{"id":678661,"date":"2026-10-04T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/678661\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:36:18","slug":"minnesota-wild-call-out-comcast-in-tv-carriage-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/678661\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild call out Comcast in TV carriage fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild CRO and EVP Mitch Helgerson said that Comcast is the television provider with which the team and NHL \u201care \u2018the most at odds,\u2019 and questioned why Comcast customers should have to pay extra to watch Wild games when they already pay a regional sports network fee.\u201d The Wild launched their new television operation this season with games now available locally through several options, including Wild+ on Prime Video, Fubo and Charter\/Spectrum. But two \u201cmajor holes remain: Comcast and DirecTV.\u201d Helgerson indicated that the Wild are \u201cmore encouraged about the DirecTV negotiations.\u201d He said, \u201cThe one that we are the most at odds with is Comcast.\u201d Helgerson mentioned that at the center of the Comcast dispute \u201cis where the new Wild channel would be placed\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 10\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for the Blues, DirecTV was expected to join soon for BlueNote+ <\/a>but the deal was not reach on Saturday. And as of Thursday, several other major programming distributors that are available in the region had \u201cnot contracted to show the channel,\u201d including Dish Network, Comcast, YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV. The team is asking fans who have a programming distributor that is not on board to \u201ccontact that company to try to push it to add the channel — or purchase either the Prime or Fubo streaming options.\u201d But that might \u201cnot sit well with some folks already paying for another provider\u201d (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 10\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild CRO and EVP Mitch Helgerson said that Comcast is the television provider with which the team and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[5,161,38,5280,4,6501,162],"class_list":["post-678661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-hockey","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nhl","tag-streaming","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117383855040681711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}