Dish & Sling subscribers - Ouch!!

LadyJacket

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King2b said:
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I tried this link and it worked for most of the game - now it's telling me that I'm banned and can't watch it to check with my provider. I punted AT&T/DirecTV to curb earlier this year and was just trying to stream for free. Maybe I'm just going to have to purchase something then? Let me know what you guys think my best option would be. Now that GC is gone I'm really wanting to be able to watch more of our games.
 
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If anyone in your family has cable, there's a thing they can set up called watchtvanywhere. Have to download apps and cast to TV but its how I do it. Should be free.
 

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On a trip to the beach. House has Dish TV. I was bummed to find they were dropping ESPN over contract dispute. I have cable tv through Spectrum and had to watch the game on my phone app but glad I got to see the win. I also had Clemson NCSU game on the dish tv at same time.
 

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g0lftime said:
On a trip to the beach. House has Dish TV. I was bummed to find they were dropping ESPN over contract dispute. I have cable tv through Spectrum and had to watch the game on my phone app but glad I got to see the win. I also had Clemson NCSU game on the dish tv at same time.
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I split the cost of DirectTV Steam across our fam (dropped YouTubeTV when they dropped Bally Sports). Then have a Verizon account that includes Disney/ESPN+. When traveling, take a Roku 4K stick. Allows watching Braves and all GT games regardless of where we travel. Not the cheapest solution for everyone if you can't split costs across fam but I wore out trying to watch Braves, Hawks and GT games via free/illegal streams with all the intermittent performance and ads...PITA...
 

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randerto said:
I split the cost of DirectTV Steam across our fam (dropped YouTubeTV when they dropped Bally Sports). Then have a Verizon account that includes Disney/ESPN+. When traveling, take a Roku 4K stick. Allows watching Braves and all GT games regardless of where we travel. Not the cheapest solution for everyone if you can't split costs across fam but I wore out trying to watch Braves, Hawks and GT games via free/illegal streams with all the intermittent performance and ads...PITA...
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I have a small device that connects my phone to HDMI but it was not in my computer bag. Wife took it out.
 

Yaller Jacket

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This is good to know, slugboy. But this week we've got the goshawful Bally. I'm gonna try to find a stream again. I found one Saturday thanks to the help here, although I could get no sound and could never enlarge the screen.
 
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I like YouTube TV (except for their price hikes) and we went through the exact same thing last year. We've lost all Disney owned channels but like 3 days later they were back as apparently a deal was reached. Makes you wonder, if it was only 3 days, why couldn't they work it out before the deadline? I see both sides as the bad guys... one mega corporation playing chicken with another corporation behemoth. The customers always get screwed.
 
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albanyjacket said:
Are there any streaming services that offer Bally?
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According to the Bally site, the only providers that include Bally are Xfinity, Spectrum, DirecTV, and DirecTV stream. So DirecTV Stream carries it, but no other streaming service.

Bally has pretty much shot itself in the foot by charging far too much for content that isn't as widely wanted, with the exception of Braves baseball. They have a streaming package that includes Haws, Dream, United, Predators, and Hurricanes. That package costs $25.99 per month, and doesn't even include the Braves games.
 

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RonJohn said:
According to the Bally site, the only providers that include Bally are Xfinity, Spectrum, DirecTV, and DirecTV stream. So DirecTV Stream carries it, but no other streaming service.

Bally has pretty much shot itself in the foot by charging far too much for content that isn't as widely wanted, with the exception of Braves baseball. They have a streaming package that includes Haws, Dream, United, Predators, and Hurricanes. That package costs $25.99 per month, and doesn't even include the Braves games.
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Dang! Thanks
 

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I have no use for Disney or Dish. I wonder who blinked first?
I have Dish and our Internet is spotty or I would drop them. Still waiting on Star Link.
 

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Well, I’ve been there and done that. I paid to stream there and done a couple of those other streams, too.

But no more. I went back to Spectrum cable, and have not regretted it. Happily paid a bit more just to avoid more frustrations and aggravations!!

Ahhh, I’m all calm and serene now. Can watch anything I want.

My wife also loves it, too.
 
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slugboy said:
Sling is back:
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Yup, I can validate. Brought up GT game this morning.

I really only use Sling for college football and college baseball. So I'll let it lapse until I need it. After looking through the other alternatives out there (YouTube, Fubo, etc), SLing meets what I need since I already have Amazon Prime, Disney+ (through son), Netflix (through daughter), YouTube (free version) and occaisional month subscritions to STARZ or BritBox or whatever. There is so much more content out there than I can ever keep up with. Especially since my wife and I only watch a series for an hour or two every night.

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And thanks for this. Worked great. Did lose game while the person providing it was banned and they found an alternate source.
 
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RonJohn said:
According to the Bally site, the only providers that include Bally are Xfinity, Spectrum, DirecTV, and DirecTV stream. So DirecTV Stream carries it, but no other streaming service.

Bally has pretty much shot itself in the foot by charging far too much for content that isn't as widely wanted, with the exception of Braves baseball. They have a streaming package that includes Haws, Dream, United, Predators, and Hurricanes. That package costs $25.99 per month, and doesn't even include the Braves games.
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I think DirecTV and DirecTV Stream are on the last year of their contracts, which is one of the reasons they still have Bally. Sinclair really owns the network, and they paid too much for it when they bought it from Fox. They've been trying to raise rates since they bought it, and most carriers fled.
They assigned ownership to a subsidiary (Diamond Sports Group), and they sold the naming rights to Bally Casinos. Now, everything wrong with Bally sports sticks to the casino that bought the rights instead of the company that actually runs the service. After next year, DirecTV may drop the service, and MLS rights will be with Apple.
It looks like the ACC Network is trying to buy back rights from Raycom that go to Sinclair/Bally. They got the Women's tournament. It's murky to me what will be on Bally next year and what won't be.
 
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