YouTube TV Dropping FOX Regional sports networks

[bruin5]

20 hours ago, well_red said:

Sinclair Media is probably the real bad guy here.  But will Youtube TV drop prices now that these sports channels are gone, probably not.  Guess I'll go with Hulu TV until they inevitably "can't reach an agreement" too.  From the chatter online, people think Sinclair wants to set up it's own streaming service for these regional sports channels and hence is getting out of all the existing agreements with streaming providers.  

Sinclair needs eyeballs watching their channels now. They grossly overpaid for the RSN’s and thought that they could squeeze extra money from the carriers.  When Dish dropped them Sinclair’s CEO said Dish risked becoming irrelevant.  Instead Dish had one of their better quarters, didn’t suffer very much subscriber loss, and turned a very nice profit. Direct/ATT took the deal and started hemorrhaging subscribers due to their higher overall pricing.  
 

Carriers are taking a stand and are unwilling now to finance huge deals paid by content providers for sports. 

[Angel Dog and Beer]

2 hours ago, BackUpTheTruck said:

Just switched to Hulu live TV from YTTV.

Suck it Google, go Halos.

I think that's my next move too.

[Jay]

3 hours ago, BackUpTheTruck said:

Just switched to Hulu live TV from YTTV.

Suck it Google, go Halos.

This is the beauty of "cord cutting."

You can make a change at any time with no hassle.

[Inside Pitch]

2 hours ago, bruin5 said:

Disney only cares about ESPN. They have no vested interest in increasing sports coverage for others at their expense.  

But they ARE trying to grow their share of the streaming market.  Disney bundles ESPN*, Hulu, and Disney* together at a reduced cost for that sole reason...

[Chuck]

Hulu Plus does not have the MLB Network so that's a hard NO for me. I'm sticking with YTTV.

[Ray McKigney]

46 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Hulu Plus does not have the MLB Network so that's a hard NO for me. I'm sticking with YTTV.

Same here. I need MLB Network. I've decided to get MLB TV. I'm hoping a VPN will allow me to watch Angels games live, but if not, I can live with watching them after they're over.

[Ray McKigney]

Just heard they may have reached an agreement

Update:

 

[Lou]

Just now, Ray McKigney said:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are! We have agreed to a temporary extension! FOX Regional Sports Networks and YES Network are still available on YouTube TV while we work to reach an agreement. We’ll be sure to share an update as soon as we have more info on a potential timeline. More to come!</p>&mdash; TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1233578974443339776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I agree

[Ray McKigney]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

I agree

Haha.  I mistakenly copied and pasted the wrong information. I was only trying to copy the link and it copied all the code, I guess. So, you can go ahead and delete it. Thanks in advance!

[Jay]

1 hour ago, Ray McKigney said:

Just heard they may have reached an agreement

Cool, so I can go back to being bitter that there is no RSN in Boise.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

20 hours ago, Ray McKigney said:

Same here. I need MLB Network. I've decided to get MLB TV. I'm hoping a VPN will allow me to watch Angels games live, but if not, I can live with watching them after they're over.

hola.com is a free proxy server VPN.

[Ray McKigney]

1 minute ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

hola.com is a free proxy server VPN.

Awesome. Thanks for the info!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

T-mobile will be offering free MLBtv sometime in March to it's customers...

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

https://deadline.com/2020/02/youtube-tv-reaches-temp-agreement-fox-regional-sports-networks-yes-network-1202871399/

YouTube TV Reaches Temp Agreement With Sinclair To Carry Fox Regional Sports Networks and YES Network

[Jay]

1 hour ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

T-mobile will be offering free MLBtv sometime in March to it's customers...

Apparently they did this last year also and I didn't even know about it!

I've been a T-Mobile customer for years.

[Lou]

I've been watching cricket for about 20 minutes.

I have no f'n idea what the hell is going on.

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

I've been watching cricket for about 20 minutes.

I have no f'n idea what the hell is going on.

 

Sounds fun.

[Slegnaac]

3 hours ago, Lou said:

I've been watching cricket for about 20 minutes.

I have no f'n idea what the hell is going on.

I bet @Taylor's cats would take care of your cricket problem.

[Lou]

7 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

I bet @Taylor's cats would take care of your cricket problem.

No Cats Allowed in my house. 

btw, just checked - the match (?) is still going on. 

[Slegnaac]

8 minutes ago, Lou said:

No Cats Allowed in my house. 

btw, just checked - the match (?) is still going on. 

Test?

[Rally Gorilla]

The extension is great news.   I was set to switch back to Hulu tonight so I could watch the game tomorrow.    Thanks to all for the update.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

 

btw, just checked - the match (?) is still going on. 

This statement will still be accurate three days from now.

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Slegnaac said:

Test?

Ha. Is that why they kept saying that? 

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

This statement will still be accurate three days from now.

Still going . . . 

[Lou]

They just concluded for the day.

India is beating New Zealand by 97 points. However, for some unknown reason, they are in serious trouble.