Huh, mega mergers end up being bad for consumers? I was told differently......snark.
YouTube TV Getting Ability to Split Into 4 Screens
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So for those who are not YTTV subscribers, what do you use? If they don't get this done this weekend, I am going to switch. We mostly use it for live sports. Don't really watch other "live" tv stuff or new on air shows. My wife watches a lot of Office reruns, but we can get that on Peacock (which we have cheaply because she got an educator promo). Mostly, we need something that gives us the most access to live sports. What do you all use? I know there is Hulu, Fubo, Sling, etc. Just trying to get some opinions.
Why wouldn't you be able to access ESPN+?
Disney has a vested interest in this lasting a long time because they own Hulu Live + and will want as many YouTubers to switch to Hulu. Unfortunately we don't have access to the negotiations to see who is the enemy here.
The house of mouse is the enemy. And I'm not defending google, they are also terrible. But this play is to take subscribers away from youtubetv.
Nobody in our house watches normal TV anymore. I can pretty safely say the only shows that have been watched on our YouTube TV in the last couple years are sports and Maine Cabin Masters. If this ruins the last of the F1 races this season I'm going to be legitimately pissed. I really don't want to end up paying for F1TV too. We have enough subscriptions.
Pretty sure my tv logs into my ESPN app through my YTTV credentials. Since there isn't a separate app for ESPN+, not sure how I would access it if I can't log into the ESPN app. Maybe a way around it, I don't really know.
You should have a separate app for ESPN. We use a firestick, YTTV and ESPN are different apps. I watch regular ESPN channels via YTTV, but not ESPN+. You pay a separate subscription to ESPN+ than you do to YTTV, so not having one should not prevent access to the other.
There are two sign ins in the espn app, TV provider and Account. The account one gives access to ESPN+.
maybe it's just the ease of being able to flip from TNT, to ESPN, to CBS for games on one platform.
I'm not going to get completely out of an app and into another.
Well, go ahead and enjoy paying $30/mo for espn. You will probably do it. I’ll pass.
Because their streams suck. For one of the Iowa State basketball non-con games last year, the stream went out in the last 5 minutes of the game. I asked them for a credit and they basically called me a liar. I was like "check twitter, everyone is complaining". They didn't budge. I cancelled and will never go back.
I like watching college basketball, especially ISU basketball. The TV broadcast schedule I saw indicates several ISU game will be on ESPN+. Therefore, I will sign up for the app next week. I will drop it immediately after the last ISU game shown on +.
I mean, I hate ESPN, but I do think that was probably a coincidence
Because I hate ESPN, I’m actually on Google/Youtube tv’s side here and will be sticking with them through the dispute. I think if a lot of people did, ESPN/disney would fold a lot quicker.
Another thing that annoyed me was I wanted to give ESPN that feedback just to do my part but you can’t actually submit feedback on espn’s website (at least not that I could find). There a lot of places that they say will let you provide feedback, but they’re just faqs or don’t work. So I actually called them. The guy I talked to was super nice, but I shouldn’t have had to call in the first place
Another thing that annoyed me was I wanted to give ESPN that feedback just to do my part but you can’t actually submit feedback on espn’s website (at least not that I could find). There a lot of places that they say will let you provide feedback, but they’re just faqs or don’t work. So I actually called them. The guy I talked to was super nice, but I shouldn’t have had to call in the first place
