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Legacy broadcast contracts are a huge problem here. I only care about hockey, but NHL.tv is a complete mess from an audience perspective. $120 a year theoretic
by commandar 10y ago
Legacy broadcast contracts are a huge problem here. I only care about hockey, but NHL.tv is a complete mess from an audience perspective.
$120 a year theoretically gets you streaming for the regular season.
Unless you're considered in-market for the team you want to watch, in which case, the games are blacked out for you since they're available on regional sports channels.
So say you live out-of-market from the team you want to watch. Great! Now you can stream all the games live... unless it happens to be broadcast on national TV, in which case you get blacked out.
It's literally impossible to give the league money and watch all the games you want to see without also having cable and it's all because of the tangled mess of agreements with regional cable channels.
- grogenaut 10y agoI just watch everything on dvr. I've managed to make it most of the NFL season only knowing about 4 total scores. Like I think the bucs beat the hawks last week. And I live in seattle and have a fantasy team. I watch all of the baseball cardinals games at work. I'm often up to 3 weeks behind. This is easier as I'm out of market. But it's not that hard. I used to unfollow people on twitter who thought tweeting scores was somthing I'd care about. And I stopped using google news because it thinks who died on Game of Thrones or who won a game as news. It's even worse because it sees you looking at articles about them and zeroes in the news for you. Other than that the only issue is catching back up on baseball. There are so. many. games.