{"id":296208,"date":"2025-09-22T04:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/296208\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:20:24","slug":"altitude-sports-comcast-end-long-running-dispute-to-televise-nuggets-and-avalanche-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/296208\/","title":{"rendered":"Altitude Sports, Comcast end long-running dispute to televise Nuggets and Avalanche games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Reigning MVPs Nikola Jokic and Nathan MacKinnon can be seen on television again by a majority of Colorado fans after Altitude Sports ended a long-running dispute with Comcast, the region\u2019s largest cable provider.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-finals-nuggets-denver-kroenke-owner-billionaire-c08605d1e08f5566dc6f419d879a5ad3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kroenke Sports &amp; Entertainment (KSE)<\/a>, the owner of Altitude Sports, and Comcast announced Tuesday that Altitude has returned to Xfinity TV customers. Comcast hasn\u2019t carried Altitude \u2014 local broadcasts of Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games \u2014 since its previous contract expired in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing we have to do at KSE is just look at our fans and say, \u2018I\u2019m sorry,\u2019 and \u2018We\u2019re sorry,\u2019\u201d said Kevin Demoff, the president of team and media operations for KSE. \u201dEvery day that went by for the past year was a game too many \u2014 too many shots, too many goals that were missed for our fans. We took that responsibility very personally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was priority No. 1 for the Kroenke family, to make sure these teams got back on the air. And so from that perspective, it\u2019s a great day. But it\u2019s also a day that should\u2019ve happened long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The live game broadcasts start Tuesday night with the Avalanche playing at Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"more-section-display-name\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Dowd says MSNBC reacted to a right-wing mob in firing him for Charlie Kirk commentary\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/matthew-dowd-charlie-kirk-msnbc-9f649967c4629ce238345c71bbf22eca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Matthew Dowd, chief campaign strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign, speaks at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. (AP Photo\/Danny Johnston, File)\"  width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758514824_548_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"LA Olympics to sell naming rights to some venues in game-changing deal for 2028\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/los-angeles-olympics-naming-rights-7dbe42386216eadd935776ce151c4383\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"This aerial view show Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong, File)\"  width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758514824_251_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to once again make Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games available on Comcast and Xfinity platforms in Colorado and the surrounding region,\u201d KSE vice chairman <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minnesota-timberwolves-denver-nuggets-nba-covid-nhl-d41a48ed7393e18289665570f6ef413e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Kroenke said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cThis is the best possible outcome for Nuggets Nation and Avs Faithful, who now have a straightforward way to see every game on one service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For years, a portion of young fans have been unable to watch the development of Jokic or MacKinnon on a nightly basis through Comcast. Instead, they\u2019ve had to turn to alternate broadcasting avenues and streaming services as MacKinnon led the Avalanche to a Stanley Cup title in 2022 and Jokic guided the Nuggets to their first NBA championship a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast stopped carrying Altitude due to a disagreement over fees the cable giant was charging to carry the network. The ensuing legal battle has kept the Nuggets and Avalanche out of many homes in the region for the last 5 1\/2 seasons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an absolute gift to be able to watch some of the greatest athletes in sports history playing in your hometown every night,\u201d said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who was wearing a Jokic jersey at the news conference. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just 30 minutes when you\u2019re washing dishes or 30 minutes when you\u2019re doing homework with the kids. &#8230; You might have missed some of the last five seasons, but there\u2019s plenty of great play coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery one of those games you can catch is a new chance to train a new generation of young fans to realize what they have in their hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Reigning MVPs Nikola Jokic and Nathan MacKinnon can be seen on television again by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[48426,7,3025,585,17923,301,187,3943,448,3787,48427,45755,8737,6,302,66,449,33721],"class_list":{"0":"post-296208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-avalanches","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-co-state-wire","12":"tag-comcast-corp","13":"tag-denver","14":"tag-denver-nuggets","15":"tag-denvernuggets","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-josh-kroenke","18":"tag-kevin-demoff","19":"tag-mike-johnston","20":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nuggets","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-u-s-news","25":"tag-vancouver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115246034092368510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}