Pac-12 Network Business Model

It’s not on DirectTV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_SportsNet_Northwest

“Availability

As of December 2011, Comcast Cable (Oregon and Washington), Ashland TV, BendBroadband[4], Canby Telcom[5], Country Cablevision, MINET (Monmouth, Oregon)[6], Monroe Telephone, Reliance Connects, Scio Cablevision, Verizon FiOS (Portland and Seattle), and Wave Broadband are carrying the channel.[7] Canby Telcom has announced plans to discontinue the channel as Comcast has offered a non-negotiable fee increase that will bring the annual per subscriber charge to over $32.[8] Canby Telcom has accused Comcast of raising rates way beyond the rate of inflation and industry-wide increases.[8]
Carriage controversy

As of December 2011, the channel is unavailable on DirecTV, Dish Network and Charter Communications. DirecTV and Dish Network maintain that Comcast is negotiating in bad faith. For example, on one hand Comcast argues that the channel must be on a low tier with the most customers.[9] At the same time, Comcast argues that non-Comcast-owned sports channels should be shown only on a sports tier.[10] The Trail Blazers are said to be frustrated and disappointed by the conduct of Comcast over their contract with CSN.[11]

The Consumer Protection Committee of the Oregon House of Representatives held a hearing on February 24, 2010 to help get the channel on DirecTV, Dish Network and Charter Cable. No one from DirecTV, Dish Network, or the Trail Blazers attended.[12]

On June 21, 2010, the Trail Blazers asked the Federal Communications Commission to require Comcast Corp. to make Trail Blazers games available to competing multichannel programming distributors such as DirecTV and Dish Network.[13]

One Oregon cable company, Canby Telcom, has objected to the additional annual charge in excess of $32 being required to be charged per customer in 2012 and has announced plans to stop carrying the channel.[8] Canby Telcom President Keith Galitz is quoted as saying “That’s just too steep an increase for us, and it’s not in line with inflation or normal escalation of prices in the industry.”[8] Clear Creek Television, which carried the Trail Blazers for 15 years, was rebuffed when even attempting to negotiate the above-market rate Comcast pushed at Clear Creek.[8]

“Comcast clearly sees the public perception of its treatment of sports fans as a potential Achilles heel in efforts to acquire NBCU”, said Sports Fan Coalition Executive Director Brian Frederick, discussing how Comcast sent senior staff members to Oregon when a member of the Sports Fan Coalition testified before the Oregon Legislature on Comcast’s denial of access to hundreds of thousands of customers of DirecTV, Dish, and other cable operators.[14]

In a November 7, 2010 article, Blazers CEO Larry Miller continued to express frustration about the lack of availability.[15]”