"sport pack" subscribe & unsubscribe

[dfudd]

Previously posted:
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Originally Posted by paragon View Post
Just to get clarification.....say I am a consistent subscriber to HBO. If there is a college football game I want to watch this weekend, could I switch my subscription to the sports pack a few hours before the game and then switch it back to HBO following the game without incurring a penalty and still only be paying for 1 premium the entire time?

You can switch once every 24 hours without penalty. Switch to the sports pack the day before the game and then you could switch to HBO after the game. And, yes, you only pay for 1 premium the entire time."

What if there is a game on one of the sport pack channels that I want to watch. If I subscribed to the sport pack, watched the game, then unsubscribed, would there be a fee charged for unsubscribing? Is the sport pack considered the same as a premium channel and would there be a penalty for unsubscribing less than a month after subscribing?

[davring]

I believe there is a 30 day minimum requirement for any package you subscribe to and there is a early termination penalty, I believe $10.00.

[convem24]

The 30 day penality still exists. It is cheaper to keep the sports pack than pay the prorate and the $10 penalty. If you have a premium already you get the sports pack as much as $11 or as cheap as $7. Good luck either way.

[Ryan415689]

Previously posted:
"Quote:
Originally Posted by paragon View Post
Just to get clarification.....say I am a consistent subscriber to HBO. If there is a college football game I want to watch this weekend, could I switch my subscription to the sports pack a few hours before the game and then switch it back to HBO following the game without incurring a penalty and still only be paying for 1 premium the entire time?

You can switch once every 24 hours without penalty. Switch to the sports pack the day before the game and then you could switch to HBO after the game. And, yes, you only pay for 1 premium the entire time."

What if there is a game on one of the sport pack channels that I want to watch. If I subscribed to the sport pack, watched the game, then unsubscribed, would there be a fee charged for unsubscribing? Is the sport pack considered the same as a premium channel and would there be a penalty for unsubscribing less than a month after subscribing?

There is a $10 premium service cancellation charge.

[n3ntj]

I have done the SportsPack activation and cancellation in the past due to an event before a sporting event, such as the Brian Leetch retirement ceremony before a Rangers game last season. I only had NHL CI and not SportsPack and I subbed to it for a day and then cancelled online and got errors. I called D* and was able to cancel it no problem. I only had to pay the pro-rate of 1 or 2 days of SportPack. No cancellation fee.

Maybe this has changed since then, however. That was last Feb.

[joed32]

It was fairly recently that the rule changed, I don't remember the date.

[maineengineer]

If "the game" the original poster was intending to watch was part of any major professional sport outside of his local DMA, it would be blacked out in his area on the Sports Pack, unless of course he also subscribed to that sport's premium package (Sunday Ticket, Center Ice, Extra Innings, etc.) as well, defeating the purpose.

[sdk009]

If "the game" the original poster was intending to watch was part of any major professional sport outside of his local DMA, it would be blacked out in his area on the Sports Pack, unless of course he also subscribed to that sport's premium package (Sunday Ticket, Center Ice, Extra Innings, etc.) as well, defeating the purpose.

The original poster specifically asked about a college football game.

Even given that, there is no guaranty that the game would be available to a Sports Pack subscriber if it also carried on Game Plan. Some games still come through in the clear, while others get blacked out. Depends on the the conference and which out-of-area RSN(s) is/are carrying the game.