The unofficial online home for fans of the UAB Blazers. Part of Collegiate Sports Nation (CSN).

http://www.sunherald.com/sports/spt-colu...66887.html

I have no issues with this. I can get the station.

Not available on Charter

No need to get it until basketball season & even then only if some of the games are decent.

May go the Sling / Roku route at that time.

Currently have Roku without the Sling package.

Patrick McGee's first article on this was click-bait trash so I'm not even going to read his follow-up.

most beIN games can be found on http://www.thefirstrow.eu - just have your anti-virus and popup blocker up to date.

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I just hope they don't have the same deal they had with the other no name channel. The one where is they are showing it on TV, all access can't stream it.

(05-20-2016 10:03 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I just hope they don't have the same deal they had with the other no name channel. The one where is they are showing it on TV, all access can't stream it.

At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

(05-20-2016 03:04 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

Bright House has a cable monopoly in Birmingham proper and they do carry beIN Sports on their Sports Pass package.

I'd be willing to wager that the majority of Birmingham TV subscribers have access to beIN. That being Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, and Bright House. I don't think Charter has a greater than 50% market share of all TV subscription customers in Birmingham.

Plus everyone can get it on Sling TV if they really wanted the games. $25 a month ($20 a month for Sling, $5 a month for Sports add-on).

Have DirecTV and no access to beIN, though I think I could if I wanted to pay for the extra sports package. Considering I'm dropping cable all together when our contract is up, lack the desire to pay them anything more even for a short period of time.

(05-20-2016 03:04 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 10:03 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I just hope they don't have the same deal they had with the other no name channel. The one where is they are showing it on TV, all access can't stream it.

At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

That did me no good.

(05-20-2016 04:20 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 03:04 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

Bright House has a cable monopoly in Birmingham proper and they do carry beIN Sports on their Sports Pass package.

I'd be willing to wager that the majority of Birmingham TV subscribers have access to beIN. That being Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, and Bright House. I don't think Charter has a greater than 50% market share of all TV subscription customers in Birmingham.

Plus everyone can get it on Sling TV if they really wanted the games. $25 a month ($20 a month for Sling, $5 a month for Sports add-on).

I would just rather it be available on All-Access as well.

(05-20-2016 04:42 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 04:20 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 03:04 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

Bright House has a cable monopoly in Birmingham proper and they do carry beIN Sports on their Sports Pass package.

I'd be willing to wager that the majority of Birmingham TV subscribers have access to beIN. That being Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, and Bright House. I don't think Charter has a greater than 50% market share of all TV subscription customers in Birmingham.

Plus everyone can get it on Sling TV if they really wanted the games. $25 a month ($20 a month for Sling, $5 a month for Sports add-on).

I would just rather it be available on All-Access as well.

All-Access is a sham. The whole concept was designed to let schools produce/stream their own games that aren't televised and for C-USA to have a platform to stream conference tournament/championship games...not as a streaming service for televised games whose rights have been sold to a network.

That said, if C-USA wants to pay for streaming rights for the games to put it on their own streaming service? Fine. But I doubt they do it.

Sling TV is complete crap! Had them for a while, but they don't have the bandwidth to stream without buffering.

You'll be constantly frustrated if you try to go that route.

(05-20-2016 04:20 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 03:04 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

Bright House has a cable monopoly in Birmingham proper and they do carry beIN Sports on their Sports Pass package.

I'd be willing to wager that the majority of Birmingham TV subscribers have access to beIN. That being Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, and Bright House. I don't think Charter has a greater than 50% market share of all TV subscription customers in Birmingham.

Plus everyone can get it on Sling TV if they really wanted the games. $25 a month ($20 a month for Sling, $5 a month for Sports add-on).

Charter just bought Bright House. Of course there is a decent chance they'll just add beIN to the rest of Charter's Birmingham area system but who knows

(05-21-2016 10:13 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 04:20 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 03:04 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  At least with ASN they were carried locally on channel 68. Not being on Charter means that the games won't be available on cable in Birmingham at all, and probably half of pay TV customers in Birmingham are on cable and not dish/u-verse

Bright House has a cable monopoly in Birmingham proper and they do carry beIN Sports on their Sports Pass package.

I'd be willing to wager that the majority of Birmingham TV subscribers have access to beIN. That being Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, and Bright House. I don't think Charter has a greater than 50% market share of all TV subscription customers in Birmingham.

Plus everyone can get it on Sling TV if they really wanted the games. $25 a month ($20 a month for Sling, $5 a month for Sports add-on).

Charter just bought Bright House. Of course there is a decent chance they'll just add beIN to the rest of Charter's Birmingham area system but who knows

For now though...Bright House will continue to operate the same way with the same channels/packages (and who knows what the agreement between Bright House and beIN was or how long the merged company will have to honor it).

And eventually, I'm sure Charter will add beIN Sports out of simple necessity to deal with the growing demand of soccer in the U.S. They don't want those exclusive soccer rights that beIN has to only be available to Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, and Comcast.