You’re (not) watching CSN.

Longer story from the HouChron about the Comcast SportsNet Houston dispute I touched on yesterday.

As best as I can tell, here’s the deal:

  1. CSN Houston is run by a four member board. Two members represent Comcast/NBCU, one represents the Astros, and one represents the Houston Rockets (who are also carried on CSN Houston).
  2. The board has to agree unanimously on any carriage agreement or retransmission deal.
  3. The board doesn’t agree.

  4. …the disagreements among the parties are so sharp, the petition said, that they “go beyond mere acrimony” and that the board “will continue to be working at ‘cross-purposes’” unless a trustee is appointed by the bankruptcy court to oversee CSN Houston while the parties sort out their differences.

  5. As long as the board doesn’t agree, they can’t make carriage agreements.
  6. Or, apparently, pay their bills. CSN Houston admits they owe the Astros three months of broadcast fees.
  7. Thus, the involuntary Chapter 11 petition.

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