2024-2025 still with Bally's?

Kurisu said:
I already pay for Amazon Prime, are they saying the sports content is another $20? It's bad enough that DirecTV and Disney are feuding requiring the ESPN stream for that content. Every season this mess gets more complicated (and expensive).
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Hope that comes to fruition
 
Can we assume blackouts will still apply in this potential deal? Will we only be able to see only local games?
 
Enough is enough with all these contract disputes with carriers and channels. Why hasn't the FCC stepped in to moderate and or make rules that support subscribers while they work out the disputes.

Doh, I know why, cuz America.
 
BTW, from what I've digested reading all these updates. The Kings and Bally's are on a separate course. Didn't Bally's and the Kings just agree (last week) to a deal?
 
ICE24 said:
For people living out of state, will we able to watch Kings games on ESPN+? And how many games per year are on ESPN+?

I will still have Spectrum in the Palm Desert home, so I can use that to get Bally's So Cal, however, I heard from others that sometimes Bally's is terrible when you stream.

This is crucial as I will have to drop Directv in a couple of months, when the official move happens. Any thoughts or help will be beneficial for this native Californian.
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I’d been paying my octegenarian mom’s Spectrum bill and enjoying the login to Bally’s app on Roku here in AZ. That goes away because she unfortunately broke her femur two weeks ago and she’ll be in skilled-care for at least two months. On top of that, the people she was renting a garage apartment from are selling their house and evicting her is part of that process. She likely won’t be able to live alone going forward, anyhow.

I prefered watching Kings hockey on Bally’s because more often than not there were no actual commercials. Seeing the same five annoying/dumb commercials during every break on ESPN+ was driving me insane.
 
So what the f***? Is it on Amazon or not?

About to fire Directv and give my money to Google, just need to know I have a channel for Kings hockey that isn’t their f***ed up app.
 
Birdman said:
So what the f***? Is it on Amazon or not?

About to fire Directv and give my money to Google, just need to know I have a channel for Kings hockey that isn’t their f***ed up app.
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Who knows? I am going to sign up for Directv Stream for the free five-day trial in So Cal, I will then try it when I go back east a couple days later. I was told to use a different email address. Maybe that was to get the free trial since I am already a subscriber to their satellite service. I was also told, I would get my same So Cal programming when I'm back east, by using that same email address when I sign into the TV's there. I have serious doubts. FYI, I have been using the Spectrum App for ESPN on my phone and then mirroring to my TV for the football games, since Directv and Disney are going through a tiff. My Spectrum app on my Samsung TV sucks, it stops and buffers so that is why I use the phone. I'm over all this crap, bring back "ON TV or Z Channel."
 
ICE24 said:
Who knows? I am going to sign up for Directv Stream for the free five-day trial in So Cal, I will then try it when I go back east a couple days later. I was told to use a different email address. Maybe that was to get the free trial since I am already a subscriber to their satellite service. I was also told, I would get my same So Cal programming when I'm back east, by using that same email address when I sign into the TV's there. I have serious doubts. FYI, I have been using the Spectrum App for ESPN on my phone and then mirroring to my TV for the football games, since Directv and Disney are going through a tiff. My Spectrum app on my Samsung TV sucks, it stops and buffers so that is why I use the phone. I'm over all this crap, bring back "ON TV or Z Channel."
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Very frustrating to say the least!

Again, just to keep it relevant so to speak... I am not re-upping w Ballys!!!!!

Will find other way
 
so far as I can tell the rules for in market and out of market are still complicating the whole shebang Bird. So
ICE24 said:
Who knows? I am going to sign up for Directv Stream for the free five-day trial in So Cal, I will then try it when I go back east a couple days later. I was told to use a different email address. Maybe that was to get the free trial since I am already a subscriber to their satellite service. I was also told, I would get my same So Cal programming when I'm back east, by using that same email address when I sign into the TV's there. I have serious doubts. FYI, I have been using the Spectrum App for ESPN on my phone and then mirroring to my TV for the football games, since Directv and Disney are going through a tiff. My Spectrum app on my Samsung TV sucks, it stops and buffers so that is why I use the phone. I'm over all this crap, bring back "ON TV or Z Channel."
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You'll probably need to VPN to Los Angeles to be able to use it back east. I have to VPN back to midwest to use ESPN in market
They're very silly about it all.
 
