Another year of Root Sports, no streaming, same' ol same ol'?

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  1. Kano John

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    The difference is that KPTV is available on various apps like HULU and KPTV+ is not. As far as I know you need a local antenna to get KPTV+ (channel 13 if I recall).
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    It's available on youtubetv.

    https://www.kptv.com/page/where-to-find-fox-12-plus/
     
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    None of them would ... that's why down here all the baseball games we cover aren't on NBC proper station, but instead 10.2 OTA ... hence if you're just using a cable box you can't get the games. Some of the streamers might fix this by adding another channel to their stream but it's not as simple as just tuning in to KPTV. I could be completely wrong and maybe they work out a deal with FOX but highly unlikely. We tried to preempt a handful of Thursday nights for HS Football and it was a major no go from NBC, of course the NBA may be able to pull some strings and this is all moot. I just think people hear that KPTV is going to carrying the games and think it will be like KGW back in the day which I was a kid for but remember just going to channel 8 and the Blazer games were on, those days are gone.
     
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    I'm pretty sure the free Blazer games will only be available OTA. The streaming platforms will want to charge subscribers extra for the Blazer games and that throws the economics of this off.
     
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    Roku Channels app doesn't charge as far as I know. They just stream the OTA feed, including commercials, as far as I know. You can watch them as much as you want for free.
     
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    Shouldn't this thread title be changed?
     
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    I'm 99.9% sure there will not be way to watch the Blazer broadcast of games outside of the Portland metro area for free unless you use an illegal stream. The NBA would not allow that since it would take away from their NBA League Pass.
     
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    Makes sense to me.
     
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    Streaming will likely be similar to Jazz+ where you pay a fee but must be in Oregon/S. Washington region (same as jazz+). If outside the region you can buy league pass.

    Agree there won't be a free streaming option.
     
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    Merge it with the Melo thread!
     
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    Blazers region goes all the way up to Alaska rn with ROOT. Curious where the new lines will be.
     
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    You'd be VERY surprised how few people stream anything. Still a lot of old school viewers out there.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Oh YOU'RE the one!
     
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    I definitely think OTA will get them by far the most viewers
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Funny thing is, for a lot of people it wasn't. My family was able to watch Blazers games for the first time in like 15 years.
     
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    Oh YOU'RE the one!
     
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    It was always easy IF you lived in their service area and were content with being a Comcast subscriber. The fact that a large number of people are no longer satisfied with being tied to a cable company and their 250 channels that you never watch, but instead want to stream things that they do watch, left the Blazers tied to a sinking ship being hauled under by a cable anchor. The new plan of going to KPTV, which is available either via cable, streaming live TV platforms, or broadcast over the air is a much more consumer-friendly approach.
     
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    As a DirecTV customer since 2000, my family couldn’t even watch Blazer games until recently. For my family it was great.
     
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    Actually once they switched to root, MORE people could watch.
     
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    They COULD have. But that's not what actually happened.
     
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