More DirecTV Woes
"DirecTV, how may I help you?"
"Hi, the Bruins and Candiens are playing today at 7 p.m. Eastern, and I have the Center Ice package, so I should be able to watch it, but it is not on the schedule. It's on NESN, but nowhere else, and I don't get NESN."
"Let me check that, sir. ... Sir, that game is on Tuesday."
"No, it's not."
"Let me send you to a specialist."
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"DirecTV, how may I help you?"
"Hi, the Bruins and Candiens are playing today at 7 p.m. Eastern, and I have the Center Ice package, so I should be able to watch it, but it is not on the schedule. It's on NESN, but nowhere else, and I don't get NESN."
"Let me check that, sir. ... Sir, that game is on Tuesday."
"No, it's not. Really."
"Let me check again, sir. ... That game is on NESN and Center Ice channel 770."
Now, Center Ice channel 770 shows Caps and Flyers. So I am assuming that they didn't even know there was a game today -- deduced from the fact that the two people I talked to told me there was no game today -- and were not planning on making it available until I called.
I hope it's actually shown ... I'll find out in about five hours.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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