It was already worse than 2 subscriptions before… now they ensured that people who are dumb enough to give them money could not say “well, I guess I can skip Monday games”
So they have segmented the broadcast further; showing zero care or respect for their customer base in Canada
In time this will backfire badly. We used to be a fam who watched Hockey when our kids were little, because of that my now grown son had asked to “get back into it” (we had already given up) so we pirated the feeds because it’s cheaper and better service than any official broadcast partner. He could not believe we needed to check the NHL site to find out which service was carrying “today’s game”
It is easy to see how so many families would just decide to go without and the fan-hood that is passed from parents to kids as they watched sports as a family would be over. Even now, most of my sons’ friends could not care less about Hockey which was definitely not the case in my generation. Good job Bettman!
Reading this thread makes me so happy I long ago lost interest in watching sports. It sounds like a complete headache to be a fan of any sport these days.
It’s all advertisement anyway.
Seems to be about equally expensive as a normal streaming service.
It’s free. They have premium servers, but it’s free otherwise. Or am i missing something?
When I try to click on the games on the homepage, it says I need a premium account. Am I missing something?
Edit: I see—it’s only for the things labeled “other events” that premium is required. No horsie racing for me, I guess. ☹️
Good to know. Sorry for the disappointment. I never tried to watch those programs.
Is gostreameast.link the same thing?
Seems to be. Not sure why the color scheme is different (at least on my end)
NFL isn’t bad, at least if you just want to follow your home team. The games are still broadcast free over the air, just got to buy a $20 antenna and you’re set for life.
Um, only Sunday games are available OTA. If you live in the market where your team plays you might get Monday and Thursday games OTA if you’re lucky.
At least in my market all national games are simulcast OTA for local teams. I think. Definitely Monday night football.
Not only is watching sports harder it’s littered with cheating because betting was let get it’s hooks in it.
You’ll never know if you’re watching a legitimate game… looking at you NBA.
These greedy sports teams are going to lose our young people since they can’t watch… and they won’t have many fans in the future
It’s a microcosm of…points at everything everywhere.
Football and basketball are still good, but pretty sure baseball is losing popularity especially amount younger fans. This isn’t helping either.
Europeans trying to watch all their football team’s games: First time?
But isn’t that because of different leagues and cup tournaments. In the US they split the games from a single league across different subscriptions. At least in my country in Europe the main football league is just one subscription.
In Germany, to have all Bundesliga games available you’d need DAZN and Sky. I also looked up Premier League in UK and apparently you’d need Sky and TNT there. Those are the respective top national leagues. Champions League is also split up between Amazon Prime and Paramount+ and the finale might be available on Netflix exclusively.
oh wow that sucks. Here in the Netherlands I can get both Bundesliga and Premier League from Viaplay under one subscription. Champions League, La Liga and Seria A from Ziggo and Eredivisie from ESPN. Still not great but no splitting leagues across different providers. yet.
Same deal with F1, couldnt renew my F1 sub without getting apple TV. Ive never owned an apple product in my life, not gonna sub to their garbage. Bye F1tv.
While it pains me to mention reddit, a certain sub has allowed me to watch basically any region or subscription locked broadcast for F1 and IMSA event I’ve wanted for a while. Just need to make sure the ad blocker is up. There is zero chance I’m subbing to Peacock to watch a handful of sportscar races throughout the year
F1 is enshittified boring shit anyway.
I agree, I dislike the vendor lock-in. But to be fair, you don’t have to own an Apple product to watch Apple TV Plus, and honestly, some of their content is quite good. Roku and even a PS5 can stream content from that network. That being said, the vendor lock-in is reason enough to boycott them.
Reminds me of this page which I can’t believe isn’t a parody: Where to Watch Pokémon Episodes & Movies | Pokemon.com
How Expensive is it to Watch the Entire Pokemon Anime Legally?
He ends up with $1195, which includes some Japanese dvd exclusives, but seriously what the fuck.
Might want to clean up your link. It points to your YouTube account.
Thanks. Sneaky bullshit.
Me: Well, at least I can watch for free on CBC on Saturday nights.
Rogers: Yoink!
I would never give these billionaire fucks a dime. I’d rather go watch beer leagues at the local rink.
Welcome to watching sports in 2026 😭
Oh is this another one of those shitty things we have been leading the world with in the UK?
I think we’ve had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years
*You still miss half the matches played because of the Saturday 3pm blackout, which prohibits those matches being broadcast
They are just begging for you to find a good pirate service and stop giving them money… you should definitely honour their wishes
I think we’ve had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years
One of my pirate feeds for the World Cup had an annoying “Scan this QR Code to pay for your TV license” graphic in the corner. How do you people live like that?
Just looked it up for Germany: Sky and DAZN for Bundesliga, Amazon Prime and Paramount+ (what?) for Champions League and apparently the CL final game is rumored to be aired on Netflix exclusively.
You need two different subscriptions to stream Premier League matches in America. I thought that was bad enough. But the UK situation sounds significantly worse.
ESPN+ was actually good if your team is in another TV market, but not broadcasting all the national playoff games was ridiculous - cancelled it.
I’m very close to Canada, bought try an antenna to grab the CBC broadcast.
Should we tell him?
Sorry the grammar in my comment was terrible. Thinking about getting an antenna, will this not work the way I imagine?
The CBC is no longer going to broadcast hockey games
So there is officially no point to the CBC. Certainly not their “journalism”.
Gerd dangit
I just wanna give a shout-out to the Blab, who has been illegally broadcasting Mets and Rangers games (and other stuff, including jeopardy and Seinfeld) for more than a decade now. I gave you like .01btc in 2017 or 2018, and that’s definitely a lot more now than it was then, but you deserve it.
My dad has been complaining about this kind of thing for baseball. The subscription to watch games online specifically blacks out home games because…l fuck you I guess? He’s paying for the service but he still needs to either use a VPN or pirate just to watch some of the games.
WWE fans crying (we have 3-5 subscriptions for all our shows
I think the NFL was 7 that you needed if you wanted to watch every game. It’s crazy. And they play some games internationally now so some games air at really weird times.
