Posted on 09/14/2023 6:58:12 AM PDT by TNoldman
I want to Stream College Football from just a single source.
I've got Disney+ Bundle, Espn via Slingtv, ABC,CBS,NBC,Peacock, Slingtv Sports add on, etc. $70/mo.
My Xfinity Internet @100mbs is $25/mo.
Just to get Mi,In,Fl,Ga, Tn,ND,Oh,Al !!!!!!
Depending on the team, they make individual TV contracts with different networks for each individual game of their schedule.
Some are on a regional sports channel like B1G, some are on ESPN's fleet of channels, some are on Fox Sports, some are on broadcast network, and some are on obscure streaming channels like Peacock. And a single team may have one or more of their games on each of those services, so this week it may be BiG, next week it may be Peacock, and the game after that may be NBC.
There is no college equivalent to the NFL's Red Zone.
Sometimes if you are looking to follow just a single team, they may have a streaming service you can subscribe to, and that would be a convenient source for all of their games.
There are like nine college games each Saturday on my You Tube TV, I have trouble watching them all, but I give it a try : )
College football was ruined by breaking up the old conferences, the bowl system, TV, and the fake Obama “championship”.
Use Streameast on the internet for free,,every sport is available for free.
Maybe Fubo. I think that’s the closest it gets. It’s like a streaming version of cable TV. It has ESPN, Foxsports, the network channels and Big10. Some other sports channels also.
I have Fubo. They keep raising their prices though.
It sure is a different world, from the world of NBC, ABC, and CBS isn’t it?
I did say it’s like cable! It does have a lot of sports. Hubby watches games all day Saturday. As soon as college football season is over, I put it on pause until September.
The nice thing about it is that it has a 1000 hrs of recording space and keeps your recordings and settings until you turn it back on.
It’s not possible. There is no single source. The market is being to fracture. Cable will soon be dead and everything will be streamed several years from now.
Yup, and these TV deals is where they get the money to pay the coaches tens of millions of dollars a year.
You know at the start of the season, when some cupcake MAC team plays a Big Ten team? The TV revenue from that one game usually pays for the MAC team's entire year of expenses.
YoutubeTV has tons of sports. Big Ten Channel. Fox Sports. Espy. etc. I do regret they got in a food fight with MLB. Baseball wanted too much $$.
A question.
I watched the Washington State vs Wisconsin game Sat.
It was ESPN on an LA broadcast channel.
There were LOTS of commercials. I cannot imagine that it takes that long to change possession after a 4th down failure for example.
Not just during time outs, or quarter changes, or kickoffs, but during what should have been short pauses.
Does the broadcast contract allow stopping the game to stuff in all these commercials?
PS the ESPN commenter/announcers were full of themselves.
I get Hulu Live every year and cancel in January. Usually it’s nothing special. Basic cable channels plus 75 bucks a month for the season. Doesn’t have Pac-12 Network, which I don’t care about.
Now it places the games’ icons side by side for an easy exit and trip to another game during commercials. It has ESPN Plus, so every podunk game from anywhere is on. So I’ve actually grown to like it.
YouTube TV is my go to for college sports. Its gone up in price to over 70 bucks but its worth it for a single source. Unlimited DVR, most if not all the major sports channels, and they have reruns all the time.
Wow, the TV money sure is huge.
I don’t know about college football, but I’ve heard that NFL teams make more revenue from TV money, than it does from people buying tickets to the game at the stadium.
Yes. The NFL and NCAA football both have rules around TV timeouts.
I use Hulu and Disney/ESPN+
“Cable will soon be dead”
Cable TV is losing subscribers heavily but it will be hard to kill it.
The reason is that many apartment buildings and homeowners associations have hard-wired cable TV and (most importantly) charge a discounted fee as part of the rent or association fees.
Even if the residents “cut the cord” they still have to pay for it. If they stream they end up paying twice for the same programs.
Streaming has problems of its own—it is very difficult for companies to make money with a la carte choices and/or instant disconnects at the discretion of the consumer.
The entire entertainment/sports industry are going to face a very interesting future—something has got to give....
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