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How can they not have an app?Now to be fair you left out those great infomercials.
How can they not have an app?Now to be fair you left out those great infomercials.
How can they not have an app?
Lol. Local stations have apps. Their normal website is so hard to navigate with things constantly loading. Horrible website.I loaded NESNgo onto my iPhone awhile ago, and opened it for the first time today after reading this...wow. It's more bare bones than I thought - it's only a portal to get a live feed (if you have a participating provider).
You'd think they'd set something up with links to the articles they already have on the main site, and scores/standings from the 5 leagues with teams in the Boston area, along with some info on local college sports. Nope.
I'm glad to hear they're changing things up. Graphics have been a disaster for the past 2 years, and that weird "Watertown audio" effect just seems unprofessional in 2018.
Just a general question here on NESN/NESN Go. We're going to be out of town for the holiday weekend, and I'm wondering if you can watch the game in it's entirety on the app or online? Does it have to be live? I would appreciate any advice or guidance on how to watch the games this weekend. Thanks in advance.
As long as your cable provider has you living in New England ( except Fairfield County, Connecticut) you can watch NESNgo anywhere on the planet. They don't offer archived replays like NBC does you simply get whatever NESN or NESNplus is airing.
4k TICKER HERE WE COME!!!!any idea when we might get NESN in 4k?
my guess would be once it is obsolete.any idea when we might get NESN in 4k?
NESN hopped on to HD very early in the game went it first came out.my guess would be once it is obsolete.
NESN hopped on to HD very early in the game went it first came out.
4k TICKER HERE WE COME!!!!
That ****ing ticker is the bane of my hockey viewing existence!
NESN shouldn't either.Oddly enough NESNgo doesn't use the ticker.
NESN shouldn't either.
I know we've had this discussion before, but honestly why do they insist on it? They can use a different graphics package for in game stuff for the Red Sox, since they tend to cram stuff into the ticker. Hockey doesn't need that.
And if their only other reasoning is for showing the out of town scores, run it during intermissions. No one curious about the score of the Leafs/Habs game going on concurrently is going to wait for it to scroll by on the bottom of the screen. They are going to check their phone, and get the answer in 10 seconds max.
It's stupid, pointless, and outdated. i don't get why they hang onto it.
What motivation do the decision makers at NESN have to change the product? It’s not as if the customer has options and can watch on another network if they want. It’s a captive audience.
I want to stress the people working at NESN Watertown during a Bruins or Red Sox are very talented - but they have no idea what the finished product looks like for viewers at home. NBC/Comcast has developed a local commercial insertion system that can change by NEIGHBORHOOD using zip codes.
Crew people who work events in Boston are highly regarded on network productions - and most RSN's report that feeds from TD Garden and Fenway are at the top of the industry.
We KNOW that NESN's hockey graphics are the among worst in the NHL but that is what upper management wants. Only AT&T is worse in Pittsburgh and Vegas. For baseball, NESN's graphics are much better
It is what it is
What motivation do the decision makers at NESN have to change the product? It’s not as if the customer has options and can watch on another network if they want. It’s a captive audience.
The Vancouver audio was the worst I have ever heard. The commentators were coming out of the wrong speakers and the center speaker was silent. I was going back and forth with the Dodgers game to make sure it wasn't my AVR. It wasn't.NESN had problems with the feed from Vancouver but they were caused by the distributor that NESN uses - Comcast/NBC Universal in Colorado The signal came into Watertown fine and left fine but then NESN loses control of it.
NBC can provide local insertion of ads that NESN could never do and they do the same for Cox and Spectrum. They are also doing this for numerous other RSN's. It also means NESN needs fewer staffers in Watertown but that is another kettle of fish. BTW the ticker is inserted in Colorado which is why you don't see it on NESNgo.
Tonight in Vancouver we used a truck from NBC's vendor in Pittsburgh, NEP, and it was the same truck in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
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The truck provides 2 feeds - one directly to NESN in Watertown with the virtual ads behind the net and another to NHL.tv without the ads.
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There have been major issues behind the scenes at NESN as Tom Werner continues to look for ways to cut costs. I could not talk to you 2 years ago about why there were audio problems at home games - now that the court case is over I can.
NESN Broadcast Technicians Benched For Unionizing
Informational Picket - IBEW Local 1228 Broadcast Technicians
I get my health insurance through NBC and Comcast has been very good to me since I signed up with them to work the NHL on OLN. Nobody knew in 2005 that OLN would become NBC Sports. I still work as a contractor for NESN but usually on the road. This is a brutal business now and it is what it is.
When John Harrington ran NESN he took care of the workers as his Dad drove a streetcar on the old MTA. Papa Jacobs is also very fair as he grew up in blue-collar Buffalo. 15 years ago NESN was the BEST RSN in the US to work for - now it is the worst and it is all because of a man who became wealthy producing Cosby and Roseanne.
John Henry is starting to make changes as he knows firing Don Orsillo was a major blunder.
It will take time to undo the damage.