The Time-Warner objection was that they offered both to have NFL a-la-carte and on a sports tier, and the NFL said no to anything-but-basic, and their price is very high for a channel with one football game per week and a bunch of filler (i.e. not remotely as attractive as a multi-sports channel like ESPN).
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The Time-Warner objection was that they offered both to have NFL a-la-carte and on a sports tier, and the NFL said no to anything-but-basic, and their price is very high for a channel with one football game per week and a bunch of filler (i.e. not remotely as attractive as a multi-sports channel like ESPN).