If so then it would be Direct/Root keeping me from watching the Blazers on my DISH. Groovy. I wish Paul Allen hadn't closed down his ill-fated sports network and sold off all its assets. It seemed like their startup was poorly timed and managed, and their timing in folding up and selling out was worse. IIRC, Paul really took a bath on that one.
Root Sports Northwest is based in Seattle, but tips it's hat to Portland at Times. Just like the Mariners are popular in Portland and we can watch all the games on Root, I suspect it wouldn't be bad to carry the Blazers games in Seattle... Not the same by any means.
Root is on all three of the providers, basically it's the same as FSN, which is what is perfect for us...
Uh let me clarify. They always show sporting events I want to see (When in season); typically they have Northwest teams playing on the channel. Timbers, Mariners, etc. They sometimes show Beaver games on there too, or they have before, I can't remember if they do this year since I've been mainly seeing Beavs at bar/pubs. Either way, I get ROOT sports on DirecTV and if they pick up the Blazers that's a WIN for me because at this point I don't get Comcast Sports NW on DTV. And let me explain my f'CSNNW sentiment. See for us normal folk that only know from what we see on the broadcast, CSNNW is Comcast. And Comcast sucks. Terrible price, Terrible customer service, and they have a monopoly on our beloved Blazers. So while, you may not be ran by Comcast, its in your name. So if I never came to this forum and read that you are ran by NBC or whatever, how would we know otherwise?
I don't think anyone would disagree that live sports are king. But there are still many many hours of programming to fill. That goes for all sports networks.
I know the Timbers TV contract is up......A way to make CSN more attractive to Dish and DirecTV would be to land THAT contract! Actually have some LIVE content.
This. Good idea, maybe get more local sporting events to kill time too like big HS games (Basketball and Football) and less Beach Volleyball, Tennis and Watersports (from what I remember CSNNW playing on weekends). Maybe more courtside episodes (doesn't always have to be Mike and Mike).
Local HS sports is where it's at for them. Cheap to broadcast and would have a ton of interest. Do what ASCN did and I would switch from Direct to CSN.
