I had this sort of thing happen once, where I called DTV and asked about the channel. The nice chick at Comcast said “Yeah, we added the Sportsnet channel.” My heart raced and my palms got sweaty and I said “are you sure it’s NW?” “Ohhhhhhh, I’m sorry sir, it’s Comcast Sportsnet West.”

Comcast paid over $100M for the Blazers, do you expect them to give it away? Comcast has made deals with Verizon, its most direct competitor, and several small cable companies. BendBroadband says Comcast is asking $2.00 a month from its Preferred Digital Package customers for CSNNW (they currently pay $47.95) and its other customers wouldn’t be affected at all. Dish Network is refusing to pay for CSNNW and it’s still getting your money. Dish Network is not giving you what you want because they make more money that way. They are laughing while you and Canzano complain about Comcast. So who’s “The greedy behemoth”?

        Unlike the Willamette Valley, we don’t have an
alternative cable company. Charter is our exclusive
cable company here in the Rogue Valley (majority
owned by PA) and the sattelite companies are no help.
Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of Ashland has
COINCAST Sports NW on their little dinky cable system.
Sucks x 1,000,000.
     Time to step it up a NOTCH !

     DOWN WITH COINCAST, CHARTER & THE SATS !
Love the team, but the Blazers business management needs
a new brain !

are those who don’t have access to comcast cable. if you’re somewhere in the state where comcast doesn’t provide coverage, that sucks man, I feel for you and I would hope comcast would extend its network at some point. but if you are a local who just chooses to have dish over comcast? why would anyone feel sorry for you? just get comcast. its their freaking channel. if it weren’t for comcast, we’d be forced to weed through mariners and big 12 college football games on FSN…god I hate that channel almost as much as I hated listening to 1080.
seriously, dish companies are just as guilty when it comes down to it. and for those of you who have no choice, sorry for the rant!

Are those damn ads of theirs, where they show you a great highlight from the Blazers, Ducks, etc. and then cut into a snowy screen and in the most condescending and jerkish and pissy manner tell you that YOU need to contact your provider to get Comcast. GEE, YA THINK?! You don’t think we’ve done that? Strike a deal already!

It’s like giving you a birthday cake and then throwing it in your face while pissing on your brand new Nikes. Jerks,

Even though I ain’t anywhere near Portland, it doesn’t apply to me, and I will always get League Pass because I wanna watch other teams too, the BLACK OUT that applies to people who have NO ACCESS to Comcast in the first place really bugs me.

Even if the channel eventually gets picked up by other providers, the fact a lot of people who don’t live anywhere close to Portland get the home games blacked out on League Pass and have no way to get Comcast (and thus, are forced to change their provider to a satellite, if a deal is ever struck with them) is incredibly unfair, and makes no sense in the short or long term.

I understand a good deal needs to be struck for the deal to make sense. But to STILL have a black out radius for areas that cannot possibly get the channel in any way is just flat out DUMB.

Even if ya get League Pass, the home games are blacked out.

It just encourages people to watch illegal feeds, when most everyone is willing to pay to watch the games if they only could have access. The fact that it is easier for me in Los Angeles to watch every Blazer game, than someone 40 miles outside of Portland with no access to Comcast, puts bees in my britches.

THIS TEAM IS TOO AWESOME TO BE MISSED.

Mortimer