News Article: There are no local streaming options for the 2021 Hurricanes season

[Svechhammer]

$20/mo is the correct price for a sports streaming service that isn't absolute clown shoes.

This is not that.

$20 per month for only the Hornets and Canes is a non-starter for me. Could be the best streaming service available, but I ain't paying $20 for that.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

$20 per month for only the Hornets and Canes is a non-starter for me. Could be the best streaming service available, but I ain't paying $20 for that.

Fair, but as the market settles, I have a feeling that's gonna be the price. Local live sports is the single most valuable property on cable TV.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

I would pay $20/mo to add local team access to NHL.tv (RIP) or even ESPN+. But Bally is an unmitigated disaster. Every time I tried to open the app on my TV last season, it would literally stop responding to the buttons on the remote. I was never able to even hover over the game I wanted to watch, let alone open it. The app would freeze up every time I tried. I wasn’t the only one having issues - I think the App Store rating was something like 1.5 the last time I looked.

This was on a completely unadulterated Apple TV player which has no issues with any other app I’ve tried. It’s not me, it’s them. And if they have that much trouble getting a stable release of the app on my TV, I have no faith in their ability to offer a competitive product. It makes less than zero sense to pay a $20 monthly fee for the privilege of being frustrated by their developers.

Still sticking with Spectrum until a less bad option comes along.

 

[NotOpie]

I would pay $20/mo to add local team access to NHL.tv (RIP) or even ESPN+. But Bally is an unmitigated disaster. Every time I tried to open the app on my TV last season, it would literally stop responding to the buttons on the remote. I was never able to even hover over the game I wanted to watch, let alone open it. The app would freeze up every time I tried. I wasn’t the only one having issues - I think the App Store rating was something like 1.5 the last time I looked.

This was on a completely unadulterated Apple TV player which has no issues with any other app I’ve tried. It’s not me, it’s them. And if they have that much time getting a stable release of the app on my TV, it makes less than zero sense to pay a $20 monthly fee for the privilege of being frustrated by their developers.

Still sticking with Spectrum until a less bad option comes along.

Yup, I went back and forth about going "untethered" but couldn't find a reasonable answer to my Canes addiction. So I just stayed with cable.

 

[MinJaBen]

Yup, I went back and forth about going "untethered" but couldn't find a reasonable answer to my Canes addiction. So I just stayed with cable.

Same. Cable is overpriced. But, guess what, so is everything else.

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

If this were my younger and poorer days I imagine I'd have to go the 'alternate' route. Now I console myself by figuring cost per game price and then it doesn't seem as bad.

What really bites is the rig-a-marole of not being able to watch all the games with one service. That and Bally pricing themselves out of streaming services so that you end up with either the crappy Bally app or going with Spectrum sucks balls.

 

[tarheelhockey]

$20/mo is the correct price for a sports streaming service that isn't absolute clown shoes.

This is not that.

Bally’s itself, or the actual streaming service?

I haven’t subscribed yet, but $20/mo is more than reasonable if it means avoiding an entire cable subscription. Is there something really wrong with the app or something?

Edit: just saw @Finnish Jerk Train ’s reply

 

[skipnjump]

When Google Fiber stopped providing TV, I went to stream DirectTV and get Bally on that. I didn't want to go back to Spectrum (TimeWarner) as I had a lot of trouble with them. So far, things have been good on DirectTV

 

[SlavinAway]

When Google Fiber stopped providing TV, I went to stream DirectTV and get Bally on that. I didn't want to go back to Spectrum (TimeWarner) as I had a lot of trouble with them. So far, things have been good on DirectTV

This is what I've been using as well. I split a subscription with a friend which has worked for a couple of years now.

 

[Stickpucker]

So NHL is still on ESPN + right?

 

[DaveG]

So NHL is still on ESPN + right?

Yep, just no in-market games aside from the insta-losses national broadcast exclusives

 

[Navin R Slavin]

So does Bally's have every game, or just every game that ESPN doesn't have?

 

[raynman]

Yep, just no in-market games aside from the insta-losses national broadcast exclusives

For the first 2 weeks last season they let us watch all the games and then randomly cut it off like they forgot to close the gate to the playground

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Bally - 71
ESPN+/Hulu - 6
TNT - 3
ESPN - 2

You'll also need ESPN and TNT for the 2nd round of the playoffs and beyond .

Bally + Hulu BF Offer (.99/1.99 per month for a year) + a few months worth of whatever streaming service carries ESPN Networks and Turner Networks is probably the cheapest legal path to accessing all of the games.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Bally - 71
ESPN+/Hulu - 6
TNT - 3
ESPN - 2

You'll also need ESPN and TNT for the 2nd round of the playoffs and beyond .

Bally + Hulu BF Offer (.99/1.99 per month for a year) + a few months worth of whatever streaming service carries ESPN Networks and Turner Networks is probably the cheapest legal path to accessing all of the games.

nah, i'll just keep stealing it and/or listening on the radio until the nhl gets their shit together

 

[SoupNazi]

$20 per month for only the Hornets and Canes is a non-starter for me. Could be the best streaming service available, but I ain't paying $20 for that.

Yeah...not paying $20 per month to watch the Canes and only the Canes. Now if it came with all the sports "local" to me, maybe. But those packages are nonsense.

 

[CanesFanBudMan]

It’s less than 2 dollars a game which is completely reasonable as long as the service works.

 

[NotOpie]

It’s less than 2 dollars a game which is completely reasonable as long as the service works.

Therein lies the rub. Bally has had a solid run of bad service.