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Topic: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Topic: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

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Tymaster
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Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Posted: 11/25/2018 9:13:15 AM

Looking at using the Spectrum Choice app...

shabamon
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RE: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Posted: 11/25/2018 9:28:59 AM

I have Spectrum internet but Hulu Live on a Roku stick. I can go to the WatchESPN app or ESPN3 and select Hulu as my cable provider. I also ponied up for ESPN+.

Tymaster
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RE: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Posted: 11/25/2018 9:38:16 AM

That actually does a great job of answering my question. As long as I have a "provider" I can get the ESPN app materials? I don't know if you're familiar with Spectrum Choice (they don't advertise it) but you get all your locals plus 10 cable channels of your pick for $20. My plan was to make ESPN one of those 10 and use their app and pony up for the ESPN+. The only question now is that daggone CBSSPORTSNETWORK. You'd think CBS would offer those games on their all access??

Bobcatmartin
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RE: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Posted: 11/25/2018 9:39:40 AM

I cut the cord two years ago and it's the best thing I've done relative to Ohio Athletics. Granted a lot of it was laziness because I was watching ESPN3 via my laptop and not connecting it to my TV. Now, however, it's every game on the big screen. I also pony up for ESPN+, which helps the cause significantly. I have AT&T UVerse for internet and use an Amazon Fire Stick. So I use ESPN+ for most games, but I also have Playstation Vue (don't need an actual playstation) which gives me many cable networks, including CBS Sports Network. Hope that helps.

UpSan Bobcat
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RE: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Posted: 11/25/2018 3:26:15 PM

I cancelled DirecTV right before the season. Ohio games basically are all I really care to watch and my kids otherwise dominate the TV and seem to prefer to watch YouTube videos of people playing video and computer games.

I've done one-week trials with Sling, Hulu, YouTubeTV and Playstation Vue in order to watch televised games. One of those trials allowed me to watch two games with one trial because the games were six days apart. The rest of the games I've been able to watch with ESPN3 or ESPN+ or I was there. I signed up for Vue on Friday. I might keep it for one month because it's half price for one month and that should cover Ohio's bowl game, plus the basketball game against Xavier and perhaps the Purdue game. If needed, I still can do a trial with DirecTV now. That's basically been my plan to get me through this year at least. Spectrum Choice is another possibility if needed.

One thing I noticed about a few of the streaming options is they allow you to pause your service for as short as a week, so if you are going on vacation or you know there really isn't going to be much on TV you want to watch for a while, you can pause and then resume and not pay for that time. From what I remember about DirecTV, you had to "pause" your service for something like two months minimally. Also, you can straight up cancel at the end of any month and never are locked in for a certain amount of time. I don't know that I'll sign up for anything long-term any time soon, but if I do, it definitely will be one of the streaming services. I really liked the wide assortment of sports channels on most of them.

Last Edited: 11/25/2018 3:31:33 PM by UpSan Bobcat

TWT
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RE: Cord Cutters! How do you get your Bobcat football?

Posted: 11/25/2018 9:38:08 PM

I noticed if you go to the sign up page for ESPN+ as an example of what you'll be seeing there on the app is Ohio Football in the Athens Block uniform style if you scroll down. I thought that was a midweek special so could the midweek games be moving over there?

https://plus.espn.com /

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