NFL to announce webcast of regular season game

[AzorAhai]

NFL still values its relationship with CBS and FOX. They don't want ratings of the local affiliates to be cannibalized by ST being available to all cable companies.

Then Blackout anything broadcast locally on Sunday Ticket. That wouldn't be that difficult to do. Black out all games that would be shown in a subscribers local area on Fox, CBS, and all the prime time games. Nobody would care about not being able to watch games that are on locally on Sunday Ticket and if Fox and CBS are worried about people not tuning in to the crap games, stop showing crap games. Nobody wants to watch Jax @ Oak when good games are on. Besides, Fox and CBS would still get plenty of viewers. Not everyone will pay the extra price for Sunday Ticket no matter what.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

Strong VPN + NFL Game Pass = ALL games, any time, no blackouts. ~$260 a year to stream everything in HD (pre, regular and post season games, as well as coaches film, condensed game versions, etc.)

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Then Blackout anything broadcast locally on Sunday Ticket. That wouldn't be that difficult to do. Black out all games that would be shown in a subscribers local area on Fox, CBS, and all the prime time games. Nobody would care about not being able to watch games that are on locally on Sunday Ticket and if Fox and CBS are worried about people not tuning in to the crap games, stop showing crap games. Nobody wants to watch Jax @ Oak when good games are on. Besides, Fox and CBS would still get plenty of viewers. Not everyone will pay the extra price for Sunday Ticket no matter what.

They do.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Strong VPN + NFL Game Pass = ALL games, any time, no blackouts. ~$260 a year to stream everything in HD (pre, regular and post season games, as well as coaches film, condensed game versions, etc.)

But you can't watch them live except for preseason. My understanding is that you can't watch a regular season game until an hour after broadcast.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

But you can't watch them live except for preseason. My understanding is that you can't watch a regular season game until an hour after broadcast.

Not true at all. The live feed starts and keeps the same time as the broadcast (regular and post season). There is absolutely ZERO restrictions to viewing ANY game and you even get to toggle the different audio commentary (national broadcasters or local homer commentary spilling their Cowboy hate).

Also, I don't know how this Sunday Ticket works, but with Game Pass, you can watch the games anytime and you can even put settings in to block all game scores so that you don't have to race to the couch at kick off (just have to stay away from FB and other sources). That was a big selling point when you live in Europe and don't want to stay up for 2am kickoffs.

Get up at 7-8am, make coffee and start the game. You can pause it when you need to, rewind it to catch that ridiculously biased call in favor of the Giants, switch the audio feed when you've heard enough of Collinsworth choking on Russell Wilson's plums, slow-mo to watch Murray lay the hit on the DBs, and if you are into Fantasy Football, you can choose the condensed version and knock those boring AFC games out at about 25-30 minutes a pop.