" The Blazers have touted the partnership with ROOT as a way to bring in fans across the Pacific Northwest. The network has a long-established presence in the Seattle area. "In some ways, the Blazers want to tell you it's easier. Root Sports wants to tell you its easier, " said Mike Richman. "They have a larger footprint, but I don't know if that footprint changes too much in Portland specifically.
But ask fans who watch on DISH Network or a variety of popular streaming services and they'll tell you that's not the case. "They're not on YouTube TV, they're not on Hulu, the big service providers, " explained Mike Richman, host of the "Locked on Blazers" podcast. "They're on some small secondary streaming services like Fubo, they've reached an agreement, but they haven't started broadcasting the games.
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Blazers fans frustrated by lack of streaming options to watch gamesThe Trail Blazers' new TV partner, ROOT Sports, is not available on most online streaming services and was also cut from DISH Network's lineup. PORTLAND, Ore. — In June, the Portland Trail Blazers announced that the team had signed a multi-year deal to partner with ROOT Sports to broadcast their games. The partnership ended a 14-year relationship with NBC Sports Northwest, the previous television home of the Blazers. The deal was hyped as a move that would bring the Blazers broadcast into more homes.
“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. No other RSN in the country has accepted the terms DISH proposed to us.
" 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. “The current RSN (regional sports network) model is fundamentally broken, ” said Brian Neylon, group president of DISH TV, in a statement provided to KGW.
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