Sports fans are frustrated with multiple streaming services requiring multiple subscriptions
Re: “Nuggets’ alphabet soup TV schedule rips off fans,” April 16 sports commentary
Many thanks to sports columnist Troy Renck for speaking up about the high-tech hell that viewers are going through to watch the Nuggets in the NBA playoffs, and almost anything else. Fans need to start speaking up loudly. Or would just throwing their high-tech, controlled TVs in the garbage work best, so high-tech loses money and starts listening?
What has happened since they started controlling everything? Chaos. Who can figure out which crazy streaming services will be broadcasting anything?
Time to end this madness. Start complaining.
Dea Coschignano, Wheat Ridge
Troy Renck’s column in this Thursday’s Denver Post said it best, regarding the great NBA greed factor. The NBA is a short-sighted, money-grubbing organization that cares about its checkbook rather than the people who make its checkbook fat with money, and that needs to be stopped by fans.
Professional sports that grew their base through fan loyalty and strong network television revenue have gone the way of saying, “look, these fans are so stupid they will continue to pay, pay, pay, because we have the beef.”
Well, I am through with pro sports on TV. My news will come from The Denver Post and other outlets, and that will have to suffice my desire to know how the teams are doing. I will turn to James Patterson, John Grisham, Michael Connelly, John Sandford, David Baldacci and Daniel Silva for my healthy dose of thrillers.
Ciao, pro sports. It was a fun run until you placed your wallet first and the fans at the bottom of your Christmas card list.
Thank you, Mr. Renck, for bringing this to the forefront of viewers and the disconnected executives of the pro teams and media outlets.
Jay Weinstein, Denver
Can’t Vance see that the pope is focused on matters of morality?
Vice President JD Vance recently commented that Pope Leo should stick to matters of morality. Apparently, Vance doesn’t see the killing of innocent Iranian school children with United States missiles as a moral issue. Nor does he see starting an unnecessary war that involves killing innocent people in several different countries as a moral issue. He doesn’t see that spending billions on a foreign war, which takes away from funds for medical care and food assistance and causes suffering worldwide and in this country, is a moral issue.
The vice president either needs to go back to Yale to take an ethics course or stop mimicking President Trump to see that Pope Leo is focused on morality, not politics, when he advocates peace on earth.
Michael Altman, Denver
Grateful for political cartoons
I have to say “Thank you” to the editors of The Denver Post for standing firm in the winds of change. Politics, profits and fear have driven so many publications to stop using one of the most powerful communication tools available … political cartoons. You continue to speak the “thousand words” a good graphic can say in a flash, and you do so for both sides of our current political debate. Don’t join your weak competitors. Keep those cartoons coming!
Bob Taylor, Englewood
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