Felonious Python
Minor League Degenerate
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The missing link in this discussion is that if you leave Bally, you need to not only get on TV, but have in-market streaming.
It's not an either/or, IMO.
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Bally Sports+ is $20/month. Pretty pricey, but it's also easier to cancel and resubscribe than cable.I still find it hard to believe that Amazon would make that investment and then not use the content to generate revenue via Amazon Prime Video so I am holding out hope they make the hockey package available for a fee so I can drop Spectrum.
The VPN is legal?Bally Sports+ is $20/month. Pretty pricey, but it's also easier to cancel and resubscribe than cable.
How much lower the price would be with Amazon is an unanswered question.
ESPN+ and a streaming VPN (Surfshark) would be a cheap, legal way to stream.
VPNs are legal in pretty much all democratic nations. If you've seen ads for NordVPN or Surfshark, those are VPNs.The VPN is legal?
TBL are still with Bally for another year. Bally Sports is even the presenting sponsor for the Thanksgiving game. TBL keeps renewing. It's not like they're stuck with Bally.After how badly Bally's executed last year I can't believe they did not trigger SLA's in the contract that would allow the Bolts to bail and go elsewhere. So, getting about a month out, where do we stand? Is it Bally's sports or nothing still?
Asked today about a harsh email last July from James Dolan — when the Knicks owner called the league’s new $77B media rights deal the potential "ruination" of the RSN model — Silver was quick to point out that, prior to that national deal, 18 of the league’s RSN had already gone defunct or entered bankruptcy. He then painted a rosier picture for the future, referencing a temporary 30-to-40% "dip" in local rights fees for 13 NBA teams due to Diamond Sports Group’s Chapter 11 but also "an interest" from streaming services that should increase rights fees shortly thereafter.
His comments lend even more credence to league-wide sentiment that either Amazon, Roku, YouTube — or some other streaming entity — will eventually take a conglomerate of between 15 and 20 teams and create a national streaming RSN somewhat similar to what the NFL does with Sunday Ticket. As of now, the league and Diamond have a court-approved single-year agreement to broadcast local games for those 13 NBA teams for this coming season, but that didn’t stop Silver from talking idealistically about the future.
An HFBoards sponsorship is $12/year, which will remove ads.Possibly Bally's will be available from Amazon Prime. Which may still be $20 a month but I hope Amazon will clean up technical issues.
Exclusive | Amazon nears major deal to broadcast NBA, MLB and NHL games on Prime streaming: sources
Amazon is in late-stage talks for a contract to livestream this coming season all the Bally Sports broadcasts of 12 NBA franchises, as well as five MLB teams and nine NHL teams, sources said.nypost.com
Also, this board now sucks trying to circumvent ad blockers and when you do it looks like a dystopian Blade Runner with about 40 video adds popping up all over the screen.