Full article, much of it is specific to the Mariners https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-mariners-root-sports-comcast-spending-payroll-owner-john-stanton-winning-54-percent-of-games-postseason-fubo-tmobile-park-games-general-manager-jerry-dipoto-mlb-streaming#
>When asked if the franchise would offer ROOT Sports direct to consumers, he said “We got direct to consumer on FUBO,” adding “We’d like to do more. We’re restricted by the agreements that we inherited from ROOT that it had with Comcast and other companies that limit the number of alternatives that we can have. But our number one priority, Chris, our number one priority is for his many fans to be able to watch Mariner programming.”
>Stanton went on to say there is no a la carte option to offer the channel directly to fans for, say $19.99 or $24.99 a month.
>“We’re restricted under our agreements with Comcast or ROOT is restricted under its agreements with Comcast, that affects the Mariners from doing more,” Stanton said. “We hope to do more, we’re going to continue to work on that.”
>He also said that such a service would actually “be a new revenue source for us, and it would increase our total resources we have available.”
by SiccSemperTyrannis
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TLDR- he’d like for Root to have a standalone streaming plan, but they can’t offer one due to existing contracts with Comcast and other traditional TV companies.
Sure sounds like a problem that won’t get solved anytime soon.
Glad I picked FUBO randomly when I was looking for TV options to connect to my ESPN+ account to watch Kraken Hockey after we got rid of cable…
I had no idea what it was and lucked into being able to watch all Kraken and Mariner games out here in the east coast