“The current RSN (regional sports network) model is fundamentally broken, ” said Brian Neylon, group president of DISH TV, in a statement provided to KGW. “This model requires nearly all customers to pay for RSNs when only a small percentage of customers actually watch them. ” ROOT Sports Northwest posted on their website, saying in part, "During our renewal conversations, we proposed a very favorable deal for DISH that other large distributors have accepted. DISH Network was only willing to engage on very non-standard terms to continue distributing the Networks.
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"They have a larger footprint, but I don't know if that footprint changes too much in Portland specifically. " Before the Trail Blazers' pre-season opener against the Golden State Warriors Monday night, fans were firing back at a Blazers tweet, asking the team to make the game more widely available. Ah yea, I had almost forgot you guys made this unwatchable for a lot of Blazers fans by moving to some channel a lot of us don't even have... — Michelle (@mlinpdx) October 5, 2021 ROOT Sports Northwest is available on Comcast cable, CenturyLink and DirectTV, but was cut by DISH Network a few days prior to the Blazers game.
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No other RSN in the country has accepted the terms DISH proposed to us. " Watching Trail Blazer games on NBA League Pass, a subscription streaming service, is not an option because the games are blacked out in the Portland area. For some fans, paying for another streaming option is not in the budget. Fubo plans, for example, start at $64. 99 per month. Blazers fans have been here before. In 2007 when the Blazers signed a TV deal with Comcast SportsNet, which later became NBC Sports Northwest, the only way to watch the game was on cable. Comcast SportsNet wasn't available anywhere else at the time. Fans launched a grassroots effort to put pressure on the Trail Blazers to make their games more accessible.
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