This is an absolute, flat-out lie. Outside of the 150 mile radius is Comcast's Blackout radius, which covers a much, much wider area. Why are the Blazers being intentionally incorrect?
I agree with Sarah being wrong on this. All of Washington is considered a Blazer and Jazz blackout. No League Pass (even if you can get it), no League Pass Broadband, no Blazers' games or Jazz games without CSNNW (or the national networks). And no, I don't know why.
I know that the blackout applies down here, which is around twice the so called 150 mile radius, i hope that doesn't screw me out of being able to stream the comcast games on the Blazers site if a deal ever gets done...
Wait...so the big streaming thing was them streaming KGW games, in the area that already receives KGW over the air in the first place? Wow, how magnanimous of the Blazers. Charging fans to watch a game they can watch on free over the air telecasts.On tv, which are probably bigger screens. And you don't need internet to watch. And probably have better sound. Whats next, charging fans to listen to the games on the radio? Couldn't those people already get a wintv type program and hook up tv to their laptop or desktop and watch the games there?
Considering they told us, 2 years ago, that it might take 7-10 games before the comcast thing got settled, you'll have to excuse me if I don't buy that deadline as anything more than them placing a brand new carrot at the end of the rope, trying to get fans to bite. sorry if I'm jaded, but for the Blazers to say anything will happen with comcast within my lifetime, has become pretty meaningless at this point.
The "entire season" being 15 games? Wow. At first, I hoped streaming the games would put pressure on Comcast to make a deal with their competitors (the Satellite companies) to broadcast the games. But how exactly is the Blazers working out a deal with Comcast for Comcast to "allow" the Blazers to broadcast (stream) THEIR OWN GAMES beginning next year going to help resolve the broadcast issue? It won't. If that happens, it would seem to weaken the value of the product (the right to broadcast CSNW) to the Satellite companies, and with Comcast purposely overpricing the product to reduce competition from the satellite companies in the first place, at this point it is more like the Blazers colluding with Comcast to reduce competition than the Blazers putting pressure on Comcast to make the games available to other providers. Color me pissed. I blame the Blazers.
no I just was going off the match of 40 bucks for only 15 games... $2.66 a game average X the 67 remaining games. Just some estimating math, and I'm posting it cause the cost irritates me lol.
I called the Trail Blazers front office and they said that all non ABC first round playoff games will be streamed online at www.trailblazers.com http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/stream_video_faq_2009_10_13.html
Do you want me to send HCP down south to wipe your ass for you also? Click on the link I posted. All the info you need is there.
