Spectrum/Disney/ESPN - Suck for doing this

[Short-Dawg-69]

Well just before college football kick off week.
We go to watch the Florida game tomorrow.
Spectrum has a message Disney has removed their programming right from spectrum due to negotiations.

All three of you SH!TT? business suck…..

 

[ManitouDan]

Woke Mo Fo's , I hope I live to see ESPN busted up .

 

[hmt5000]

Woke Mo Fo's , I hope I live to see ESPN busted up .

Espn might be on Amazon in a year or 2.

 

[Catapult]

Any suggestions on streaming services? Which are best for watching UK games?

 

[hmt5000]

Youtube has the UF game on tonight in a live stream.

 

[ukalum1988]

I dropped Spectrum 2.5 years ago and I’m glad I did.

 

[Short-Dawg-69]

Any suggestions on streaming services? Which are best for watching UK games?

We just signed up for YouTube TV.
1st month is free right now

 

[BlueWorldOrder]

 

[Simple_Man]

Any suggestions on streaming services? Which are best for watching UK games?

Download the Dofu app.

 

[know1]

Same thing happened last year the first weekend with Sling.

 

[Short-Dawg-69]

I just called spectrum and had them agree not to charge me for the service for these channels until they can provide them.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Well just before college football kick off week.
We go to watch the Florida game tomorrow.
Spectrum has a message Disney has removed their programming right from spectrum due to negotiations.

All three of you SH!TT? business suck…..

I don't know how I can agree with this any more than I do.

 

[fredmanthecatfan]

I’ve been on hold with spectrum for about an hour

 

[RonRajon]

ESPN+ works for all US Open matches luckily. Just did Hulu Live. Would like them to come to an agreement before September 9th.

 

[Catapult]

Download the Dofu app.

Had not heard of this but seems you still need to subscribe to a steaming service to use??

 

[Short-Dawg-69]

I’ve been on hold with spectrum for about an hour

I was on hold for a while also.
The dude that answered was fine on removing the charges from my bill until an agreement is made between spectrum and Disney.

I think we may just move to streaming.

 

[Clear153]

I can watch it on ESPN app in Spanish. English version is blocked.

 

[312CAT]

No complaints at all with YouTube TV. The app's interface is seamless, recording/rewinding/pausing is super easy. They just brought in the multi-cast feature so can watch multiple games at once which is awesome on CFB Saturdays/NFL Sundays/March Madness. Can travel and still have access to YTTV which is great when I fly every for work. Definitely recommend

 

[Freetaxreturn]

Well it’s working just fine on Dish Network 🍺

 

[Simple_Man]

Had not heard of this but seems you still need to subscribe to a steaming service to use??

I currently have spectrum,you can watch a number of different sports on Dofu.I am watching Florida now.

 

[jameslee32]

17-3 Utes over Gators @half.

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

I just called spectrum and had them agree not to charge me for the service for these channels until they can provide them.

You shouldn't have to call and haggle with them to do the right thing. We are paying for a service that they aren't fully providing.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

For all the people on spectrum who are having problems. Their is a site called stream east and it lives streams almost every sport,

 

[hmt5000]

Espn might be on Amazon in a year or 2.

Herbstreit has already signed a contract with Amazon by some reports. I fear we are going to get in a situation that we need to have ESPN+, Hulu and Amazon in order to watch all our games. The deal leaked between ESPN and Amazon was talking about ESPN on Amazon being $30+ per month. Call it $45/month to watch SEC football all season in the near future.

 

[Catapult]

Spectrum might as well go ahead and capitulate. Disney has the upper hand here. Some number of Spectrum customers will try streaming services and if happy may drop cable altogether.

 

[StubbornPenny]

I’ve been on hold with spectrum for about an hour

Why even call? They’re not gonna resolve a multi million dollar contract dispute by you calling and complaining?

