Altitude Sports has been off TVs in the Denver area for the entirety of the NBA and NHL seasons. That means most local Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche fans haven’t been able to follow their teams on television.
The regional sports network recently worked out a deal that put it back on DirecTV but still remains off Dish Network and Comcast systems. Bars in and around the Pepsi Center have also been able to stream the Nuggets’ and Avalance’s away games this season.
On Wednesday, the network hosted a webstream on Facebook and Twitter that gave fans the chance to ask questions about the standoff and Altitude’s lawsuit against Comcast. Vic Lombardi and Kyle Keefe invited representatives on Comcast to join them, but none showed up.
Lawyers for Comcast dismissed Altitude’s claims that the cable company is trying to run the network out of business in order to launch its own regional sports network as “meritless.”
Comcast is offering Altitude Sports 70% of the carriage rate that the network has received in the past. Altitude claims that accepting the discount while Comcast charges fans more for their services “made no economic sense and would drive Altitude out of business” according to the lawsuit.
