How Many of You Are Watching Games Online?

[MDW79]

Looking to see who out there is a fellow cord-cutter and is often left scrambling for ways to watch games online. And if you are, what site are you using?

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Whole other discusion...I think college sports in general are really missing the boat by not making single games available by pay-per view and/or offering standalone subscription services. It seems there's a missed opportunity there, and substantial amount of dollars lost.

I had cable pretty much my entire life. From 5 to my mid 30's. From the mid 80's to the mid 2010's. I'm a huge sports fan, like most people, am someone watches a fair amount of TV.

I don't have cable anymore, and have zero interest in ever getting it again. Half of the people I know don't have cable any more, and that number is growing by the year. I know I'm not saying anything new here. Cable companies are losing subscribers. Younger people consume media differently.


So, in 2017, why not offer a way for everyone to watch your product? To see your advertisers product. I would gladly pay 5 bucks here or there to watch a single game. I'd pay 99 bucks or so for a season pass. I'd pay 9.99 a month for a subscription. And I suspect there's tons of others who would as well.

As it stands, I pay nothing. I want to see the product, give some money, and watch some commercials. And I would like to do that from phone, tablet, by remote location, and without having to buy TBS, Comedy Central, History, QVC and Kardashian network be the cable company requires me to purchase to do so.

If you take 10 Bearcat fans under 60, I'd bet only 5 of them have cable. And of those 5 I'd bet only 2 or 3 have that CBS Sports Network channel. How many fanbases have similar situations?

Get with the times, guys!

 

[Red_N_Black_Attack]

Looking to see who out there is a fellow cord-cutter and is often left scrambling for ways to watch games online. And if you are, what site are you using?

I think sports in general are really missing the boat by not making single games available by pay-per view and/or offering standalone subscription services. It seems there's a missed opportunity there, and substantial amount of dollars lost.

I had cable pretty much my entire life. From 5 to my mid 30's. From the mid 80's to the mid 2010's. I'm a huge sports fan, like most people, am someone watches a fair amount of TV.

I don't have cable anymore, and have zero interest in ever getting it again. Half of the people I know don't have cable any more, and that number is growing by the year. I know I'm not saying anything new here. Cable companies are losing subscribers. Younger people consume media differently.


So, in 2017, why not offer a way for everyone to watch your product? To see your advertisers product. I would gladly pay 5 bucks here or there to watch a single game. I'd pay 99 bucks or so for a season pass. I'd pay 9.99 a month for a subscription. And I suspect there's tons of others who would as well.

As it stands, I pay nothing. I want to see the product, give some money, and watch some commercials. And I would like to do that from phone, tablet, by remote location, and without having to buy TBS, Comedy Central, History, QVC and Kardashian network be the cable company requires me to purchase to do so.

A buddy of mine in Orlando isn't on the forum. He coaches his son's soccer team and is always watching on his phone (I believe he sees some basketball and football on an ESPN app) or he goes to a bar. If the bar option, he calls it part of his dining portion of the monthly budget and allows that to be a little bigger by not having cable/satellite. I'm curious of the responses. I pretty much only keep my DirectTV for two reasons, watch live sports and too cheap to buy a digital recorder so I can record a few shows and FF through the commercials.

 

[Bearcat513]

Looking to see who out there is a fellow cord-cutter and is often left scrambling for ways to watch games online. And if you are, what site are you using?

_________________________

Whole other discusion...I think college sports in general are really missing the boat by not making single games available by pay-per view and/or offering standalone subscription services. It seems there's a missed opportunity there, and substantial amount of dollars lost.

I had cable pretty much my entire life. From 5 to my mid 30's. From the mid 80's to the mid 2010's. I'm a huge sports fan, like most people, am someone watches a fair amount of TV.

I don't have cable anymore, and have zero interest in ever getting it again. Half of the people I know don't have cable any more, and that number is growing by the year. I know I'm not saying anything new here. Cable companies are losing subscribers. Younger people consume media differently.


So, in 2017, why not offer a way for everyone to watch your product? To see your advertisers product. I would gladly pay 5 bucks here or there to watch a single game. I'd pay 99 bucks or so for a season pass. I'd pay 9.99 a month for a subscription. And I suspect there's tons of others who would as well.

As it stands, I pay nothing. I want to see the product, give some money, and watch some commercials. And I would like to do that from phone, tablet, by remote location, and without having to buy TBS, Comedy Central, History, QVC and Kardashian network be the cable company requires me to purchase to do so.

If you take 10 Bearcat fans under 60, I'd bet only 5 of them have cable. And of those 5 I'd bet only 2 or 3 have that CBS Sports Network channel. How many fanbases have similar situations?

Get with the times, guys!

As a current college student living on a budget, my roommate and I opted for the basic Cincy Bell package with the Sports plus add on. We rather have the best wireless internet to stream and play video games, etc. If there is some way to just have that sports channels with the high speed internet, I'd do it. I can easily see myself cutting the cable cord in the future and only have Netflix, HBO Go, etc. and then stream sports online. The industry should take notice because I feel like I am not the only one.

 

[coachpipe]

The advantage of having parents who still have cable. If you have parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles who you know have cable. Or if you have netflix or hulu and know someone who doesnt, but has cable ask them for a little username swap.

I currently have directv now only because when they had the deal of preordering for 1 month you get a free amazon firestick and you are locked in at $30 a month compared to its regular price at $70 a month. I got lucky with that deal as it ended Jan. 9th.

But back to the parents/friends/family members who have cable. If you can get their username and password(idk offer to clean their house or something dumb) you can login to the ESPN apps/Fox sports go/and then any other tv app. FXnow/comedy central/history channel...ect for your non sports fixes.

The only problem you will run into is the CBS sports app. CBS is a joke and is the only company who doesnt provide content to anyone other than people who have WOW cable or Frontier or other services you cannot get in this part of the country. So with that said. If i could just find someone who has wow cable or frontier or the other 2 options needed to watch the cbs sports live then life would be grand. Until then, I just get on vipbox.tv and find a stream. The CBS sports streams have kind of been crap this year. They are either too small, even when you maximize the screen you will have a few inches of black around the picture itself. Or the problem I ran into sunday during the USF game was the stream stopped working during halftime.