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  1. occassia
    occassia
    Posts: 103

    Posted 01/29/2011 5:19 PM

    As of midnight yesterday, cable giant Comcast acquired NBC Universal. Although the FCC required, as a condition of its approval, that Comcast offer its sports networks to competitors, it failed to secure any means of enforcing the requirement.

    Our Blazers games are still held hostage.

    I had a long chat this afternoon with a guy in DirecTV sales. He was about the third level up the chain when I called the sales department. Neither he, nor any of his subordinates, nor yet the folks from Qwest (from whom I would acquire a satellite package) had any idea that, even though you can "get Comcast Sportsnet" in the DTV sports package, Portland fans are still blacked out for two-thirds of Blazer games.

    He lives in Los Angeles and, although a Lakers fan, he admires our team a lot. We talked about Brandon's knees, the value of teamwork vs. star players, and Rip City's hope that the L-Train would be arriving in Los Angeles Union Station sometime soon.

    When our situation was explained to him: "!@#$?!," he said. "You guys can't watch your own team? It ought to be free."

    Spoken like a true basketball fan. Thanks, LA dude, I couldn't agree more.

    For more background, see my blog post Hungry Monster


    I am a fan of really, really, really fun basketball!
  1. blazerdarren77
    blazerdarren77
    Posts: 215

    Posted 01/30/2011 12:12 AM

    that's technology at its finest.
    I am a fan of
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