Leaders And Best

February 27th, 2020 at 3:51 PM ^

In this case, it is not. I am interested to see how this one plays out. This is not a new dispute for Sinclair.

YouTube TV isn’t alone in deciding that Fox Sports regionals are no longer worth the price. Dish Network dropped the channels from its satellite service and from Sling TV last summer, and FuboTV, a service that once prided itself on its live sports offerings, dropped them at the start of this year. PlayStation Vue, which had offered regional Fox Sports channels, shut down at the end of January. For cord-cutters who want to watch Fox Sports regionals without cable, Hulu + Live TV ($55 per month) and AT&T TV Now ($80 per month for the “Max” package) are the last remaining options.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90469248/youtube-tv-is-dropping-fox-sports-regionals

And the part I noted above that most people are missing--these regional networks are no longer owned by Fox despite the name:

The backstory here is that these channels are no longer owned by Fox, despite the name. When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, it agreed to divest Fox’s regional sports networks and sold them to Sinclair Broadcast Group for $9.6 billion. Sinclair may be looking for much higher carriage fees from TV providers to recoup its investment, but that plan could be backfiring as streaming providers balk and traditional TV continues to decline at historic rates.

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sharks

February 27th, 2020 at 4:03 PM ^

I switched a couple months ago from Hulu to YouTube because of the $10 increase and because Hulu's UI sucks.  I switched from Sling to Hulu a few months before that when Sling lost Fox.  YouTube was working for me, and since Sinclair seems like an awful company, I may just seek out extra-legal streams.  Getting tired of jumping every time there's a disagreement.

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Eph97

February 27th, 2020 at 5:09 PM ^

The networks and cable providers should all be mindful that eventually sports fans are just going to tune out if the prices keep going up. I already have more tv shows that I want to watch than I have time for just from Netflix and Amazon prime video. I really don't care at all about the Ohio pro sports teams anymore and its not just about wins and losses as I didn't even watch the world series when the Indians were in it, and I was a die hard fan in the 90's. The only sports I follow is college football and if Youtube TV raises the price anymore I'll drop it and get my college football for free from reddit streams.

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