Welcome home, fellow Gator.

The Gator Nation's oldest and most active insider community
Join today!

Sling TV ESPN contract - 10/3 ESPN is back

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by iam4uf, Oct 1, 2022.

  1. INGATORSWETRUST

    INGATORSWETRUST GC Hall of Fame

    Apr 8, 2007
    Florida
    I don’t care about 98 percent of the channels the cable company bundles and attempts to charge me for. When we want to watch a movie, we watch it on the AMC or Red Box App on our Smart TV for $4.99 ($5.99 for HD version) like we recently did for Top Gun Maverick. De bundling is the way to go. Put some of these smaller channels forced on us out of business
     
    • Agree Agree x 2
  2. hoyt233

    hoyt233 GC Hall of Fame

    6,433
    2,369
    2,198
    Aug 31, 2009
    Prattvile, AL-Go Lions!
    I understand what you are saying, but these streaming services keep raising their fees-look at what they cost when they they first started, pretty soon you will be paying as much as cable.
     
  3. iam4uf

    iam4uf GC Hall of Fame

    13,414
    9,240
    2,463
    Apr 12, 2007
    Gainesville
    I had problems with Sling buffering when their service first started, but none since. Fubo & Hulu both had problems when I tried them the last couple of years when they were running discounts.
    I'm happy with Sling & their relatively lower cost, so I'll go back to them. But rising costs are messing up my $100 phone/Internet/TV budget.
     
  4. spike718

    spike718 GC Hall of Fame

    2,531
    716
    2,018
    Apr 11, 2007
    This happens with every provider at one time or another. The timing of slings announcement sucks, but YouTube tv is not immune to this as less than a year ago they had the same problem with espn/Disney…

    YouTubeTV reinstates ABC, ESPN, ends dispute with Disney

    directv, comcast, etc. have ALL had service interrupted with various networks during contract disputes. It is not unique to streaming services and not unique to Sling. They all suck.
     
    • Agree Agree x 1
    • Informative Informative x 1
  5. wingator22

    wingator22 Freshman

    10
    2
    1,818
    Feb 2, 2011
    Daytona Beach
    Fou d out yesterday while looking fir sec games and espn, and charged for month that morning before finding sling, Disney billion dollar demand to sling. Radio today
     
  6. WRUF online for me.
     
  7. iam4uf

    iam4uf GC Hall of Fame

    13,414
    9,240
    2,463
    Apr 12, 2007
    Gainesville
    It's back. Disney must've gotten the subscriber switch to Hulu that they wanted.

    upload_2022-10-3_16-15-14.png
     
    • Informative Informative x 2
  8. tommyuf21

    tommyuf21 GC Hall of Fame

    7,485
    205
    258
    Apr 8, 2007
    I think the rash of cancellations most likely forced Dish to cave.