Live Sports Streaming Woes

Few weeks ago a very fantastic thing happened in my city, about live sports and so on.Context: soccer is the main sport, TVs buy the rights to transmit, and pays a big money for the whole season. But the two biggest teams didn't sold their rights, so TV can transmit the whole championship except for those two teams.When the confront of those two teams was about to happen, commercial controversy arose: the teams didn't accept a one-time-contract to that match because they estima

Probably due to live sports blackout policies and such.

I never watched sports but my kids want to, so tried to buy them subscription to some sport broadcaster.Bundesliga, F1, NHL and FIFA world cup, that's all I (they) needed.It turned to total mess. Service A shows F1 but not NHL. Service B shows NHL but not all NHL, only games where my city team plays. Some show LaLiga but not Bundesliga. All cost $30/mo but still show ads. Periodically they show ads instead of the event. If they can't, they split screen show the event in a li

I stopped my cable subscription a couple of years ago. I bought an antenna for live sports. I watch football, and my team is always broadcast on a local channel (I believe that it is always like that for NFL, because they know that they need to ensure their core fans can watch the game). I don't watch other sports much so I don't know how well this strategy would work.

NFL streaming has been a pain point, but MLB works. Haven't tried NHL or NBA yet.

None of your complaints have to do with technology. No one is stopping NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL/MLS/US Tennis/etc from adding a button on their website or app that lets you pay and watch a game.The thing stopping you from watching it easily is those organizations preferring to outsource broadcasting and ad sales to other media sellers who demand exclusivity terms that make it harder for you to watch.

I'm a Patriots fan and their game is on ESPN tonight - this is one of the 10%-20% weeks for me. :( The NFL network Thursday night game earlier this season against the Jets was another (fortunately I was in the actual stadium for that one). Red Sox games are only available on cable (NESN). Because I "cut the cord" this year I basically missed the Red Sox season (although, quite honestly, my interest in baseball has waned over the years anyway).It's felt like the tide has b

That's already the case if you want websites like ESPN3 or NBC Sports Live Extra.

I renovated vacation house and live in it for some time. It is in nature, no cable providers. Also, as I got older, I watched sports less and less, and now I follow only one sport team FC Barcelona, and sometimes I watch national team games, but not always.So my options are non existent. No cable service (btw, I do not own TV for more than 5 years now, not here nor in my flat in the city), I can't subscribe to any online sport streaming like Fox or Sky from my country. And if I could, wo

This has been said elsewhere but both GamePass and NHL.tv are good unless you want to watch local teams. Which of course is the primary desire of anyone who's a cord cutter (like me). I'm sure they are prohibited from providing local streams by the contracts they have already agreed to. Here is how bad those contracts can apparently be: here in Boston you can listen to NFL games on the radio, but if you try and stream that same radio station over the internet while a game is going on,