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Flipping through the channel guide at my mother's house in upstate New York recently, I was startled. Her Time Warner Cable package includes the Pac-12 Networks. All of them. The national feed and all six regional networks.

Because of the package she subscribes to so she can watch all New York Mets games, my mother — who has absolutely no interest in the Pac-12 — can see more of it than folks here in Utah. And that's not going to change anytime soon.

• Comcast offers subscribers the Pac-12 Network as part of one of its most basic packages. But it's only one channel — Pac-12 Mountain, which focuses on Utah and Colorado.

That's great if you're a fan of the Utes or the Buffs, but if you're, say, a transplanted UCLA fan, you're going to miss a lot of Bruins games in everything other than football.

According to a Comcast rep, there are no plans to add more channels locally.

(All football games air on all P12N channels. The same is not true of other sports, including men's basketball.)

• Dish Network offers P12N in its America's Top 120+ package — without paying extra for a sports package — in Utah and the other five states where Pac-12 schools reside.

Unfortunately, if you're a Ute fan, that means the only Utah events you're guaranteed to see are football games. Not all the other events — including men's basketball — air on the national feed.

According to a Dish Network rep, there are no plans to change that.

• DirecTV does not carry the Pac-12 Networks in any way, shape or form. According to a DirecTV rep, that's never going to change.

Just kidding! DirecTV did not say it's NEVER going to change, but there are no plans to do so.

DirecTV wants to make P12N an a la carte channel. Rather than add it to a programming package and pass along the cost to all its subscribers, DirecTV has proposed that if you want it, you order it at a set monthly fee.

(Yes, BYU fans, you're paying to support the Pac-12 if you have the channel. No, Utah fans, you're not paying for BYUtv, which is given to cable/satellite systems for free.)

P12N continues to refuse DirecTV's offer, arguing that it would be treated differently than every other sports channel. That's not entirely true — it's certainly a different model than the Big Ten Network, the SEC Network or ESPN, but it is like NFL Sunday Ticket, MLB Extra Innings and MLS Direct Kick.

True, when you're buying NFL, MLB or MLS packages, you're paying just to see games. P12N is arguably more like ESPN in that it has studio shows and hundreds of live events over the course of a programming year.

But DirecTV argues that there's no great hunger out there for the vast majority of the live events on P12N. Football — yes. Men's college basketball — yes.

Everything else — not so much. Although P12N doesn't release ratings, there clearly isn't a huge outcry from fans of other sports that would carry the day.

That's not a reflection on the quality of the sports or on the quality of P12N's production, which is superior. But would anyone be surprised if a devoted Utah fan/DirecTV subscriber paid to subscribe to P12N from September-November for football and December-March for men's basketball — and then dropped it until football season rolled around again?

The Pac-12 Networks don't want to deal with that.

In other words, nothing new to report on the DirecTV front. Still.

Scott D. Pierce covers television for The Salt Lake Tribune . Email him at spierce@sltrib.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce.