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Husky fans with satellite TV had better buy a ticket to the season opener Saturday against San Diego State because the game most likely won't be on the screen. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Pac-12, DirecTV squabble leaves fans out in the cold

BY Chris Sullivan  on August 31, 2012 @ 4:46 am (Updated: 9:46 am - 8/31/12 )

Husky fans with satellite TV had better buy a ticket to the season opener Saturday against San Diego State because the game most likely won't be on the screen.

The Husky game is being broadcast on the fledgling Pac-12 Network which isn't available for DirecTV and Dish Network customers. Those satellite providers have refused to join the network. That means Pac-12 fans with those plans will miss out on 35 conference games unless a deal can be reached.

Saturday's game at CenturyLink Field is the only Husky game currently scheduled on the Pac-12 Network so it might not be an issue for much of the season when games will be available on other networks.

This week, the Pac-12 sent an open letter to all its fans encouraging them to switch providers.

The game will air on Comcast and other providers in the state.

There are still plenty of tickets available for the game if you want to catch it in person.

Chris Sullivan, KIRO Radio Reporter
Chris loves the rush of covering breaking news and works hard to try to make sense of it all while telling stories about real people in extraordinary circumstances.
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  • Burn_Notice wrote...
    Switch providers for one game?
    August 31, 2012 6:38 am
    The PAC-12 must be high. BTW you Tools at the PAC-12, A great deal of those DirecTV and Dish customers are under contract. Switch providers.. laughable.
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  • Brian Oblivion wrote...
    No choice here
    August 31, 2012 8:14 am
    There is no cable to subscribe to in our rural area, it's satellite or nothing.
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  • jpetro wrote...
    Looks
    August 31, 2012 8:51 am
    like the Pac-12 coug'd it
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  • JustAnotherFish wrote...
    At least...
    August 31, 2012 8:53 am
    We've still got 18 shopping channels, a channel for every flavor of Christianity, and plenty of redundant "reality" programming. Lose all that? No way.
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  • doublej wrote...
    Hood Canal Cable doesn't carry it either
    August 31, 2012 9:51 am
    Got an email a month ago from HCC that told us the PAC-12 was asking more than twice as much as HCC could afford to pay so, no PAC-12 channel for us. Greedy jerks.
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  • JustAnotherFish wrote...
    Wouldn't it be nice
    August 31, 2012 10:43 am
    ...if we could just order and pay for the channels we wanted and watched? Instead we're relegated to subscribing to packages full of useless programming just for a few watchable networks...
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    @ JustAnotherFish
    August 31, 2012 4:21 pm
    Yes it would!

    And keep in mind, our dues reflect all those infomercial and shopping channels even if we don't want them.

    I for one am tired of flipping through all those channels just to get to the programming I want. A la carte would be nice, but the powers to be get a lot of coin from all those channels that most of us ignore.

    I have Dish and have been unable to watch the Apple Cup for the past 2 or 3 years at home since they broadcast it on verses (sp?) a channel I can't even get if I paid for it.

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