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Aah, again makes sense. Appreciate this information. I'll check out my internet data cap....it might make a big difference, as I won't save that much switching.
just be sure to have unlimited internet with no data cap because streaming will easily destroy your cap.............. i used over 1tb of data in 10 days
Aah, again makes sense. Appreciate this information. I'll check out my internet data cap....it might make a big difference, as I won't save that much switching.
I noticed that all NBA teams broadcast on the regional Fox Sports network in their region. Must be some kind of monopoly.
There are a few that do not broadcast on Fox Regionals, and thus, YouTubeTV carries them. Blazers and Wizards (two quick off the top of my head) use NBC regional sports networks that are included in HuluTV and YouTubeTV. I believe the Bulls are the same.
Edit: After a quick search, the Warriors, 76ers and Celtics also use NBC regionals.
What's going on here? Such a big part of SA, so why not have some sort of deal with KENS or something? Sinclair has a ing stranglehold on news and sports.
A couple bullet points to quickly recap:
- The team's management/owners decide who to give their broadcasting contract to. (For instance, the owner of the Wizards owns a big stake in the NBC Regional Sports Network, so definitely the big reason why the Wizards are televised by NBC Sports)
- Spurs Sports & Entertainment just signed a huge multi-year contract with Fox Regional (FSSW) in late 2018.
- The Fox Regional Sports were once owned by Fox Sports themselves. That's why every streaming service carried them. (Networks package out their channels together, so if YouTubeTV wanted to broadcast FS1 or FS2, they HAD to also buy the rights to Fox Sports Southwest for example, and that's why we had FSSW on YouTubeTV or HuluLive+TV for so long)
- Now, FSSW and other Fox Regional Sports Networks do not belong to Fox Sports anymore, Sinclair has bought them all. And losing money on them quickly. Sinclair is known for their high price negotiations and aren't budging. This is why I expect none of the streaming services to include FSSW again.
- Sinclair will change the name of their Fox Sports Regional Networks to Bally's Sports. So expect it to be called Bally's Sports Southwest soon.
- In addition to the name change, I have heard Rumors that Bally's Sports will start their own streaming service (like Disney+ or ESPN+ or Pea ) and provide content that way.
At the end of the day, teams are also businesses. You gotta go with the highest bidder. Theres no way a local channel like KENS5 can compete with a national brand.
Aside from the streaming service mentioned in this thread, pretty sure Spectrum and DirectTV still carry it too. So it's not like it's really that hard to see the games. It's really only hard for cord cutters, tbh.
Sadly I’m fine with this but it needs to be made available to the public sooner than later. Really though the nba needs to rework blackout restrictions and allow us to watch local games via league pass. They’re doing their fans a huge disservice by not demanding a renegotiation over blackout restrictions. Especially in a covid world.
Yeah well, that's the direction the world is going now. More and more people are "cutting the cord" and switching to streaming services. So if companies want people to be able to access their content, they need to get with the times.
I get the business side of it. But somewhere along the line you wanna make your product accessible to consumer.
sinclair will use this as a loss leader, they paid more for the content than they'll get back at first. Their stream service will be low priced at first but then they'll raise prices as they entrench monopoly power. The nba has no recourse, they gave fox the ability to sell the stuff and Disney, who can't risk an rust breakup, agreed to sell at a likely depressed amount.
Aren’t all sides losing in this though? Like people aren’t able to watch FSSW, Sinclair is losing money by not having agreements in place with other TV providers, these other TV companies are losing business because they don’t have it etc. plus NBA ratings will be down significantly if people can’t watch.
Anybody else with at&t now get Mavs/Blazers yesterday instead of Spurs/Hornets? Idk if it was also the case live, but I just went to watch the recording of it since I wasnt able to catch it yesterday and it's the wrong FSSW feed.
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