Sporting Events On Streaming Platforms

Jordan2 · ‎03-16-2010

I feel more and more this will be the way we will have to watch all the sporting events we love. I'm a Mets fan and watch the games on SNY and PIX11. So far I have watched games on AppleTV for free as they have offered it (game is on tonight). Amazon hasn't had a Mets game but has had a Yankee game (I have Amazon Prime). Well last Sunday the Mets game was on Peacock, they weren't offering a freebie and I wasn't going to subscribe for just one game. I ended up listening to the game on the radio (their best numbers for a game), it wasn't the same.

781Florist · ‎10-16-2021

I have YouTube TV and they dropped all the Regional Sports Networks (NESN, YES, SNY, MASN etc...) because they couldn't negotiate a favorable price to carry deal.

You are lucky the Mets still have some games on PIX. I think that all MLB markets should have a few games on over the air TV. The Red Sox have ALL their games on NESN and so I can't see them (or my Bruins!) unless I want to switch to FUBU and lose other channels I love. This business of Peacock, Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Brit Box,

Amazon Prime, Apple TV and all the other additional pay extra to see what was always on a single pay platform B*S* is out of control. It is getting so that in order to see all the various network shows you are used to that you need to subscribe to about three or four extra services and go broke. I have to settle for the occasional exclusive game on FS1, ESPN, or TBS/TNT to see my teams. There will come a day of reckoning when these teams that abandoned their fanbases for the big TV payday find they no longer have any fans who follow them. They priced them out and shut them out.

Jordan2 · ‎03-16-2010

I'm watching the Met game, don't care for the AppleTV+ booth, but then again I'm spoiled because I get to listen to Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez the best team in baseball.

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

I subscribe to Peacock and they're doing some interesting stuff. It's $4.99 a month for Peacock, but they're doing a "movie benefits test" and each month they credit you with either $15 towards a Fandango movie theater ticket or $7 to a Vudu rental or purchase. That pretty nicely offsets the cost of Peacock and even pays you a bit more. I don't know how long the movie benefits will last, but so far, so good. The Vudu movie redemption is a bit clunky, but it works. I haven't tried the Fandango redemption process as there are no theaters nearby.

The Vudu redemption is a bit weird as you have to pick out the movie on your phone or tablet (probably a PC also but I haven't tried that) then watch it on your TV.

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