Outside of the streaming giants, I would guess most are struggling to be profitable. There’s a reason YTTV raises their prices every 6 months. They might finally be making money at $65/month but the margins are probably slim.
Dish Network can whine and cry, but they now don't have the Twins, Wild, Wolves or any ESPN networks. They also frequently don't have one or more of the broadcast networks because they get into a pissing match with them every year or two. Anyone with any interest in sports would a fool to subscribe to them.
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I mean yeah ... if you've lost all that, what is the point of paying $65/month for a channel package?It's not the cable companies, Dish, DirecTV etc. It's the content providers. It's always the content providers. Now that AT&T sold their share of DirectV, they won't be able to skate through either.
"Disney and the Dish Network have reached a “handshake agreement” for a new distributions deal, ending a two-day blackout of Disney-owned networks on both Dish and Sling TV platforms (obvious channels like ESPN and Disney Channel were affected, but so were eight local ABC affiliates in various cities, all of which are now available again). This comes from Variety, which says that terms of the deal were not disclosed, but that Disney initially wanted to jack up licensing fees by $1 billion, to force Dish to offer ESPN and ESPN2 on channel packages that don’t include sports, and to force Dish to give subscribers in those aforementioned various cities their local ABC channels—basically, Disney wanted to get more money, to put more of its channels in front of Dish subscribers, and for the Disney company to bleed just a tiny bit. .
We won’t say it owns too many, because we wouldn’t dream of editorializing in a news story at The A.V. Club (not counting the one or two times we’ve done it in the past), but here’s the list of channels that were blacked out on Dish and Sling: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews (ESPN ooze?), ESPN Deportes, Disney Channel, Disney Jr, Disney XD, Freeform, FX, FXX, FXM, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo, ACC Network, SEC Network, Longhorn Network, Baby TV, and the ABC affiliates in Chicago, Fresno, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Raleigh, and San Francisco.
Losing the ESPN family of networks is bad, losing the FX family of networks is also bad, but losing all of them because one mouse controls a massive chunk of the entertainment industry like those marching brooms he once brought to life is… something, certainly. A hypothetical person might even hypothetically argue that it’s bad! We just think it’s whatever. Who cares."
Dish and Disney reach tentative agreement, ending massive channel blackout
Dish and Disney reach tentative agreement, ending massive channel blackout
Like many, I'm sure, this is the only reason I have live TV. I get Hulu Live for the college football and basketball/hockey seasons. Then I cancel it. I've done the math, and it's about the same price as Comcast (when factoring I get a bundling discount by being forced to have Comcast internet as the only viable option in my area). However, that's with a yearly contract. But I don't want live TV year round, as I watch very little (if any) live TV in the spring and summer. So the streaming thing is great for me, as I don't want it 12 months a year. But if I couldn't get sports, I wouldn't have a need for any live TV. If they had a streaming option that literally had only sports and was at a lower cost, I'd be all over it. I'm sorry, but if you're spending your time watching "The Housewives of Atlanta" or "My 600 Pound Life" live, you need more hobbies.
Right. Why would you want to watch those on Live TV anyway?? You can watch that stuff without commercials, whole seasons at a time, on services like Hulu and Netflix.
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Anyone use Fubo? I did the free trial once to be able to watch a game that wasn't on YouTube TV but can't remember what it was.Not sure where this belongs but FuboTV is adding Bally. Your move, Google.
FuboTV Agrees to Carry Sinclair's Bally Sports RSNs
The deal will allow cord cutters to access local sports on Sinclair’s 19 RSNs without having to subscribe to traditional cable or satellite and will expand FuboTVs live sports footprint
I've only used a free trial. I prefer YouTube TV's interface. Though I don't use any of them at the moment. Fubo is missing warner networks which is a deal breaker for me after their deal with USSF.
They have to now. Looks like I'll finally be able to watch it.Not sure where this belongs but FuboTV is adding Bally. Your move, Google.
FuboTV Agrees to Carry Sinclair's Bally Sports RSNs
The deal will allow cord cutters to access local sports on Sinclair’s 19 RSNs without having to subscribe to traditional cable or satellite and will expand FuboTVs live sports footprint
Fubo would have everything I'd want in a TV service if they had TBS/TNT/TruTV. I would love the obscure soccer channels like BeIN.
How do you watch Twins/Wild/Wolves when they aren't playing Detroit? I assume you live in Detroit.
Historically I have gotten MLB.TV for free through t-mobile. We'll see how long that continues.
Good. Well deserved.
I think that would be the hope. Essentially the Twins would re-try Victory Sports One and partner with the Wolves/Wild. But I suspect they might go straight to a streaming app.
