Yes, I think so. Honestly once they went with root I stopped paying attention to who carried it and just started clicking the free links. The Blazers obviously don't care if people do that or they would make it easier to stream games.
You can continue regardless. You may choose not to, but that would be your choice. That would probably serve them right...
This might be the 74th time I've typed this....last time.... the Blazers don't control the stream. That's a ROOT situation. ROOT makes it easy or hard to stream. There, done.
It is absolutely archaic that we can't just pay to stream from the league directly. These individual contracts that the teams have with local providers is old fashioned and stupid. Other major sports allow you to just pay for the league service and be done with it.
bunch of sources have been talking about it for years. here's one article i saw this summer. https://theathletic.com/3369596/2022/06/16/nba-broadcast-deal-mls-apple/ some snippets: Media consultant Ed Desser, a former NBA senior executive who has negotiated TV rights deals for teams across several major league teams and organizations, said the MLS deal is a “landmark” for the sports broadcast industry and noted a few elements could affect how the NBA structures its next media deals. He predicts there will be more streaming, perhaps centralized game production, and NBA League Pass could be folded in some way into the national deals. And the notion of Apple as a legitimate potential sports media partner is further cemented. “The media business has to be in the service of that,” he said. Apple or Amazon may bid on NBA media rights because they believe bundling games with their core products and services will move the profit needle. Those tech giants certainly can afford to get more into sports: Apple reported $365 billion in 2021 revenue while Amazon’s was $469.8 billion. Whatever the NBA ultimately does, Crakes said he expects to see more streaming and probably with multiple partners, but nothing as radical as MLS-Apple TV.
Another: https://frontofficesports.com/nba-streaming-exclusive-package/ Amazon has made it clear it wants an NBA package along with the NFL, said one source. Amazon just signed a deal to stream 87 live games, including playoff games, in Brazil during the 2022-2023 season. LeBron James, the league’s biggest star, will co-host an alternate stream of TNF for Amazon during the Green Bay Packers-Tennessee Titans game on Nov. 17 “Amazon is locked and loaded for a shot at the NBA,” said a source. NBA owners are chomping at the bit to enter the growing direct-to-consumer sports market. Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer just launched his own streaming platform dubbed “ClipperVision.”
Yeah they've been talking about it for 20 years. Thought you heard something recently. It will be here one day I'm sure.
Reading is fundamental. That would be all month for all my televisions that my wife and kids watch in all rooms also.
Blazers signed the deal with Root. They weren't forced to do that. They CHOSE to do that. They can CHOOSE who they sign with next. I will encourage people to watch games the most convenient way possible. I assume the Blazers don't care how the game is consumed, since they CHOSE to sign with Root. I'm not attacking the Blazers. It is disappointing that they didn't learn from the prior Comcast deal. But again, since they don't care, I don't care.
if you didn't care, you'd just let it go and subscribe to a service that carries the game though right?
Why would I do that? Why would I spend money I don't need to on a service I don't want or need? Why wouldn't I talk about it in a Blazer forum, specifically in a thread about how shady, expensive, and lacking the official streaming services are?
Hold on, your DON'T need a service that lets you watch the Blazer games? Now I'm confused holmes. And YOU were the one in the above post whop said you don't care". Either get the service or don't. Your choice.
And I suggest you take your own advice. And let me remind you that you are the one who brought up the per game calculation.
So then who sold the rights to broadcast the teams games to Root? I get that Root controls it now, but the Blazers had some say in how that deal occurred unless Root held a gun to their heads and said the poor, helpless Blazers had no say in the details of the sale and how the games would be distributed? It seems that is people's frustrations. It's less easy to get now than it was before and if you are in Vancouver, it has been reported it can be even more difficult.
blackout restrictions unfortunately still apply for NFL game pass and MLB TV also. As I have been saying for years, that is the real problem here. And it's hard to identify who the real culprit is that came up with such ideas, especially in a world where streaming rules. Is it the networks (Root/Bally/etc)? Is it the leagues? Is it the service provider (Comcast/Direct TV/etc)? Whoever it is, I just hope the new TV deal is a step in the right direction in removing this nonsense. Maybe even keep a hybrid setup to placate Turner/ESPN by blacking out only national TV games. NBA Team Pass this year to watch one team was $89 without the discounts. This is perfect for out of market fans. They just ran a black friday deal for all of LP (every game for every team minus TNT/ESPN/NBATV games) for $49 for the season. That is an insanely cheap price even without the deal. If every game was available IN MARKET without blackouts, I bet you they would get so many more subscribers.
No Brother that line is absolutely no where in the post i responded to. Which was in response to my post. You said AND I QUOTE!