 

[WildcatofNati2]

Why even call? They’re not gonna resolve a multi million dollar contract dispute by you calling and complaining?

Of course not. I called them tonight...to cancel.

 

[StubbornPenny]

Of course not. I called them tonight...to cancel.

Yeah boyeeeee!

 

[BGCATFAN2012]

I’ve been on hold with spectrum for about an hour

Still holding

 

[TucsonCat]

Good news is it happened tonight.
Have time to plan for Saturday.
Imagine being a Utah fan and this happens at kickoff.
I THINK espn is to blame for the time it was taken away.
But I THINK Spectrum knew it was coming and did not make customers aware.

 

[jlkirk]

So, what do we do for tonight and Saturday? I did a search on my smart TV and didnt find Dofu

 

[yoshukai]

I was on hold for a while also.
The dude that answered was fine on removing the charges from my bill until an agreement is made between spectrum and Disney.

I think we may just move to streaming.

Well if you have Spectrum internet, you will still be blocked . I tried using my son’s Direct TV streaming and the games were blocked .

 

[yoshukai]

Good news is it happened tonight.
Have time to plan for Saturday.
Imagine being a Utah fan and this happens at kickoff.
I THINK espn is to blame for the time it was taken away.
But I THINK Spectrum knew it was coming and did not make customers aware.

LOTS of Florida fans were pissed too . But this morning they said they were glad they missed it . From what I have been able to gather, this was a power play by Disney to extort an astronomical fee from Spectrum. Disney has been bleeding money badly and are are desperate. I saw other people say they’ve done the same thing to YouTube TV in the past.

 

[StubbornPenny]

So, what do we do for tonight and Saturday? I did a search on my smart TV and didnt find Dofu

Most “smart” TVs are actually quite dumb and limited, and will not run third party apps.

I would recommend investing in an Amazon Firestick, and either clicking the options to run third party apps yourself, or have a techie help you.

 

[UKnCincy]

Spectrum might as well go ahead and capitulate. Disney has the upper hand here. Some number of Spectrum customers will try streaming services and if happy may drop cable altogether.

I wouldn’t necessarily say Disney has the upper hand here. If the fee increase that Disney is demanding is large enough, then it may actually make financial sense for Spectrum to just walk away from Disney.

Disney also stands to lose quite a bit too if they can’t get this resolved. Only about 25% of cable subscribers watch Disney’s channels like ESPN. So at most, Spectrum would lose 25% of their subscribers who switch to something like YouTube TV.

Which also means that 75% of Spectrum’s customers remain with Spectrum, and ESPN would end up losing about 11 million subscribers. If Disney is collecting about $12 per subscriber per month for all of their channels, that ends up being about a $1.6 billion revenue hit to Disney.

It’s important to keep in mind that about 60% of ESPN’s revenue comes from pay TV subscribers who never watch a minute of sports. ESPN needs to keep high subscriber numbers to support their model, otherwise, they’re going to have to start charging sports fans monthly fees that could be more than $40 per month.

 

[Short-Dawg-69]

Spectrum might as well go ahead and capitulate. Disney has the upper hand here. Some number of Spectrum customers will try streaming services and if happy may drop cable altogether.

Yes we are one we got YouTube TV last night.
Pulling Spectrum Boxes today to turn in.

 

[cmallory4121]

I’ve been on hold with spectrum for about an hour

is that all?

 

[JC CATS]

Woke Mo Fo's , I hope I live to see ESPN busted up .

What does woke mean, and what is bad about it?

 

[secrules3]

Most “smart” TVs are actually quite dumb and limited, and will not run third party apps.

I would recommend investing in an Amazon Firestick, and either clicking the options to run third party apps yourself, or have a techie help you.

Dofu is on the Firestick?

 

[cmallory]

Any suggestions on streaming services? Which are best for watching UK games?

YouTube has ESPN and ESPN 2 and sec network. Plus it’s only 1/3 of the cost and you can watch it anywhere