between comcast who created the product and doesn’t want to give it away for free and satellite companies who don’t want to overpay (by the way, does anyone else here ever wonder if this whole issue is super magnified by all of us as blazer fans on this site? I mean, it consumes those of us who are involved but sometimes I wonder if the dish companies actually give a crap. ask yourself if you were a high ranking executive of one of these huge corporations if you would care if a few thousand oregonians can’t watch a few basketball games). if anything, I would prefer comcast to stop spending money on these ads and instead use the money to expand their coverage at least throughout OREGON. then there will no longer be an argument and they can pretty much tell the dish companies to suck it. blazer fans will have a simple and clear choice, watch the blazers, or be stubborn and not watch the blazers. either way, this whole ridiculous argument could end.

They probably get it free from some partnership with Oregonlive. If they’re paying for it, it is still probably cheaper than a night at the game.

Comcast shouldn’t have been allowed to purchase such a huge contract if they are not able to provide the goods.

Comcast is not able to searve my area. I can’t just purchase comcast at a whim.

this whole deal stunk the day larry put his pen to the paper.

And it is $2.00 per customer – for everyone, regardless of if they want the channel or not. Given that Prineville has a lot of retired people living here, there’s no way that they will ever go for that with so many people on fixed incomes. If there were the simple solution of placing this channel in a sports package, or even charging $3-5 just for access to that one channel I would at least have the option of watching these games.

My annoyance with the ads (including on television) is this:

1) The implication that it is my fault/responsibility for Comcast to get its channel on my airwaves. The ads basically ask me to be a negotiator, with my only leverage being threats against my local provider which is stuck in a difficult position. I am the person being leveraged here, and that makes me angry as a fan.

2) That Comcast is spending money – television, internet, and radio – pushing this on me, when there ought to be other reasonable solutions catered to communities like mine. Comcast should be able to figure out how to get this done without leveraging me in the process.

is they have reached the levels of both saturation and annoyance to the point where not only will I not be switching from my beloved dish to their service, I actually went further and canceled my internet through them. Yes, specifically because their ads were so annoying. No other reason. Not bad pricing, not bad service, just because they annoyed me with the tone of their ads.