Notice How to watch root sports without cable

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  1. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    no contract but doesn't change things.
     
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    They don't expect their fans to not watch any other TV, so because you're such a small percentage of their potential customer base there are no options for you. If they allowed you to have team pass in market then they wouldn't be able to offer ROOT exclusive in market broadcasting rights. If ROOT offered an individual Blazers stream then they couldn't sell TV providers on the idea that ROOT is a big piece of the package that those companies can sell in this market. Sorry, it's a pirate's life for you.
     
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    with the way the Blazers are looking so far maybe its a blessing I can't watch and perhaps I will not bother for a while - let them prove to me they are a solid team before I mess around and change my streaming to get ROOT. I know its preseason but so far it appears a disaster
     
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    Im gonna go the vpn route once the season starts. But ya I'm sol
     
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    So the games are blacked out?
     
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    im not understanding this and cant find info on it.
    Are they implying att/dtv are blacking out the local areas? Meaning that those within a certain range wont get the game, regardless of having dtv with root sports?


    Also blacking out areas when games are sold out, is complete bs.
     
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    The FUBO announcement is what I was teasing.
     
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    The tweet you guys are talking about literally has nothing to do with us. It's about them picking up at&t sports rocky mountain for another media market all together. Notice it talking about the Jazz and Golden Knights.
     
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    thanks. I thought maybe it was “those are the options” because our game would be blocked out and replaced with one of those two.
     
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    Hmm I noticed on Spectrum the guide said the Kraken game was on but it's playing a college football rerun instead so I checked Twitter and a lot of Spectrun users are saying the same thing, so I checked Root's websites and it said the same thing about the Blazers, no access to them like the Kraken, so I'm assuming we're all screwed out of Blazer games with Spectrum. I guess it's sailing time for me too.
     

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    @THE HCP can correct me on this but as of right now the only providers that are carrying the ROOT Sports package that gets you the Kraken and Blazers are Comcast, Directv, Directv Stream (formerly at&t tv) and fuboTV. If anyone knows of more please make it known but that's my understanding Comcast, both types of Directv and fubo. To be clear that's a ton of the market being covered.
     
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    Totally agree. I can see blacking them out if they are not sold out but when they are sold out the games should not be blacked out.
     
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    I'd assume whoever has the local contract, in the Blazers example root, has the local streaming rights.
     

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