KING 5 partner with Seattle Kraken to broadcast more than 70 games starting in 2024
KING 5 will carry more than 70 preseason, regular season and postseason games for free over the air.
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Kraken Games Moving From Root Sports To KING/KONG Next Season
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They're running on KING and KONG? The fans will go bananas for this news!
Ok when will Tegna will be open to buy the Padres games for KFMB 8.2 if they sell their CW rights to Nexstar, same as the Rockies rights to KUSA/KTVD.
How is this relevant to the main theme of the thread? This is about Seattle, not San Diego.
I meant if Tegna wants to bid more regional sports rights beyond the Kraken.
Stop hijacking threads with tangential topics.
I think KONG might carry almost all of the games because of KING's commitments with NBC.
Unless it's not affilated with a major network it will, also I'm not suprised that the majority owner of Root Sports which is the Mariners didn't have enough time to bid and continue. BTW Root Sports also has the Portland Trail Blazers, Tegna and predecessors back then carried some Blazers games on KGW but now shuttered NBCSNW wasn't on satelitte much like NBCS Philly/Phily Plus does. The good news is until the Supersonics return, the Blazers (which covers Seattle since the 2008-09 season) won't conflict with a overflow feed to carry games at the same time.
This is awesome news. Expand access to the games and make it simple for people who want to watch. This seems like a great partnership for everyone involved.
I’d love to see the Mariners return to local broadcast television as well. They used to be on KSTW when I was growing up. Sadly, that won’t happen, as the mariners own a chunk of Root Sports.
With that information in mind, it seems like Root Sports (and the mariners for that matter) have gotten increasingly greedy over the years. Fans were not happy to hear that Root was becoming more of a “premium” channel, and many had to give up watching. It’s not like the product on the field over the past twenty years warrants a ton of time and investment in paying a premium just to have access to the bare minimum.
I’d love to see the Mariners return to local broadcast television as well. They used to be on KSTW when I was growing up. Sadly, that won’t happen, as the mariners own a chunk of Root Sports.
With that information in mind, it seems like Root Sports (and the mariners for that matter) have gotten increasingly greedy over the years. Fans were not happy to hear that Root was becoming more of a “premium” channel, and many had to give up watching. It’s not like the product on the field over the past twenty years warrants a ton of time and investment in paying a premium just to have access to the bare minimum.
I agree with the exposure angle, Fordranger, but it was our "friends" at Comcast who decided to put Root on the premium tier. The Mariners were not happy about that move.
That sort of thing is happening with many cable providers in numerous markets. Having an RSN as part of popular programming tiers is driving subscriber costs up at a time when cord cutting is clobbering cable revenue. Non-sports fans complain about having to pay for RSNs they don’t want. So the video providers are moving those RSNs to higher cost tiers where only those who actually want the RSN are paying for it.
Teams might not be happy with that, but the days of forcing sports onto non-fans are coming to an end, due to skyrocketing overall programming costs.
But Premium essentially means that Root Sports was charging Comcast too much!
Possibly, but I will never absolve Comcast of anything. Ever. 
Plus Fubo manages to have Root on their regular tier. AND Comcast put Root on the highest tier the day before the start of the Kraken season, when they had some leverage.
Plus Fubo manages to have Root on their regular tier. AND Comcast put Root on the highest tier the day before the start of the Kraken season, when they had some leverage.Do think Tegna might buy another station in Idaho or Oregon because KGW or KTVB doesn't have a duopoly those markets (Idaho's Own 24/7 is not well distributed outside of OTA and Cable). I would be suprising if they gonna bump or drop CW programing on KSKN for Kraken games. Also will there be subchannels outside of Seattle? Will Tegna have to buy more stations to provide more reach in the Northwest region?
In regards to KTVB (NBC Boise), I don't think it matters because looking there using the NHL zip code lookup & typing in a Boise-area zip code, it's not in Kraken territory as they show Avalanche & Golden Knights games.
My bad so Tegna needs to add more outlets in both Oregon and Washington not just Portland & Spokane but also Eugene, Medford, Bend, & Yakima-Tri Cities.
Why do you want TEGNA to buy more stations, for the sake of ice hockey? You are aware that TEGNA was recently (and may still be) a takeover target and isn't in any position to buy any stations?
You should really think about your responses before you hit the send button.
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