All I know is I'm glad I'm a pirate argh because this sh*t all sounds confusing. I didn't mind paying $120 or whatever a year for NHL.TV to have every game but they stopped that awhile ago.
 
Puckoholic said:
Just saw a Jim Fox post on X that says most games will be on Bally's. Can't believe they get my money for another year.
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They suck. They will not get my money. All I asked was to provide what I paid for. They didn't come thru. I can't believe they nother having customer service as the person said they are working on it and that they could not give credit. The. He asked if there was anything else he csn do....! YOU DIDNT DO ANYTHING BUT TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!
 
I’ve been hearing those rumors about Prime and Hulu as well! That would be a nice change. I had ESPN Plus last season, and I thought they did a decent job with the number of games, though the streaming quality could be hit or miss. I completely get your frustration with Bally's—my experience with them was pretty rough too, especially when their feed would go out during important moments. If they end up with the rights again, I’m definitely going to think twice about subscribing.
 
I hate that everything is moving to streaming. I already have center ice, which I think is on auto renew through comcast. I don't need another app, with another username and password. I want to be able to just watch TV and not have to constantly go in and out of different apps.
 
JJ289 said:
I hate that everything is moving to streaming. I already have center ice, which I think is on auto renew through comcast. I don't need another app, with another username and password. I want to be able to just watch TV and not have to constantly go in and out of different apps.
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Well, you know how it is...in the free market, competition gives the customer a better product for a cheaper price!

Can someone shed some light to how this kind of disaster can happen in this day and age? Did Ballys sign a contract that stumped the competitors in order to then try and gouge the customer by either increasing the service fee or offering a sub-par product (meaning they are skimping somewhere to save money), which eventually put them in financial trouble?

What prevents the Kings to offer the "package" of streaming their games to someone else? Are they limited due to contracts or is there no interest on the market?


In Slovenia we have an issue of a couple of big ex-Yu media corporations (big relatively for our region, of course) buying up broadcasting rights for most sports that are popular and they are offering their channels to only one IPTV provider each as part of their program scheme (I think you even have to pay extra for their sports channels)...of course these two providers are the most expensive ones. The trick then is that you can't access to, let's say (not sure this exact situation is true, but something along those lines), both the Champions League football and Basketball Euroleague with the same IPTV provider...you'd need to have both. Which is ridiculous, of course. Additionally, big national team championships like UEFA Euro Cup or Basketball Euro Cup could also be broadcasted by only one of these providers, as they priced out our national media provider (that we all have to pay for anyways) that once provided basically ALL relevant sports broadcasts for both club and national team competitions 10-15 years ago.

Basically, the free market is screwing us up right up our @sses.

Is this a similar situation?
 
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Bollocks said:
Well, you know how it is...in the free market, competition gives the customer a better product for a cheaper price!

Can someone shed some light to how this kind of disaster can happen in this day and age? Did Ballys sign a contract that stumped the competitors in order to then try and gouge the customer by either increasing the service fee or offering a sub-par product (meaning they are skimping somewhere to save money), which eventually put them in financial trouble?

What prevents the Kings to offer the "package" of streaming their games to someone else? Are they limited due to contracts or is there no interest on the market?


In Slovenia we have an issue of a couple of big ex-Yu media corporations (big relatively for our region, of course) buying up broadcasting rights for most sports that are popular and they are offering their channels to only one IPTV provider each as part of their program scheme (I think you even have to pay extra for their sports channels)...of course these two providers are the most expensive ones. The trick then is that you can't access to, let's say (not sure this exact situation is true, but something along those lines), both the Champions League football and Basketball Euroleague with the same IPTV provider...you'd need to have both. Which is ridiculous, of course. Additionally, big national team championships like UEFA Euro Cup or Basketball Euro Cup could also be broadcasted by only one of these providers, as they priced out our national media provider (that we all have to pay for anyways) that once provided basically ALL relevant sports broadcasts for both club and national team competitions 10-15 years ago.

Basically, the free market is screwing us up right up our @sses.

Is this a similar situation?
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Its not quite a free market in that the RSN's bought the digital broadcast rights with their regional broadcast rights, therefore they are the rights holder based on the free market when they originally purchased it in bundle. The teams didn't know what they had and never sold the streaming rights separately back in the last round of negotiations. If they had held the rights we wouldn't be stuck with Ballys.
 
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