Ducks to Broadcast Every Game for Free

[Crosstraffic]

I wish the Kings could pull the same deal with one of the other Socal channels that would work. (KTLA 5 (owned by Nexstar and a CW affiliate), KCAL 9 (CBS owned and operated as an independent, currently shows news 8-10:30pm, after a 2 hour block of Family Feud (repeats and new eps), and KPAX 30, Scripps owned and operated as Ion, which currently shows 24/7 reruns of shows like Law and Order, Chicago PD and Blue Bloods)

 

[rojac]

So all Ducks and Stars games are free in Victory+ ?

Guess I’ll use Victory+ when the Oilers play those team instead of using Pirate+

You'll need a VPN with a server within the TV territory of the team you want to watch - although it's possible that they might block all VPN access. These are still regional games so they will limited to the team's TV territory.

 

[Andre Palot]

Good.

The Caps/Qatar seem hell bent on forcing Caps fans to have to sign up to their monument sports network for $20 a month to watch Caps games ..

The Devils/Rangers/Islanders are in a similar boat with their streaming service as well.

 

[SmokeyDuck]

it's 'free' but 70% of the air time is devoted to sports betting ads

So no different than it is currently? Minus the exorbitant price of cable/satellite.

Very intelligent, mature, necessary and totally unbiased take.

Agreed on Ahlers, though Hayward is a troll and it entertains me lol.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Pens/Pirates have a streaming service for $18 a month now. Instead of paying $85 a month on cable just to watch hockey it’s now been decoupled. Thank God.

NESN has it for $30 per month. Outrageous.

 

[SpinoramaGeno]

So VPN to Anaheim for games?

 

[Wretched Oil]

I’m a cynic, whats the catch?

Ain’t no such thing as a free lunch

You have to watch every commercial

 

[biturbo19]

Pens/Pirates have a streaming service for $18 a month now. Instead of paying $85 a month on cable just to watch hockey it’s now been decoupled. Thank God.

Sometimes i feel like i'm living in an alternate reality, when people say things like this. Different markets, but for ages, i've had "cable" way beyond what is necessary to just watch the regional teams hockey games (2 teams even), and massively more including on demand access to multiple services that cost more than $18 by themselves (like HBO, Crave, Starz, whatever)...for like half that. It's smaller than my internet bill when bundled together.


I absolutely hate the way that everything has fragmented into a million pieces so i have to have a plethora of different subscriptions now, that add up to more than just...having everything on one service. Decoupling is ass in terms of a user experience as well, when you have to always keep track of where any particular content is going on any given item and constantly shifting over time.

Like now it's so decoupled i'm gonna have to get another stupid service i don't necessarily want, if i want to watch certain games in Canada and they're on Amazon? Which i have anyway, but it's so dumb. And bad.



Free games for local area is pretty wicked for Ducks fans, and other teams that have gone that direction. Back to the days when your basic TV package covered you off pretty well.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

it's 'free' but 70% of the air time is devoted to sports betting ads

Usually you pay and 70% of the air time is dedicated to betting ads...

 

[Ford Prefect]

I wonder what the players think? How does this effect the HRR?

 

[Canucks LB]

They're all Ducks games

Lmao 10/10

 

[Timeless Winter]

This is fantastic. Wish the CBJ would move to a streaming service. Bally Sports sucks.