Imagine the advantage that a carrier could get if they were the only one to pick up a channel that includes local teams that many have a history of following. Given the Barron report on the asking price, if it were not true, one would think CSN would have been vocal about that to gain an advantage in public opinion and put pressure on the carriers. Instead...crickets. I may be too trusting of the providers, but you are way too trusting of Comcast, who has a pretty poor reputation for shady business.
That is the point dude, you are watching the games and then trying to tell the rest of us who can't watch them how to react to this whole thing. **** off
This is a thread for everyone to discuss the CSN issue, not merely for people who don't have it to b**** unchecked. That last line ("I enjoyed watching the game last night...") was a personal dig at Batman Jones, who decided to make a non-personal discussion personal by going the 12-year-old "**** you" route. Nothing more.
That's the whole point. The providers don't realize the advantage! That's exactly why fans need to scream from the hilltops to both sides and make them realize what an edge it would be. Customers need to show demand! As for CSN, why would they need to refute it? CSN's leverage is that they have the games of the professional Houston sports teams. Their PR campaign is self-explanatory. It's the providers who have a more complex assignment -- to explain why they don't offer customers the opportunity to watch Houston teams. As a result, they have the most motivation to "leak" a price, true or false.
As the poll shows, most people blame CSN. They are losing the battle for public opinion. That is why they wold refute such a report if it were, in fact, inaccurate. The longer this goes on, the worse it is for the teams that comprise ownership of CSN.
Why do they need public opinion? Public opinion means much less to CSN than it does to the providers. For the providers, it's a huge deal. If public opinion turns against them, customers can go somewhere else (in Houston, Comcast). For CSN, what do they have to lose? Their PR campaign is quite simple - they have the games. Now yes, over the long-haul, CSN would eventually need public opinion on their side to provide additional pressure to providers, or else the contract terms would have to be reworked. But we're three months into this dispute, and that's something that would probably require a stalemate of multiple years. In the here and now, providers have much more motivation to play the media game and "leak" certain bits of information to try and keep public sentiment on their side.
Screw it, the picture on First Row is better than the one we watched on My20 for years. I'll be fine without the corporate pissing match. Free is good.
The quality on some of these streams actually surprise me sometimes. Lately most streams haven't been choppy. And if anyone lives outside the Houston area, but doesn't have League Pass, the Lakers at Rockets game will be on NBATV Fan Night on the 8th (next Thursday).
It's been 10 days since I posted in this thread. Kindly get back on your meds or shut the **** up, drama queen. I'm officially happy you can't watch the Rockets and hope you never can again.
Just realized I forgot to reply to this part: Actually, I'm not trusting of CSN. I know they're a typical greedy corporate business, and they need to have their feet held to the fire. You're right about that. The difference between us is that I think the same is also true of cable providers, and the only way to get a get a deal done is to ultimately pressure both sides.
According to wikipedia it's Comcast, Coastal Link, En-Touch, Phonoscope, and Consolidated Communications.
You guys can both go to hell. It's no wonder to me that The Cat was banned for so long from the GARM or that RM95 was so long banned from the D&D. I regret ever speaking on his behalf to Clutch. Nice below the belt dig by the way, 95. I take my meds every day and spend about 33% of my take home pay on treatment. I struggle every day with a serious illness for which the mortality rate is over 20%. It's not something to make fun of or to use in an argument, any more than anyone else's illness. Why not make fun of leukemia? I guess you deserved it when your wife left you too. (Hahaha.) Prick.
