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I think Breezeline will still have NESN. They kinda suck but all I can get where I am in Rochester. Across the street can get Xfinity but I can't
NESN may soon vanish from Xfinity
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easton117
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Out of curiosity, do you use the centre ice package?
I’ve been using that this season primarily. The other night they blacked out the Leafs Bruins game. I can’t remember, had that ever happened before on that platform?
Was going to watch that one late. Turns out I couldn’t. Was beyond irritated lol
Ugh..I have Xfinity. I'm not trying to lose it. It bad enough with Comcast jacking up prices all the damn time.
WhalerTurnedBruin55
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And people wonder why others go through illegal means to watch games.Like the fans aren't paying for it in the end anyway regardless of the outcome...
All this nonsense of rights and specific providers having content is bad for the consumer. Consumer will stop consuming or find other means.
WhalerTurnedBruin55
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Ditched cable years ago and never looked back.
NHL.tv (with a VPN) worked out well for a number of years for me. Although it sounds like there's more hoops to jump through and incomplete coverage with the current setup.
Morris Wanchuk
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Once the bruins get past the first round sling TV is an option as they have TNT.
Direct to stream has all the channels.
Direct to stream has all the channels.
DominicT
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I use the Roger's super sports pak which includes center ice, mlb, nfl, ohl and ncaa for 5 bucks a month more than center ice on it's own. If a game is blacked out it's because it's on one of the Sportsnet channels or TSN and I have them too. Every Bruins game has been available for me.
Red Sox ratings are down but they still are 3X's what the Bruins and Celtics average but 10-15 years ago the ratio was 5X.
NESN firing Don Orsillo after the 2015 season was a blunder they have not recovered from.
NESN is really frustrated that Massachusetts will not approve sports betting as that is costing them millions in advertising on both baseball and hockey.
Those of you with Fios and DirecTV will see the Bruins in 4K today and I will be curious on your feedback.
To be fair YouTubeTV blew off regional sports channels nationwide.
UncleRico
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I don’t think YouTubeTV was necessarily at fault for that. The company that owns those fox regional sports networks lost all their providers except for AT&T. Now AT&T might be losing those as well to the companies direct to consumer app. Complete shit show over there.
Sad to see NESN following Sinclair in continuing to drop providers.
I'm moving to Somerville in July after 7 years of being in NY. NHL.tv and now Espn+ have been great because I can pay a reasonable fee to watch all the Bruins games. We have Hulu live on top of that for TNT and all the random stuff my fiance likes to watch.
But moving back in-market for NESN, I don't know what to do. I'm not getting a cable box after years without one (talk about obsolete tech), Fubu's channel lineup isn't as good as Hulu's even though they carry Nesn, and I'm not paying for both.
It's like Nesn wants people to illegally stream their games lol.
But moving back in-market for NESN, I don't know what to do. I'm not getting a cable box after years without one (talk about obsolete tech), Fubu's channel lineup isn't as good as Hulu's even though they carry Nesn, and I'm not paying for both.
It's like Nesn wants people to illegally stream their games lol.
mjhfb
Easier from up here
WhalerTurnedBruin55
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VPN is a legal option. It's ridiculous you have to jump through hoops.
WhalerTurnedBruin55
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Well, doesn't seem like the rest of Comcast is all that important.
That there is crux of the problem.
ESPN+ and many other services are privy to VPNs these days. They block VPN IPs.
edit: may be an issue with my VPN and not all VPNs.
WhalerTurnedBruin55
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Understandable, worked for me several years ago (Tunnel Bear), but again I think it's absurd they put all these roadblocks just to watch hockey.
Don't care about cable TV, so don't know why there just isn't a simple option, that doesn't involve paying for all this stuff you don't need/want to just watch 82-90+ game a year.
Correct. With Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, I’m already in decent shape. For the time being NESN and TNT are requirements for me during hockey season
If Comcast doesn’t provide NESN and TNT i have no reason to give them my money. At that point it would be about finding the best value for decent internet service
NESN, Xfinity and ALL of these cable companies and networks are crooks. At this point they can shove it all sideways. I can live without cable and if forced to, I'll figure out how to have internet access, somehow. We are all, simply put, PAWNS! They're killing the golden goose.
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I am about as manic a Bruin fan as they get. But I am nearly at the end of my rope in terms of Cable bills, streaming add ons, and the general pain in the ass that is now watching tv.
I pay outrageous money for Xfinity -- money that in my view is over the top. For years I've been too lazy to tackle the pain in the ass that is involved in doing something concrete about it. But if I start to lose things I've paid for, then I will change.
And no NESN and Boston Bruins -- I will not leap through excessive hoops to find you. From the Bruins perspective that will hurt but I will somehow live through seeing fewer games. From NESN perspective I'll be more than fine.
Watch yourself Bruins -- now is not the time to f*** around with the fan base. Me thinks some lean years are coming as the cupboard is not loaded -- empty seats in the Garden and vacant tv sets is no bueno and not an impossibility.
I pay outrageous money for Xfinity -- money that in my view is over the top. For years I've been too lazy to tackle the pain in the ass that is involved in doing something concrete about it. But if I start to lose things I've paid for, then I will change.
And no NESN and Boston Bruins -- I will not leap through excessive hoops to find you. From the Bruins perspective that will hurt but I will somehow live through seeing fewer games. From NESN perspective I'll be more than fine.
Watch yourself Bruins -- now is not the time to f*** around with the fan base. Me thinks some lean years are coming as the cupboard is not loaded -- empty seats in the Garden and vacant tv sets is no bueno and not an impossibility.
Bettman wants to grow the NHL to non-traditional markets like China etc but he/they make it hard for die-hard fans to watch. All he has to do is look at the NFL and how they're everywhere, all the time with no bullshit AND 5K. Added to the backwardness
of the NHL, cable companies squeezing the consumer for every last cent will hopefully cause a backlash and force the gub-ment to wake up and realize that monopolies etc are running rampant. They broke up Ma-Bell only to sell out to so many other entities since then. The age of consumerism is over.
You mean Red Sox.
Bruins have little to no say in what majority Red Sox owned NESN does.
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