Yankees, Sinclair, and Amazon Acquire YES

[LostAnvil]

The same way fans of the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Liberty, and Red Bulls watch their teams' games. By having a cable subscription. YES is on the most basic of service plans and you can get it pretty easily. I don't want to be rude, but I don't see fans of any other NY sports team complaining about this the way people here do.

aren't NYCFC/MLS fans statistically younger than the other sports? which means more streamers and cord-cutters - I almost literally have every subscription available and I now have no way to watch the games without a cable subscription - YES should provide a subscription service since they're insistent on going this route and having their own app - otherwise the games are going to get pirated, which apparently since all but 5 games this season are on YES, is what I'm going to have to do

 

[FredMertz]

The same way fans of the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Liberty, and Red Bulls watch their teams' games. By having a cable subscription. YES is on the most basic of service plans and you can get it pretty easily. I don't want to be rude, but I don't see fans of any other NY sports team complaining about this the way people here do.

SNY & MSG are n Fubo.

 

[canchon]

SNY & MSG are n Fubo.

YES was on Hulu as well until it got cut last year due to a pricing dispute I believe. So it’s not crazy to have local sports on streaming platforms.

 

[ZYanksRule]

aren't NYCFC/MLS fans statistically younger than the other sports? which means more streamers and cord-cutters - I almost literally have every subscription available and I have now have no way to watch the games without a cable subscription - YES should provide a subscription service since they're insistent on going this route and having their own app - otherwise the games are going to get pirated, which apparently since all but 5 games this season are on YES, is what I'm going to have to do

YES not being on ANY streaming services tells me this isn't their choice. It tells me this is on the streaming platforms for not coming to a deal with YES.

 

[LostAnvil]

YES not being on ANY streaming services tells me this isn't their choice. It tells me this is on the streaming platforms for not coming to a deal with YES.

they were on Sling, and Fubo, and Hulu, and I'm sure others before they suddenly weren't - that actually tells me the opposite: it's YES/Sinclair's fault - it's like when you know someone who claims they've had nothing but crazy ex's - maybe it's time to tell them that they're actually the crazy one

 

[Gotham Gator]

YES not being on ANY streaming services tells me this isn't their choice. It tells me this is on the streaming platforms for not coming to a deal with YES.

It tells me the opposite. This isn't 1 streaming service that can't come to terms with them. It's all the streaming services.

And it only started happening once ownership of YES changed.

 

[sbrylski]

The same way fans of the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Liberty, and Red Bulls watch their teams' games. By having a cable subscription. YES is on the most basic of service plans and you can get it pretty easily. I don't want to be rude, but I don't see fans of any other NY sports team complaining about this the way people here do.

I'm a customer of MLS, and they're not entitled to my eyeballs. It's their problem if I can't watch games, not mine. If I wanted a cable subscription, I would have one regardless of whether NYCFC was on one of the channels. If "pretty easily" means paying $50+/mo just to watch three or four NYCFC games, sometimes tape delayed, there's a distribution issue.

 

[Shwafta]

I'm a customer of MLS, and they're not entitled to my eyeballs. It's their problem if I can't watch games, not mine. If I wanted a cable subscription, I would have one regardless of whether NYCFC was on one of the channels. If "pretty easily" means paying $50+/mo just to watch three or four NYCFC games, sometimes tape delayed, there's a distribution issue.

I agree. It's ridiculous to think someone would pay 50+ a month just for a few NYCFC games. I pay for fubo and ESPN because I can see a huge number of games between the two. (not all, but a lot.) I wouldn't pay that if I could only watch, say, 1 or 2.

 

[sbrylski]

Didn't MLS instruct all teams to let their local deals expire by 2022, or after 2022 or something? Are we expecting to not be on YES soon anyway?

 

[Marito]

I'm a customer of MLS, and they're not entitled to my eyeballs. It's their problem if I can't watch games, not mine. If I wanted a cable subscription, I would have one regardless of whether NYCFC was on one of the channels. If "pretty easily" means paying $50+/mo just to watch three or four NYCFC games, sometimes tape delayed, there's a distribution issue.

Also, let's say you're a soccer fan in general, cable companies make this 2 different planks: regular and "Latino" packages, and the latino packages have way more fútbol, but YES is not included until you reach the highest Latino plan available, which is like $70 in Spectrum. ESPN+ and VPN is the only route.

 

[FredMertz]

It tells me the opposite. This isn't 1 streaming service that can't come to terms with them. It's all the streaming services.

And it only started happening once ownership of YES changed.

YES is available on the ATT TV streaming service.

 

[moogoo]

YES is available on the ATT TV streaming service.

I do not believe this is correct. YES is not listed in their channel lineup under any package.

although they do provide MSG, MSG+, SNY, and Spectrum Sports Net, which they say has NYCFC...?

EDIT: looks like spectrum sports network = yes network. must have the $85/month plan at minimum though.

 

[FredMertz]

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[moogoo]

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Yea, noticed that once I dug a little deeper. Still need the $85/month plan though. All in all not bad if they have the channels you want to watch.