Fans *PISSED* as Comcast SHUTS DOWN Bally during Playoffs

Fans PISSED as Comcast SHUTS DOWN Bally during Playoffs

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Depressed Ginger

Күн бұрын

Discussing comcast and Bally Sports mess

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@thomasritter1503 5 ай бұрын

This affects MLB more than NHL/NBA because both the NHL/NBA being in their playoffs, their games are covered NATIONALLY. So lack of local RSN coverage is minimal.

@majoreverett5050 5 ай бұрын

the magic weren't on national television

@retrowarehouse2554 5 ай бұрын

@@majoreverett5050 They were NBA TV, but some fans don't have NBA TV though like they have ESPN or TNT.

@supervilla06 4 ай бұрын

It’s also about wanting to hear your local sports broadcasters too though. It is painful to have to listen to some of those idiot national broadcasters. Especially if you already don’t like them.

@retrowarehouse2554 5 ай бұрын

It really is time for all of the leagues to completely discontinue their ties to Bally's. I'm not even sure why Bally's and RSNs in general are still a thing anymore. I'm glad in Utah and Arizona their teams are all on broadcast networks exclusively now, it's time for the rest of the markets in the country to follow suit.

@Anthoag96911 5 ай бұрын

I'm a tigers fan and I can't even watch their games now. I'm my opinion, it's a shame that the mlb let diamond sports purchase regional rights. Fox Sports Detroit, and the other Fox Sports regional networks were so much better

@mikecumbo7531 5 ай бұрын

What is different? Bally uses the same producers and directors that were there under Fox’s ownership. For about 18 months ESPN owned the regionals but they were required to sell them.

@chrishitch3202 5 ай бұрын

Go Fubo

@retrowarehouse2554 5 ай бұрын

This should've been nipped in the bud by the league to not have their networks on Bally's this season.

@mikecumbo7531 4 ай бұрын

@@retrowarehouse2554 you do realize that this type of “dispute” could happen to your ABC or NBC channels too. I hate to tell you very few local tv channels have the necessary facilities to carry a game.

@OmahaballYT 5 ай бұрын

Am I the only one that thinks the first screen looks like some kind of anti-piracy screen 💀

@michaelbudlong1738 5 ай бұрын

I miss the good old days when the dodgers would be on ktla 5

@LawrenceW78 5 ай бұрын

I love how providers like Comcast and Frontier (which is who my provider is) tries to babyface themselves to their customers by saying "We're doing this for you guys, they want you to pay more and we're taking a stand for you" Meanwhile they all continue to drop channel after channel after channel from their line ups. I mean its ridiculous that the Texas Rangers win the World Series and no one here in Texas can watch them unless they get a national TV game

@arnoldcox9128 5 ай бұрын

Cincinnati would be the Queen City Sports Network

@jamiecosgrove1950 5 ай бұрын

not that big a deal. i am streaming dodger games for free, so i dont care.

@lalakerspro 5 ай бұрын

yea, theres ways that you can watch any game for free, or hella cheap. Is it legal? probably not but im not gonna feel bad about it

@usernamegenerico 5 ай бұрын

Without watching the video (because I research this kind of thing almost daily), this was bound to happen. FS1 costs subscribers $3 a month on their cable bill. Bally Sports? That costs $8-10 a month (Detroit-area Comcast customers will be receiving a credit to their accounts in that amount). Bally Sports was charging way too much in an era where less people are watching cable than ever.

@nathanjw940 5 ай бұрын

Problem is it's 20 a month for Bally sports+ in order to get it separately

@11679MRT 5 ай бұрын

Teams like the Twins resigned with Bally because the money from streaming doesn't even come close. Bally paid the Twins $55 Million in 2023. They're getting less this year - they (Twins) also dropped payroll by $30 Million this year. I can only imagine streaming will be an even bigger blow

@Jgrumps 4 ай бұрын

As the great Donald Trump once said: CONcast

@davesherwood211 4 ай бұрын

I cant watch my Royals in Kansas City been a fan since the 70s😢

@JamesPapadakis-s2u 5 ай бұрын

Bring back Fox sports

@Jamellii 5 ай бұрын

Honestly never liked Bally Sports at all

@ScottHammonds-k1u 5 ай бұрын

I got rid of cable years ago!!! It's the biggest ripoff ever!!!

