Yeah, dig in folks. It's going to be a long time before this is resolved. Probably years.... My buddy - a HUGE Astros fan who doesn't care about the Rockets - just emailed me and said he has Dish and won't be able to watch Astros games this year. I think this is the first he's heard of all this, LOL... He suggested I go to that I want my CSN website and sign their petition. Needless to say, I had to set him straight... Seriously, it was like Neo first waking up in The Matrix. He had NO CLUE.
Well this is good. I have the app on my iphone and I will certainly check this out tonight. Thanks man
Seems like a lot of so called "huge Astros and Rockets fans" really didn't/don't know what's going on. I refuse to believe this will take years though
The game comes on NBATV tonight, so you will get a chance. Also, if you have the genie, for some reason the app doesn't automatically detect it. Go into the settings, and find the IP address of your genie and enter it manually. Then it will populate NBATV streaming and you can watch the game.
Channel 13 did a report on this yesterday evening, interviewing pissed fans and everything at TC. After they interviewed the head douche from Comcast, one can tell a deal might not happen for a loooong while. Whatever, I'll come here to watch recaps from Clutch and watch League Pass for the Thunder games. Sucks so bad that this greed has ruined our passion. Even the people being interviewed were die hards, and they were saying "Out of sight, out of mind. I've just found other things to do and I won't attend a game until this is resolved." This is a friggin' no win for anyone in Houston. 'Cept Comca$h customers.
Comcast voted the 10th least reputable company in 2012. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/2013 RQ Summary Report FINAL.pdf
The Allstar break is a prime opportunity for the rockets and csn to push for a deal. They can capitalize on all the pomp of the game being in town. Rally the fan base for the home stretch, and be up and going before the Astros begin. This is the probably the last chance for an "all's well that ends well" scenario, IMO. I'm not optimistic, but my fingers are crossed.
I think if we're still in playoff contention towards the end of the season then ESPN will pick up a few games and if we do make the playoffs then we should be able to watch a few games on ESPN/TNT.
i thought when it was the playoffs games on nba tv are NOT blacked out! because it used to be like that during the yao-tmac days
I've come to the conclusion, Dallas must be behind this. All I get to see is Mavericks games...and soon Rangers games.
http://blog.chron.com/sportsmedia/2...he-continuing-csn-houston-carriage-stalemate/ The last 1/3rd of the post talks about CSN. Still not good
Mr. Crane knows the Astros will suck and he will bleed money for another year, maybe two. His plan is to rebuild the team's value over the very long term. It might actually be in his best financial interest to keep the Astros off TV while they suck and not bring them back to the wider audience until the interest is building rather than receding. He holds out for the better long term return from Uverse and Direct TV and minimizes the images of suckage.
I don't think so. You need exposure, especially when you're selling a new product. I don't he is approaching this season thinking, "man, I hope no one watches!" even if we can joke about that here.
Posting so it's easy to read here: Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t at least mention my brief conversation Wednesday with Matt Hutchings, who runs CSN Houston. The beginning of baseball season ups the ante considerably when it comes to lining up transmission deals, since MLB’s coverage area across five states is considerably larger than the area in which CSNH can show Rockets games. As a result, not only are companies like DirecTV, AT&T U-verse, Dish Network and Suddenlink cable in the picture, so is Time Warner Cable, which has a virtual Maginot Line of cable properties along the Interstate 35 corridor in Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley, not to mention Corpus Christi and Beaumont. It’s one thing to be available in just 40 percent of your home market. But if CSN Houston can’t work a deal with Time Warner, the Astros become essentially irrelevant as they begin a daily competition with the Rangers for the hearts and minds of Texas baseball fans. “We believe baseball season will reinforce our story that we have a good product and a good channel,” Hutchings said. “We are asking to be put on (by cable, telco and satellite providers), and we should be put on. “There is a good reason to carry the channel, and we think baseball season will bring more focus and priority to these systems to move our consideration to the top of the list.” The network is in the midst of its “I Want My CSN” campaign, but you can expect a harder-edged campaign as baseball season begins and as Dynamo games begin on the network. “We have three pro teams on this network,” he said. “We have seen networks in Los Angeles with one or two pro teams, and they are getting distribution. We are just asking them to give priority to Houston. “People are demanding the channel. They say to get the deal done, and that is what we are asking. Every day, every minute, that is what we are working on.” One problem that the CSN Houston partners face is that DirecTV, Dish Network and U-verse customers generally have switched to those providers from cable. And so when CSN Houston — in effect, the cable company and its partners — attack the satellites and telcos, I think people view it as an attack on their decision to switch providers, and they don’t take kindly to it. So I wonder if stirring up anger at the satellite and telco companies is a valid strategy. As for the distributors, they are wary about increasing fees to customers, and they are particularly wary about sports networks. Of course, that didn’t stop Time Warner from committing billions to the Dodgers and Lakers. They did so in self-defense, because if they hadn’t made the deals, Fox Sports would have done so. But they are still going to be passing along hefty rate increases to fans in Southern California even as they refuse to do the same in Texas. There is an additional element at work here. Time Warner Cable already has Fox Sports Southwest with the Rangers, who will be playing exactly the same schedule as the Astros. Why, they ask, should they pick up another network with the same schedule and a worse team? That’s why the move to the American League West could not have dome at a worse time for the Astros and their fans. Obviously I can’t predict if and when CSN Houston will be made available on DirecTV, U-verse, Dish, Time Warner or other cable systems. But there’s no question that the teams and the network face an uphill battle. On your behalf, if you don’t subscribe to Comcast or Phonoscope or the other systems that carry CSN Houston, I am not optimistic as the baseball season approaches and as basketball hits the NBA All-Star Game break.
Not so. The Mavs and Rangers are on Fox Sports which is still being carried by the providers. That's why you can see them. I'm on Directv and AFAIK, the Comcast Sports Networks (the East coast ones) have only been available with their sports package while Fox Sports SW & Houston have been available without having to get those packages. Besides: Please don't mention Dallas until the Jerry Jones transformation into Al Davis (the crazy old version) is completed. Then, let the snickering begin.
