Sports Media

[andyb]

Baseball and other sports have more to lose though. That Peacock game last Sunday was not on local channels. Nor is the Apple TV game on Friday. And the NBA has much more on streaming too with all the Amazon games.

Trump may have a grudge against the NFL but he is also buddies with many of the owners. The demographic of billionaires who are not necessarily civic minded is his demographic.

[zambonir]

Well, the good news is you might not get to see the Phillies tonight (Apple TV). Sixers only on Amazon too.

Streaming services will make it an annoying night for Philly sports fans

[schillingfan]

This drives me crazy. I have to go to each team’s website to find out where to watch them. When they are on YouTube, they know I want to watch and show me on the home page.

[zambonir]

The home screen on my Google TV does the same thing (huge ad for the Sixers game, smaller box for Phillies on Apple) but that only works if you have subscriptions (I do have Apple, I don't typically have Prime). But yeah with YTTV you no longer need to know the channel numbers or even what network the Phillies are on (NBC Philly, one of their alternates, FS1, Fox)... as long as they are on.

Also spoiled by YouTube multiview though NBC Sports Philly isn't friendly to that anyway.

[andyb]

Interesting article on seeing streaming games in bars. I am just assuming that bars are not really interested in this EverPass media creation. A bar I go to for instance has Direct TV and the NFL ticket package but they don't have Prime or Peacock. Whenever there is a big game I have seen the bartender login with their Amazon account. Probably not legal,, but it is just going to happen and it is hard to police. I wonder if bars don't bother to do this in the regular season for anything other than the NFL.

Why is watching the NBA playoffs at a bar harder than it should be?

[zambonir]

I was wondering about this. Didn't Apple/MLS have a separate free thing for bars originally? Now part of that I guess.

Most bars here can probably have Peacock if they have Comcast (and those games are also on TV anyway) but the Prime game tonight.... I wonder what Comcast's own sports bar (now Stateside Live) is doing. I don't currently have Prime myself though I have a $1.99 for 7 days offer if I buy something today (how they get ya, of course). Will probably just watch baseball.

[EastFallowfield]

Kinda cool to see Cristopher Sanchez pop up in ad for TNT Sports instead of Harper or Schwarber, but using a weird cover of "Every Breath You Take" was off putting, as I've always heard as a song about a stalker, not a love song as some people do.

Can't find the ad online, but here's the cover song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWOheNg4RYE