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The end of an era
The end of an era
Any hockey fans out there know what happened to CBC's Hockey night in Canada ? Just saw where they cancelled it . That's almost the same as cancelling MNF .
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Capitalism. The public broadcaster could no longer compete with Sportsnet and the like. Money, money, money. Also, we used to be able to watch all the local Winnipeg Jets games on TV every season. Last year they pulled 4 of them and put them on paid streaming services. This season I think it’s up to 8 that you have to pay to watch. Gotta love that Capitalist system. It works really well for the guys at the top.
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While I somewhat agree with Gus, it's not Capitalism, it's manipulating and adding special attention to certain games, in the USA you can buy an NFL Pass and can watch every game, but unless you want to watch every game it's quite expensive, it's GREED pure and simple, and not just capitalism
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Every game that's not on Peacock, ESPN, Prime, Netflix....Unless you're in market, then you always get it on broadcast/over the air anyway...These sold off slates of games really have people questioning the value of Sunday Ticket all over again....Happy for the ladies to land on HNIC hope that helps people embrace them even more than they already have..It's a good product!
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I won't ever pay for Sunday Ticket again, too many games are *not* on Sunday Ticket to make it worth it. If I am paying to watch my favorite team that is out of market, many of their games are on national or streaming services. So I'm paying something like $700 to watch maybe 6 or 7 games. $100 to watch a single game on TV? No thanks.
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Everyday people are getting squeezed out of everything - I quit going to games because it was exorbitant, now they want to make watching on TV beyond our means. I bought the Dodgers SNLA+ in market package from MLB.tv for $30 a month but there are even blackouts with that. Every weekend, it seems like, at least 1 if not 2 Dodger games are on Fox, NBC or Apple and I refuse to pay more for those games. That's what IHeart Radio is for !!
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At the start of the season I paid 99.99 for Mariners tv . When the first game aired , I could not watch it because it said I needed a subscription . I called customer service and the first ? they asked me was what city do the Mariners play in . I asked for a refund immediately . They don't care about you the consumer .
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@sheikyerboudi NFL fans have it just as bad, if not even worse tbh. Have you SEEN the level of greed attached to viewing NFL games at home the last few season? And it gets even worse when you consider that at least an MLB season lasts half a year with a game almost every day for each team. The NFL season lasts a mere 17 weeks at one game per week per team
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I got a month of youtube tv with a promo just to watch the baseball playoffs - I'm watching whatever football is on during this month, but I don't care enough about football to pay to watch otherwise.
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I am fortunate enough that my T-Mobile plan came with a full MLB.tv subscription. Which I have paid for in the past. I am a Royals fan so I could watch al their games except where I live in the Tampa area. Rays are blacked out. In a month or so I will be living on New Hampshire and it will probably be the RedSox blacked out. Don't care, lol!
I can watch pretty much ant NHL game on ESPN+ because my cable package comes with the Disney+ package.
With that I also get Appletv+ paramount+ and peacock all included. Cable companies are starting to add these aps so people won't drop them and go wireless.
The ESPN+ comes with pretty much every college game in a ton of sports.
On Sunday I do pay $10 per month during the NFL season to be able to see into all the games.
So I am fortunate I don't miss out on much, but we will see what the Granite State has to offer soon. Live Free or Die.
I can watch pretty much ant NHL game on ESPN+ because my cable package comes with the Disney+ package.
With that I also get Appletv+ paramount+ and peacock all included. Cable companies are starting to add these aps so people won't drop them and go wireless.
The ESPN+ comes with pretty much every college game in a ton of sports.
On Sunday I do pay $10 per month during the NFL season to be able to see into all the games.
So I am fortunate I don't miss out on much, but we will see what the Granite State has to offer soon. Live Free or Die.
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