GDT: Western New York Sabers vs. Raleigh Hurricanes

hangman005

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AhosDatsyukian

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what are the problems with bally? I'm out of market and watch games either on NHL Center Ice through comcast or ESPN+ and I get the Canes Bally broadcast every time and have not had any issues with it. weird that local folks would have issues but it's just fine for me out of market
 

AD Skinner

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That’s how it’s designed to work I’m pretty sure. When I lived out of market I watched every game no issue too. I think the point is to make it such a pain to watch that people will just go to the game instead, but that’s such an antiquated rule and idea that if anything it’s turning people off of consuming sports media altogether or at least paying any money to do so
 

Chrispy

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what are the problems with bally? I'm out of market and watch games either on NHL Center Ice through comcast or ESPN+ and I get the Canes Bally broadcast every time and have not had any issues with it. weird that local folks would have issues but it's just fine for me out of market
The Bally app that can be used in-market has been terrible.

Add in that ESPN+ has apparently cracked down on VPN IPs and there aren't any...solutions we can talk about if you don't have Bally on your local TV package.
 

Svechhammer

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what are the problems with bally? I'm out of market and watch games either on NHL Center Ice through comcast or ESPN+ and I get the Canes Bally broadcast every time and have not had any issues with it. weird that local folks would have issues but it's just fine for me out of market
The Badly streaming service itself is terrible. Their app and website has been absolute garbage for the past few games nationwide with all local markets locked out of streaming. You can't log in, it completely errors out and doesn't even let you in to get to the stream.

But if you have cable, or you're watching on ESPN+ through their streaming capabilities, there are no issues at all, because you're not dealing directly with Badly.
 

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