And that means they'll miss 25 of the team's remaining 46 games scheduled to air on TV.

"Frustrated and cheated. That's how I feel," the 55-year-old Mount Dora resident said.

Reed, a Magic fan since moving to Lake County in the early-'90s, said he has complained to Comcast several times about it not carrying FSN but feels no one is listening.

"I've considered going to DirecTV," he said. "I just feel like we're going to be forgotten."

About 20,000 Comcast customers in Orange County do get Fox Sports Florida.

FSN spokeswoman Amy Pempel said the regional sports network would like to be included on the Comcast lineup in Lake so that everyone in Central Florida has access to Magic games and other programming. "We continue to reach out to them in hope we can get on their lineup," she said.

Comcast Lake General Manager Mike Davenport said his company can't comment on negotiations but responded by e-mail that sports is the most expensive programming on its lineup.

"Comcast believes offering expensive sports programming on its sports and entertainment package is the fairest way to provide such programming to customers, so viewers who want to watch the channel can get it, while others who prefer not to receive it are not forced to pay for it," Davenport wrote.

Sound familiar?

Yep, that's pretty much the same stance Bright House and previous cable companies took for more than 20 years before BHN and FSN finally reached a compromise on New Year's Eve.

So our advice to sports fans in Lake County: Be patient. Be very patient.

Perhaps your day will come when you can have your Magic and watch them too. Making Magic Memories

There have been many memorable off-the-court stories involving the Magic over the years, and FSN and Sun Sports take a look at some of those events in the latest edition of Inside the Magic. Hosted by Whit Watson, Inside the Magic: Characters Through The Years premieres on Fox Sports Florida tonight after the Magic-Hawks game and debuts Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Sun Sports.

Also, Magic Live, the team's half-hour pregame show hosted by Paul Kennedy, is being added to FSN broadcasts beginning tonight at 6:30.

Remote Patrol Golf Channel in focus

It's been a long time coming, but the Golf Channel finally has gone high-def. The channel is broadcasting the season's first tournament, the Mercedes-Benz Championship from Hawaii, and every event in 2009 in high definition. The Mercedes can be seen on Golf Channel from 6 to 11 p.m. today through Sunday.

Daniels/Bianchi move

After a four-month run on 1190 AM (WAMT) The Beat of Sports with Marc Daniels and Mike Bianchi is moving to 1080 AM (WHOO) beginning Monday. The show airs weekdays 9 to 11 a.m.

In case you missed it

Fox is an early favorite to win the Graphics Glitch of the Year Award after posting a mug of Gators QB Tim Tebow (right) instead of Cincinnati Bearcats starting RT Khalil El-Amin during lineup introductions for the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1.

CFB rules!

Bolstered by 22 bowl games, ESPN reports a record 250 million Americans watched at least one of its television outlets -- including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews and ESPN on ABC -- during the fourth quarter of 2008. Orlando's Champs Sports Bowl on Dec. 27 between Florida State and Wisconsin was the second-most-watched bowl game ever on ESPN (5.1 million homes).

MLB Network debuts

If you haven't sampled MLB Network, put it on your 2009 to-do list. The shows and anchors are solid and the set and graphics are good. On Tuesday, the net began re-airing Ken Burns' nine-part anthology, Baseball. It's well worth the space on your DVR -- particularly Innings 5 and 6, which take an in-depth look at how baseball helped shape the civil rights movement through integration in the late-1940s. Other shows to check out include Hot Stove, Prime 9, Epic Moments and Cathedrals of the Game.

Not in a Millen years . . .

. . . did we think former Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen would resurface anywhere in the NFL this quickly. But leave it to NBC to add the former CBS and Fox analyst (left) to its ever-growing studio panel for the Super Bowl. Sorry, but the man has no credibility right now. Not with players, not with coaches and especially not with fans. This is like CNBC hiring Bernard Madoff to provide financial advice or Fox making Milli, or Vanilli, whichever one is still alive, a judge on American Idol.