@TPTGopher 5 ай бұрын

As a Day 1 Nationals fan who still roots for the Orioles unless they're playing the Nats or their opponent losing would benefit the Crybravies, all I can say about this is God bless MASN.

@reh303 5 ай бұрын

I'm a Knicks fan with Comcast, and not having MSG Network the last two years has sucked.

@retrowarehouse2554 5 ай бұрын

It sucks that games aren't on broadcast like they used to be.

@wrathofkaneeighty8 5 ай бұрын

☠️☠️☠️🙈

@majoreverett5050 5 ай бұрын

thank god my beautiful Magic were up by 40 so it didnt matter a whole ton when it cut off

@gregofthelake 5 ай бұрын

I'm a Dish customer in DFW and they dropped Ballys a few years ago. Even with NHL Center Ice, I can't watch the Dallas Stars or even the broadcast from the other team unless it's a national broadcast. Now that I'm watching the NHL playoffs and the Stars are the team I know the least about but I'm not going to pay extra just for one team when they are not my favorite team, just the local one.

@damascus6478 4 ай бұрын

Comcast never did care about sports. I live in Central New Jersey and Comcast dropped MSG, so no Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, or Devils.

@tomk.3428 5 ай бұрын

The TV revenue gravy train is shutting down. Will this reduce league size as teams go belly-up? Nah, they will attempt to expand. Bye!

@heathclark318 4 ай бұрын

The fact that regional sports channels have been bought and then absorbed into the machine is disgusting and degrades both coverage and steals local jobs. FFS its happening with everything.

@Magical363 4 ай бұрын

The twins have made their own channel it hasn’t been used yet it’s still on Bally sports north (on cable) also I like Bally Sports scoreboard for baseball but for anything else it’s not the best

@rena5385 4 ай бұрын

Same thing happened with Direct Tv Stream... all the Bally channels are gone

@wandameadows5736 5 ай бұрын

Player contracts are part of the problem here. To much greed in Professional Sports.

@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija 5 ай бұрын

Would you rather have the owner pocket all the money?

@talcat8031 4 ай бұрын

Ballys current hockey graphics are near perfect in my eyes

@Miceinyoface 5 ай бұрын

Love you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ dg

@Db_traveler 5 ай бұрын

These channels overpaid for sports so they can attract the online gamblers with instant odds, etc. The “gamble” has not paid off and now the poor owners who were promised big $$$ for tv rights are scrambling. The cash cow is drying up.

@kjorlaug1 4 ай бұрын

I mean, dudnt Ballys not pay the bill?

@bbb4228 4 ай бұрын

Bally Sports SUCKS regardless

@matthew01234 5 ай бұрын

I miss Ted Turner and whoever owned the Chicago Cubs during that time period. Instead of trying to milk every single penny out of their fans they were much more concerned with gaining as many fans as possible across the entire country. RSN's? Forget about it. They didn't just want their region to watch the games. They wanted *everyone* to be able to watch their games and be able to do it for free. For decades every baseball fan in America could turn their tv to TBS Superstation or WGN and watch every single Braves game and Cubs game for free. Now those teams have two of the largest nationwide fanbases in the US because so many people could watch the teams and fall in love with them. Bally has done a terrible job since buying the RSN's from Fox but I will say this: If I have to pick a side in this it would be Bally. It sounds like Comcast/Xfinity wants to charge *all of us* sports fans even more $ every month by cutting the sports out of our current "bundle" and then force us to pay more money and pay for a bunch of other channels they know damn well we don't want. If Bally has a problem with that I can understand because so do I. They already bundle way too much together anyway. I already have to pay for hundreds of channels and there are less than 10 of them I watch. 90% of channels are pure garbage. Now Comcast want us to pay more money for them to add more garbage to the pile? Pardon my French but f*ck that. If Bally Sports is against that happening I agree with Bally. If Comcast does that or doesn't carry my teams I will cut the cord and go to another service.

