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i have ESPN and TNT and NHL Network via Sling for like 50/month. probably gonna cancel it once the NHL/NBA playoffs are over. would love it if I could just get those channels and nothing else, but I'm guessing that it would be around the same money if I paid individually via OTT or something. I also do the ESPN/Hulu/Disney bundle. don't really watch Disney but the old lady likes Hulu. Not sure if it'd be cheaper to just do the duo.
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Declan MacManus posted:maybe this is the point but at $45 a month it makes more sense to just spring for basic cable (anywhere from $40-70 a month) or youtube tv ($72 a month but includes a lot of other things) It's the "you need high tier cable package" to get ESPN u or news that is terrible since it comes with a bunch of stuff I don't ever watch. I do realize that's how cable works, but off loading a big chunk of those channels could likely reduce my cable/internet bill significantly.
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May 18, 2023 18:58
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I'd rather spend $30/mo for ESPN than $45/mo for a package that includes it because at least that way I know that none of my money is going to Fox News
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May 18, 2023 19:04
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Also people on cable are probably paying more than they realize due to all the bolted on fees and pretend discounts. I had a pretty basic tier cable subscription to get my local sports channels and my fiber internet. When I finally dropped the cable part, my bill dropped by closer to $100 than the $60 they acted like they were charging me.
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May 18, 2023 19:17
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Old people still have cable. Young people will just watch illegal streams. But if you have an espn package for $30 a month you’ll get that money you were never getting before. Especially if it’s a roommate situation where 2-5 people are splitting the cost.
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Does that include the entire suite of ESPN networks or just the flagship (as the project is called)? If it's just ESPN then gently caress all the way off, but if it's everything (which includes stuff like SECN+ and so on) that's a different story
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Declan MacManus posted:maybe this is the point but at $45 a month it makes more sense to just spring for basic cable (anywhere from $40-70 a month) or youtube tv ($72 a month but includes a lot of other things) Beneath a certain threshold, the conversation gets extremely awkward with cable companies: Tough to justify getting paid $7.64 per subscriber (or to be on basic cable at all) when there's a $10/mo alternative to get your networks. At $40/mo, a bit easier to make the case that plenty of ESPN watchers are keeping cable because they want sports AND other content but that they'll cut the cord real quick if ESPN is on a higher tier or if ESPN refuses to accept the lower carriage and disappears as a provider entirely. Again, this is me spitballing so I could be super off about how Disney views this moving forward. I certainly wouldn't have predicted Discovery's catastrofuck with
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May 19, 2023 04:20
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update he gone https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1660753430380519425?s=46
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May 22, 2023 23:20
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https://twitter.com/riveraveblues/status/1660291354314911749?s=46 Good lord
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May 23, 2023 00:48
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Welcome to the future
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May 23, 2023 00:53
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What if there was some way to bundle all these services together, maybe tie them together with some cable?
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May 23, 2023 00:57
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Vertical Lime posted:update Was this the guy who mispronounced "Negro League"? I think by itself that's maybe focusing too much on the word and not what's actually behind it, but this: quote:McDonald also reported that “information uncovered in the internal review” was another factor that led to Kuiper’s departure. uhh certainly makes the story different.
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May 23, 2023 01:19
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Lockback posted:uhh certainly makes the story different. If you manage to do "other" things that get you fired from a team that the owners basically couldn't give less of a poo poo about, you have probably done some pretty bad things. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 03:09 on May 23, 2023 |
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That Amazon game is also on wpix in the nyc area. They just simulcast Yankees games to the rest of New York or whatever the territory is. Before last year those games used to be syndicated OTA. Also are the Sunday morning peacock games on NBC?
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The American Dream posted:That Amazon game is also on wpix in the nyc area. They just simulcast Yankees games to the rest of New York or whatever the territory is. Diehards spend $10,000 a year on streaming services just to watch the Yankees lose in the AL Playoffs for the 15th straight year.
