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The problem is you have to have fast enough internet to avoid stoppages and issues. I don't believe I have that. Plus I have little desire to watch a three hour baseball game on a computer screen. But thanks for the trip, maybe sometime in the future. Lip |
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Another plus for MLB.tv over Extra Innings is travel: you can take it with you, whether that's on a phone, tablet, or computer.
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If not, there are a couple of streaming devices you can look into, most specifically the Roku and Chromecast. Roku has a few different products but it is basically a device you hook up to your TV and can stream internet programming directly to your TV. It's nice because it is very user-friendly; it has it's own built-in user interface so you basically download "channel apps" to your device and then can pick programming with a remote control. Chromecast is made by Google, it's a little more open-ended, but you basically hook it up to your TV and then can "cast" whatever is on your browser (you have to use Google Chrome) and that will appear on your television. Not quite as user friendly as the Roku, but it's also a lot less expensive. Additionally, an MLB.tv subscription also allows you to watch on other devices, such as tablets, aside from just your computer.
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I find it hard to believe that WGN-TV is getting out of the sports business. Didn't they just sign the Blackhawks to a long term TV contract?
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They did but WGN and WGN America are different things, WGN will continue to show Chicago sports in the Chicago market, WGN America, their national cable channel is getting out of the Chicago-centric sports and programming business. Remember they stopped the News at 9 on WGN America a few months ago, the writing has been on the wall for this move for a while now.
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Same holds true for the other RSNs. I was just using YES as an example. No, I don't see a la carte happening anytime soon. The people/corporations making billions from these sports TV deals will never let that happen.
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It does affect Cubs and Sox broadcasts though. Maybe the Sox will wise up and not re-up with WGN and WCIU. I'd rather see all 162 on CSN (excluding national broadcasts). They get more money per game from them anyways. |
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In one of the biggest mistakes the White Sox ever did in my lifetime was when they left WGN TV for Channel 32 after the 1967 season. I hope the White Sox keep some of there games on WGN TV in the future. Both New York baseball teams have all of there games on cable TV. I hope the White Sox don't do the same thing. There are people out there who don't have cable TV. You're reaching more people by having some of your games on free TV.
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I had another problem with my mobile device. My kids had bought me an IPOD Touch a few years ago. I downloaded the AT BAT app to it and was able to use the wireless in the house to listen to the Sox with MLB Audio while I went about my business. The last two years I haven't been able to do that. My IPOD Touch has been upgraded software wise as far as it can go but when I try and add apps to it including AT BAT I'm told I need an upgraded version of software in order to do this. Since that's not available for my device I'm out of luck. Technology is great but it leaves a lot of us behind unless we have the resources to keep upgrading or replacing what we have. We bought a smart TV last year and use it to watch Netflix. It also has a link to MLB.TV which I may have to use. The kicker with MLB.TV is that if you want to listen to the Sox announcers rather than the opposition you have to buy the premium package which is $20-25 more than the basic one per year. The basic package only gives you one feed and it's their discretion whether it's the Sox or the opponent. |
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There is only going to be some flack in places like Rockford, Iowa, Central IL, and maybe parts of Indiana where it is still considered the viewing area for Chicago sports. Other than that, the viewers in the rest of the country are not even going to notice or care. Or, to phrase it better, there won't be enough people to make a difference. The Sox don't have a national following (and have an embarrassment of an announcer to boot, the Cubs don't have the power they used to, and regular season in the NBA is quite boring to most fans. If there is programming that is going to be bring more revenue, that's the reality of life.
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The baseball moves made by White Sox management (including playing some home games in Milwaukee in 1968 and 1969) had much more to do with the Cubs becoming the more popular team in Chicago than WGN as the Cubs were becoming the fashionable team to watch across the country, stacked with hitting and pitching and primed to return to the World Series after almost a quarter century of frustration. Baseball Digest picked the Cubs to go to the World Series before the 1969 season (while picking the Mets to finish last). WGN always had more stake in the Cubs than the White Sox. The White Sox were the second team on WGN in 1967. WGN didn't cause people not to go games in 1970. I've heard the thing about the kids coming home from school and turning on the end of the Cubs games and growing up to be fans, but that would have happened if WGN had continued to broadcast only Cubs and White Sox home games, with the Sox television schedule limited because they played a lot of night games during the week. I can't imagine any realistic scenario where it would have been the Sox instead of the Cubs being the Superstaion darling team in the early days of heavy cable saturation, when A&E was still showing artsy ballets and classical concerts. I imagine White Sox baseball on WGN might have been very close to the abbreviated schedule ran in the early Reinsdorf years when both WGN and the White Sox opted out of the third year of their three-year contract. The television moves by the White Sox over the years (some simply being ideas ahead of their time) haven't worked out as well as management had projected. But providing more games on free TV, as the White Sox did in 1968, wasn't a bad idea. And the alternative wasn't as rosy for the White Sox as many consider them to be. |
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That only really works if you can synch them up.
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