@lalakerspro 5 ай бұрын

I wish I was born 10 years earlier, I could have watched a lot of cubs/bulls/braves games over the air in the Bay area. I only remeber watching a bulls game over the air. I would recommend getting IPTV. Its not completely legal, but its like 15 dollars a month and you can get any channel that exists pretty much lol. Nothing compared to cable

@timbo303official9 5 ай бұрын

At least the cubs have a direct to consumer option. They used to have issues with Comcast when marquee sports network launched. You can get some of MLB, all of the NHL/NBA teams with Bally sports+ if you don't have Bally sports btw on your cable provider.

@hughgeorgie2097 3 ай бұрын

T'was the last straw. Cable canceled.

@pauldavis1943 5 ай бұрын

Concast didint think my $280 per month was enough to watch the Mariners. Inconceivable!

@somebodyandthem 5 ай бұрын

Mariners aren’t Bally

@imrpovking845 5 ай бұрын

@@somebodyandthem Mainers have their own problems but similar to the Bally one.

@TheOldTapeArchive 5 ай бұрын

The "solution" is a la carte cable channels.

@JM-rf3lv 5 ай бұрын

Television and regional networks made local sports teams accessible without having to go to the game or listen in radio. Brought in lots of revenue for everyone. But as a customer I’m not paying for MLB or Center Ice who still won’t allow you to watch h your team. Won’t take long and when the team is on your TV then out of sight out of mind and people don’t go to the games either.

@zacmartin7729 4 ай бұрын

KZbin tv gang

@Chuck787 5 ай бұрын

It’s going to change Bally and diamond are ending the naming rights agreement at the end of the MLB season

@chrishitch3202 5 ай бұрын

Go Fubo

@lalakerspro 5 ай бұрын

IPTV way better, its cheaper and you get everything

@airmax5614 5 ай бұрын

I'm not paying $80 a month get slingtv instead you pay literally half of paying Fubo

@marclucas9701 5 ай бұрын

@@lalakerspro What's IPTV?

@stephenholloway6893 5 ай бұрын

Internet protocol television

@marclucas9701 5 ай бұрын

@@stephenholloway6893 Is that a real thing?

@NewNomics 4 ай бұрын

The days of the RSNs seem numbered. Contracts with the leagues are getting more expensive and the RSN's can't really add more commercial breaks. The product will start to look like NASCAR, more commercials less action. Heck it's part of the reason Hockey RSNs have added board and on ice graphics the last year or so. Frankly I think the leagues would be better to cut out the middle man and go streaming based and for cable offer add-on packs. It would just be great to have all games available without blackouts and the looming threat of the channels going away. Yeah the league would have to sell the advertising which would be a lift but they would also get the reality check on what their product is worth. They also could offer a premium ad free tier similar to what WWE does with Peacock PLE events. Indycar has been awesome since moving to a NBC/Peacock hybrid simulcast. You can watch from anywhere, watch the events after you miss them, and if you do get Peacock you get access to practice and qualifying. It's really great to have a constant platform, flexibility to watch when and wherever and if you subscribe you get more entertainment value.

@Suarez05 5 ай бұрын

Bally Sports is Basically becoming Sky Sports in the UK at this Point, Not Even Premier League Fans can their watch their teams Free to Air.

@inter_1097 5 ай бұрын

At least Saturday 3PM blackouts aren't a thing here

@Rich-ey7jv 5 ай бұрын

Bally does an excellent job of covering the Tampa Bay Lightning.

@BlackwoodCompany 5 ай бұрын

This is only getting worse. Because most of them are going down from the bankruptcy. Plus, I cannot even find a chance to get any of the channels. Streaming is nearly impossible with the internet issues and even costs.

@nathanjw940 5 ай бұрын

The problem is you need Internet for the streaming service and it gets expensive paying for everything separately

@NKW499 5 ай бұрын

DG, when can you a do a video on all of the Vegas Casinos (old and new)?

@inter_1097 5 ай бұрын

Do I understand right that the Golden Knights games were shown on an over the air channel in Vegas this year? Could MLB teams follow suit?

@mikecumbo7531 5 ай бұрын

Vegas, Utah Jazz, and Coyotes all had over the air deals. I think the same group owned the stations in all three markets. The D’backs and Padres have their own tv deals. One problem with some teams doing that, finding a tv station that wants to air games.