I'm kind of interested to know when NBCSN will actually go off the air. Since the start of 1/1/2022 ET, they've showed a loop of how programming has moved to USA. This is viewable and recordable. Technically speaking...is it truly off the air? Usually when these things happen, the provider will show some sort of card: "Such and such channel is off the air. We apologize for the inconvenience." I still think it was a bad idea. ABC has ESPN. CBS has CBS Sports Network. Fox has FS1. NBC has...a channel that shows a variety of live sports mixed in with reruns of Dick Wolf shows.
Depends on provider. I dual subscribe to DIRECTV Stream and Sling Blue. AT&T is showing the NBC-produced loop. Sling (and I presume Dish also) is using a provider-generated card.
And now, sometime in the last 2-3 days, U-Verse switched to a blue title card with a message about how it went off the air with programming moving. 1640 UMC with the program guide saying "Important Information Regarding NBCSN" in two-hour blocks.
Just looking up where the North London Derby is gonna be shown, and here's NBC's plan for this weekend's EPL... a glimpse of our future? And not a particularly pleasant one IMHO...
The blanks are USA. Arlo White and Lee Dixon are broadcasting Man City vs. Chelsea, and I'm wondering if it's the first time NBC used their announcers for a nontelevised game. Burnley vs. Leicester was postponed.
Aha. I should've cross-checked it with my TV's guide. However, I can say that not all the blanks are for USA... some are just blank, i.e. no TV broadcast, e.g. the North London Derby at 11:30am Sunday. I guess their website team haven't figured out how to scan the USA logo into the above table?
"Everything's streaming. Cancel your cable. Get Hulu." I'm just sitting here laughing. Karma. Hulu for at least $65/mo (no RSN) plus Peacock, Paramount+, Netflix, HBO Max...remind me again why it's popular to cancel cable for something relatively equal.
Everybody hates their cable company and fantasizes about the day they can finally send that box back and be done with them! Personally, as soon as a viable internet alternative is available at my house (starlink, 5G wireless, competing wired provider) which I'm expecting this year and next, im going to be live streaming my ride to the post office to send in my Comcast equipment. It's a day I've been dreaming about forever! Yes, I know that ultimately Comcast has a better value than I can get by piecing together internet and a few streaming platforms together, but very few things in my life have have generated as much hatred than Comcast. I hate every single thing about the company and I hope they go bankrupt tomorrow while the labor market is hot. I'll gladly pay a bit more and have a wonkier interface just to be done.
I guess I must be lucky. Other than the occasional glitch (all relatively easily solved), I've had no issues. Of course, I don't live in a Comcast area and have 1G fiber at my address. When it comes to price, the only major difference is the lack of rental equipment. You pay $30 or $40 whatever for a Chromecast or Roku and that beats $15 or even $45/mo for equipment...add DVR fees and multiple box fees. The cloud-based stuff is nice though. I'll admit that. I'm reminded of when Oliver Tse used to post here about Dish CEO Charlie Ergen being "Cheap Charlie" for his continued hardball at almost every channel negotiation. As streaming customers are finding out, that "cheap service" they have can have two meanings. It's asinine they can't get a deal signed for the RSNs. DirecTV Stream figured it out.
I like DIRECTV Stream since it basically replicates traditional pay TV, but without the equipment rental costs. Also, since my internet's through AT&T, I get the data cap removed for bundling.
Men in Blazer used to show up frequenly on NBCSN, every new episode. Last weekend I noticed that they shoved it to Peacock instead of USA. Perhaps that's its new permanent home.
Honestly in the last 2 years I have not watched any shows on cable beyond using it as background noise.. the ONLY thing I use cable for is for US Soccer and MLS broadcasts… Im considering cancelling the cable, so I checked ESPN+ to see how easy its to go back and watch old matches I might have missed… and its a clusterf*#k.. some matches are there, but no dates (unless u click on the tab that gives all the info including final score)…. sooo annoying
Wrong thread, but right conclusion https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/espn-soccer-thread.2031926/ p.s. That said, I'm not sure NBC, Paramount, or any of the other big sports streamers have any good way of watching content that's more than few months old, let alone years.
Adding to that theme of trying to stream old content... Yesterday I went looking for recent Men In Blazers episodes and came up dry. As noted before, as of 1/1/22 NBC shifted their first-run MIB airings from now-defunct NBCSN to Peacock. I've never ever watched MIB in real time. My DVR auto-recorded them, and it was a total PIECE OF CAKE to find and watch them, literally WITHIN 5 SECONDS of turning on my TV. Now in our "new and improved" world of streaming, I spent way too many minutes doing the following, all with NO SUCCESS: 1. Opened Peacock app, certain that the recent MIB shows would be there, since that's where they first aired... but nope... after hunting around, there is just one single show on Peacock... the first episode of this season... 4 months old. 2. Opened NBC Sports app... after trying to navigate their less than swift browser UI for EPL content, I find only 2 MIB shows from this season... 2 months old. Then trying NBCSports.com website which has a search button was no better, maybe worse. So for me this is exactly what @the5timechamp was lamenting about ESPN+. In short, it's a TOTAL FAIL by the content providers as they rush to move content from traditional broadcast TV to their streaming platforms. While they charge us more (paying for both old & new platforms) I see no other explanation, other than that they're not trying hard enough, or worse they just don't care for their customers enough. That could very well come back to haunt them. In a capitalist system, that SHOULD come back to haunt them. p.s. It's not like they can use any sort of copyright restriction argument for the MIB example, which they produce and presumably own outright in perpetuity.
I think it's a matter of those watching live have to watch commercials while you can fast forward through them if you watch later, so they're trying to make EVERYTHING appointment viewing.
All Men in Blazers episodes should be here: https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/ass...ers-show/4811460957095715112?section=episodes
So they are. For some reason when I did a search within Peacock yesterday that page only listed one show: S8E1. (I shoulda taken a screenshot) No idea why the list wasn't complete the first time. OK, so maybe that was just down to the vagaries of digital. But what if you wanted to watch anything before season 8? Why would NBC not provide anything even older on that same page? Is it just the laziness or lack of care that I speculated about in a prior post?
Wasn't sure of where to put this, but here's something that shows how much US and other markets will be crucial for the future: In the new rights package, overseas rights for the same period will be worth more than the domestic rights. Not by much (5.05 Billion to 5 Billion (all in English Pounds), but heck. A million here, a million there, sooner or later it adds up... https://theathletic.com/news/premie...ts-for-first-time-in-next-cycle/PCVIj5mN8OBk/
When I stream a match on the Peacock app on Roku, it's always 20-25 seconds behind what I can get out of the Peacock website. I've always assumed this is just some extra buffering/latency that Roku adds in. Can anyone confirm? And if so, why??? It's certainly annoying when you're watching a game live, and posting about it at the same time.
Because every year more and more stuff gets moved from cable to a streaming service, but the price of cable is not decreasing. Nor is the number of commercials that fill-up every channel. I'm about to cancel my cable. I'm too embarrassed to even indicate here how much I pay for Fios, but let's just say $4.17/month for Peacock looks like quite the deal in comparison. $5.83 for ESPN is even a better deal. And the King of all streaming deals - $4.99 for Paramount. Of course, cable is easier to use. One interface, quick channel changes, FF and RW live TV, watch things on tape delay, etc. Those things are all worth something and I'll miss that, but its not worth the price anymore. Even with something like the Olympics, 95% of the content is moved to streaming. So I'm stuck using a clunky streaming app either way.