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The American Dream posted:That Amazon game is also on wpix in the nyc area. They just simulcast Yankees games to the rest of New York or whatever the territory is. as of last year wpix doesn't carry those games anymore, it's amazon-only in yankee territory there was one peacock game on nbc earlier this month, but that's it for the season
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May 23, 2023 03:41
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Vertical Lime posted:as of last year wpix doesn't carry those games anymore, it's amazon-only in yankee territory Oh jeez, I assumed it was still wpix in the city and Amazon was rebroadcasting it upstate instead of being on the cw in my city. If you live in NYC, how hard is it to get OTA channels with an indoor antenna? Or do all the buildings have antennas on the roof that you can hook up with a coaxe cable?
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May 23, 2023 08:33
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Crazy Ted posted:The future of sports: all teams are "barnstorming" teams but instead of playing in a different town/city every night they play on a different network or TV channel every night and it's up to the viewer to figure out or subscribe to whatever it is they're playing on. I was not promised this when the internet and “500-channel cable” were touted thirty years ago 
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The American Dream posted:Oh jeez, I assumed it was still wpix in the city and Amazon was rebroadcasting it upstate instead of being on the cw in my city. I had to put the antenna on the window for it to work at all but then worked fine and lol thinking landlords here would do something nice like give everyone OTA channel hookups
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Yeah there are zero Yankee games that aren't behind some kind of paywall anymore. It's terrible.
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I know the Mets have 20 games on WPIX and the Yankees have zero OTA but how many games total from the other teams can be picked up over a antenna?
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Island Nation posted:I know the Mets have 20 games on WPIX and the Yankees have zero OTA but how many games total from the other teams can be picked up over a antenna? regional saturday fox games
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2WlN5jsYg
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Dr_Strangelove posted:I was not promised this when the internet and “500-channel cable” were touted thirty years ago 500* channels!!!!! * 470 are informercials
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May 25, 2023 03:11
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Always love a good awkward live moment: https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1661600169031536641
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Crazy Ted posted:Always love a good awkward live moment: That man had something else on his mind
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All I want is a package of live sports (the ESPN suite, local RSN, basic ABC/FOX/etc.) and literally nothing else, but I assume that'll never happen because of all the skin in the game. No one watches scripted television live anymore, so sports fans are basically subsidizing cable right now and they know we don't really have anywhere else to turn for consistent, convenient coverage. Sucks.
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RumbleFish posted:No one watches scripted television live anymore, so sports fans are basically subsidizing cable right now and they know we don't really have anywhere else to turn for consistent, convenient coverage. Sucks. You've got the business model flipped. Cable collectively pays Disney $7.60 x 72m per month for ESPN, even though the overwhelming majority of those subscribers never or rarely watch the Worldwide Leader. ESPN, meanwhile, can charge such a fee because even though most don't watch them enough people have cable solely for sports that the model would crumble even quicker if they bailed.
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https://twitter.com/espn/status/1661794527827435521 gently caress YEAH 
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/espn/status/1661794527827435521
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/espn/status/1661794527827435521 oh hell yes Wesley Two Scoops Berry, Siren kicking rear end on that upside down track, Nitro being a dick, Malibu getting cannonballed out of existence, I loved that show so much.
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In between my bouts of excitement and anticipation I was thinking. Why did they announce this 5 days before air date, are 30for30s usually announced with such a small window? Or is it because the nba and nhl conference finals are blowouts this year?
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The American Dream posted:In between my bouts of excitement and anticipation I was thinking. Why did they announce this 5 days before air date, are 30for30s usually announced with such a small window? i heard about this weeks ago, trailer and all e: dated april 21st https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/american-gladiators-documentary-30-for-30.html Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 11:39 on May 26, 2023 |
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Mods make this picture the thread background right now pls and thx u https://twitter.com/knicks_tape99/status/1663373995679404032?s=46
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DJExile posted:Mods make this picture the thread background right now pls and thx u also the background of the Sports Journalism thread
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DJExile posted:Mods make this picture the thread background right now pls and thx u https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1663378840352063489 I’ll see what I can do
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Watching the Gladiators 30 for 30. How are they going to get two episodes out of this? I've enjoyed most of it, but it's already feeling like they've covered just about everything. Sabre is awesome, though, and I could listen to him all day.
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