Anyone know why this is? NHL wants people streaming to buy their league pass type product or something?
Yes ... or get the games on Prime, which sounds like it will only be for people in WA, OR and ID. KGW (on purpose) doesn't say this in their press release but there is not a chance in hell NBC is letting them preempt programming for Kraken games along with KREM and KING. It gets great buzz to say they are airing the games but don't let you in on the fine print. You can get an antenna pretty cheap and can actually get quite a few random channels on there if you really don't want to pay for cable/streamer. But the days of KGW showing Blazer games (or any other) on the main station just in Portland is pretty much gone. We are a small market down here and had to fight tooth and nail to get NBC to let us pre-empt programming on one Saturday night (a bad evening for prime time TV) a year for the biggest football game in the city to air.
Good info there. "The rate hike from comcast..cost the Blazers 66% of their comcast subscribers and 50% of their overall cable base."
