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CaptainYesterday posted:Where the gently caress is my CSN Houston? Is this the thread where we bitch about CSN Houston cause I'm gonna make myself right at home. We could talk about the future of regional sports networks and the implications of that future for the profitability of MLB/NBA teams in general. But really I just want to watch my loving Rockets on TV.
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Badfinger posted:I don't disagree that the NHL and NBA have far more seriously embraced the instant highlight packaging that youtube and other upload sites allow, however. On the other hand the NBA League Pass is seriously way behind MLB.tv and other services.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Dan LeBetard's local Miami area radio show is officially going national through ESPN on Oct. 1st Is that good or bad? I've heard a couple interviews from that show and they were pretty good. I also appreciate someone keeping Stan van Gundy on the air. But I have no opinion otherwise.
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Sep 13, 2013 04:32
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Not sure where to put this since only like 5 SAS posters care but Comcast filed for CSN Houston to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Astros are claiming they haven't been paid for the last three months and were about to pull out.
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So the CSN Houston bankruptcy hearing is going on today and some interesting stuff has been leaked over the past month. Near as I can tell, the original projections for the station were just wildly unrealistic. Houston is a football town, the Rockets were a .500 team and the Astros were (and are) terrible. But it seems they had a deal on the table with DirecTV that the Astros vetoed (the company is organized so that Comcast, Rockets, and Astros can veto any deal). And today it was revealed that if they took that deal and made it with the other providers, the station would be cash flow negative until like 2019. Maybe someone who understands MLB finances better than I do can shed some light on this, but it seems like the CSN Houston deal jacked up the sale price of the Astros before Crane bought them, and MLB teams are dependent on having big TV deals. So the Astros are probably in pretty dire financial straits at the moment, and really want to walk and sign a deal with FSSW or whoever. The Rockets and Comcast on the other hand don't need it to be immediately profitable and were willing to agree to smaller deals and prop the station up for awhile. So it seems like that was the major holdup.
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Oct 29, 2013 01:44
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First Rockets game is supposed to be on Root Sports on Monday. If you have Comcast, DirecTV or AT&T U-Verse you should be able to watch. Of course I have Dish.
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Nov 12, 2014 01:52
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Kevin Harlan is not B-Team you monster. Jackson is bad but it's really the constant axe grinding with the Warriors, which they let him cover for some bizarre reason.
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May 4, 2015 23:57
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FuzzySkinner posted:Only if Bill Burr is doing it. Ol' Billy Baker boy is funny as hell but I still fast forward through the Boston homerism and his byzantine college sports allegiances
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Dec 16, 2016 08:40
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Henchman of Santa posted:CBB has it every four minutes. The NBA seems like it's almost random. They might just have it for national games. It's definitely on local games, but NBA announcers also go to pains not to call it a commercial/TV timeout.
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Dec 29, 2016 11:43
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the international house of hot takes may have an even greater proportion of old men than the international house of pancakes
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Feb 5, 2017 01:07
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The Astros/Rockets thing was a disaster from the beginning.
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Troy Queef posted:Beadle is replacing Sage Steele on NBA Countdown. I don't pay much mind to ESPN commentary but they both seem kinda bland and inoffensive?
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Apr 4, 2017 23:26
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I completely forgot about that airport thing somehow.
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Spoeank posted:I chase rear end. I hope that tweet becomes admissible evidence in a court case
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May 12, 2017 19:12
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FuzzySkinner posted:Can we rip on the ABC/ESPN NBA coverage guys? I like Doris Burke. JVG is okay with me but I get that he's annoying. The rest of em really stink. e: oh and for PBP guys Kevin Harlan is my favorite ever. chunkles fucked around with this message at 22:44 on May 17, 2017 |
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May 17, 2017 22:34
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I'd pay Kevin Harlan to narrate the most embarassing moments of my life. I want to run out on a football field shirtless right now.
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May 18, 2017 01:41
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That Dwight Howard tweet is probably the best thing he's ever done
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Jun 16, 2017 03:08
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Crazy Ted posted:Go full Aussie Rules and make it 18 v 18. And no timeouts
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Jul 9, 2017 03:23
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god bless america gives me traumatic flashbacks to going to public school in texas
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Aug 19, 2017 23:27
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i wonder what it's like to live next to the bellevue police sting operation condo
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Sep 2, 2017 22:56
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Crazy Ted posted:LOL to imagine that all the ESPN excess and subsequent bloodletting occurred because John Skipper was showing up to work shitfaced. So we should definitely let a bunch of contributors go to pay Woj a million dollars when his main thing is breaking news on twitter? Skipper: *nods out*
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Dec 19, 2017 02:08
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lol dave pasch "well here's the starting five" without missing a beat
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Feb 26, 2018 04:16
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Astros, Leslie Alexander could owe Comcast $54 million or more https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Astros-Leslie-Alexander-could-owe-Comcast-54-12799024.php This is still going on lol
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Apr 3, 2018 01:39
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Kibner posted:Hasn't this been a thing for like 10 years now or some ridiculous length of time? Reading the wikipedia it's apparently been going on forever, but the move onto Comcast Sportsnet Houston (and total failure to get any provider to pick it up) was in 2012, and the bankruptcy happened like a year after that lol. I guess it's been lurking in court ever since
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Apr 3, 2018 02:22
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I enjoyed watching like 1 g league game a year on YouTube and when they moved to Facebook, I stopped. Privacy violations aside it's a lovely website and I don't want to have to use it for anything.
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Apr 27, 2018 06:20
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the people demand doris burke on color commentary
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Jun 8, 2018 02:59
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:What is ESPN going to talk about now that the Lebron deal is done, Baseball? settle in for four years of talking about the los angeles lakers
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Jul 2, 2018 01:58
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at least magic isn't on tv this time till he gets fired anyway
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Jul 2, 2018 08:32
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can james dolan ban players from going on a radio station lol
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Oct 23, 2018 02:08
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I wonder how much of that is attributable to what they're talking about and how much of it is just the continued death of TV
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Nov 22, 2018 23:01
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Edward Mass posted:Holy poo poo, AT&T SportsNet Southwest picked up another distributer! It’s fubo, but still! I tried the trial but man gently caress paying $44 a month to watch basketball games and nothing else. I will stick with grainy illegal streams that have a twitch chat full of racism and ads for casinos
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Feb 21, 2019 07:05
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meanwhile, classless reggie miller leaves him hanging and refuses to complete the call.
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Feb 22, 2019 03:58
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as a rockets fan i'm contractually obligated to like jeff van gundy.
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May 5, 2019 00:28
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gotta do something to compete with overwatch league this seems like a good idea to pitch my nba adult simulcast which is just squeaky shoes and no commentary
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Jun 1, 2019 21:28
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wait what i think jvg may be banned from entering texas for this
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Jun 6, 2019 03:30
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Henchman of Santa posted:He lives in Houston! which means he has to drive past like 5 taquerias and taco trucks to get to a taco bell it's a truly distressing statement
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Jun 6, 2019 03:51
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Henchman of Santa posted:To be fair nobody goes to Taco Bell to get a good taco. They go there because they want Taco Bell. i'm cancelling my fots album preorder  😛
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Jun 6, 2019 19:19
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idk who that is but i fully support anyone and everyone dunking on chris broussard
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Jul 10, 2019 07:10
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm only vaguely familiar with Broussard but I enjoy Jay and Dan. as the article said broussard is so loving lovely that even espn kicked him off, think about that
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the count of monte twitto starring demarcus cousins
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