Following the prior paragraph, wow here’s Comcast already losing more sports content too. They deserved to lose, and to lose more too, until they finally shed their East Coast US cable TV mentality.
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As we have said multiple times things are migrating back to broadcast TV. There is no future on Cable TV and this is just another indication that this is where things are going. Be it Indy Car going to Fox or the CW picking up the ACC and WSU/OSU games - this is not going to stop anytime soon.
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Look how bad things can go with streaming even in 2024 akin to as if it is still 2020.
Instead of putting the Euro 2024 games on one of their Fox streaming apps, Fox elected to sublease some games to another streaming service, to which users would in turn have to sign up.
This is going a route worse than Comcast with Peacock mind you!
If the game is exclusively on streaming or simulcast, at least put it on your own service and make access easy, such as does CBS Sports for many sports and as does the CFL.
Now to be fair, Fox does make access easy via its own website, akin to the CFL, for games airing on Fox broadcast.
What a concept that has been at hand for years that already works there instead of some clunky app with a new subscription and all that noise!
And so there is all the incentive for viewers to simply go to Pirate Sports Network.
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Sports and Event Saturation and Critical Timing for Scheduling
I cross-post the following example here via the UFL and Executive Vice President for Football Operations of the UFL, Daryl Johnston of also Fox Sports and their NFL coverage.
He’s also Jerry Jones’ inside man after you read between the lines for years now, and such informal or formal arrangements are the norm between various NFL owners and the US media.
Note in Johnston’s comments the new and recently necessary emphasis and heightened awareness with regards to the timing of scheduling on TV, with the broadcast TV time now more valuable than ever on prime time, weekends, and holidays, in our post-pandemic times.
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Curious, with CFL+ do you not need to watch adds between plays as well during quarter change and halftime? I’m not tec savvy, I have know idea
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No, you can just advance (FFWD) the video
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In the US via CFL+, all we have seen this year are some CFL promotional ads but nothing private, which feels like a missed opportunity for advertising revenue for the CFL.
I suppose I could pause the ads and then just forward when the action resumes, but I figure why bother?
Last year, the ads on CFL+ were apparently part of some strange avant garde black-and-white film experiment that cruelly lasted the entire season. Fin.
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Question, after using CFL+ can you retain the game for months possible longer. IE: if your team won the GC could you watch it a year later when your idiot brother’s team gets beat by your team, then watch it when he finally visits?
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yes and no. There are people who know how to record the CFL+ stream. I am not one of those people but it involves downloading aps and such. Without such devices it only gets preserved for 48 hours on the site. Then you have to look for alternative sources like Youtube.
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Check out Dave Volsky’s Back Door on YT. His stuff is amazing.
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Thanks @Tedtanium1976, I know many people who cut the cord so to speak, then spend many hours trying to figure out how to watch their favorite games and programs often unable to watch them. Then tell me they save $$$. I ask how much? They can’t answer as everything changes week to week while they switch from App to App to manage their programing and costs. I pay under $120 monthly. Done and done, any program I had recorded in the past IE: Survivor (for my wife) or Bonanza (for me) will automatically record when the next series begins, works great as some programs begin while we’re on vacation.
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As a long time cord cutter this is untrue. First if there is a specific program or team you absolutely must watch you don’t cut the service where it is available, that’s stupid. I’ve never missed a game that I wanted to see, everything is available by hook or by crook without any app being involved. Depending on what you mean by “app” I’ve never used one in my life.
Cord cutting has a very loose definition, I guess I am hard core as I don’t pay for anything. I get all my content via FAST services or OTA or YT and the occasional CFL+ type deal.
Others consider cord cutting to be getting rid of cable or satellite which to my mind is ridiculous if you have signed up for so many services: Disney, Netflix etc they cost more than the cable.
If a person needs to watch specific programs cord cutting isn’t for them but also $120 is a pretty hefty TV bill. I don’t know how someone can watch that much TV
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Too much work for me. A $120 monthly is a bargain, we my wife and I don’t go the movies or order movies, order Skip or other delivery programs, have Tattoos or body piercings, have a gym membership we get more than enough work in our yard, mostly we cook for ourselves and our guests, occasionally go out dinner but rarely fast-food. We have a large property and keep it in park like condition infact we have friends and family who camp here regularly. We do enjoy our winter vacations and our homestead…I guess everyone places value in what they enjoy most.
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You sound like what used to be called “normal” 
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Being serious here, $120 sounds like a lot, what are you getting for it? Not being critical just curious. You get basic channels and then movie and sports packages or is this for everything.
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We grow much of our veggies & herbs, make preserves, dry the herbs for winter use. We have 5 acres and groom the yard weekly, 8 gardens, weed and tilled and trim in excess of 500 trees, remove some and add some, which is also our fire wood supply, we mostly make home cooked meals. We are old, but we are also old sole people. Won’t change it until we can no longer manage it. It’s our very own paradise.
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I’d say you’re correct, that’s what we get, we rarely watch any movies though,
Edit for additional information: the money we save adding and removing Tattoos, pays for our satellite bill
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I was going to go into a long lecture about FAST services but it sounds like you are living too good a life to bother with it. I don’t watch movies either which is too bad because I have access to a billion of them. I wish I could post my channel playlist I think people would be surprised to see what you can get free and legally
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Getting even more off topic, you reminded me of this. I don’t know if many people know about it
Alec Falkenham, Dalhousie student, develops tattoo removal cream
How much work does it take to find and record programs such as
World Junior
CFL (all games)
NHL some games
Olympic some events
Old programs like, I love Lucy, Bonanza…
Reality programs like Survivor, Amazing Race…
Just as an example, keep in mind I’m tec stupid
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