(10-01-2019 03:42 PM)LUSportsFan Wrote:  

(10-01-2019 01:04 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(10-01-2019 12:45 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(10-01-2019 08:35 AM)stever20 Wrote:  so here we are 5 days later and Fox is still dark on Disk/Sling.

October is such a huge month for Fox with baseball playoffs, college football games, NFL of course, and of course SmackDown comes to Fox this week. If they don't resolve it soon- it may be a real long term situation....

It will be intersting for sure.

Dish/Sling has drawn a real hard line in the sand about local channels.

yeah..

Of course the real long term line in the sand... Feb 2 when Fox hosts the Super Bowl. And would even say 2 weeks prior- as the NFC championship game takes place(that's a lot of years the #2 viewed event of the entire tv year).

The local Fox stations are not much of an issue unless one lives out of range of a digital antenna. I have access to two local Fox stations with my mid-range (35-50 mile) indoor antenna where I live.

In addition, I haven't purchased it, but Sling has an option with AirTV which integrates OTA stations received on an antenna into the Sling channel selection and DVR capabilities. AirTV does represent an added one time expense. Depending on the setup one would want, equipment purchase of either $79.99 reduced by a $25.00 credit to the Sling bill or $119.99 reduced by a $50.00 credit to the Sling bill would be required. There are some other uses for the equipment, but its main purpose is integration with Sling.

https://airtv.net/

The main reason I haven't either jumped on the AirTV option or switched to another provider with local channel access like YouTubeTV is that I rarely go to the OTA channels. I can get most of what I want to watch from them with the network apps and through a CBS All Access subscription. I subscribe to CBS All Access mainly because of the extra content since I have access to two CBS stations OTA. Sling has NBC On Demand and had Fox On Demand for those areas without a deal with their local Fox channel. I still use NBC On Demand and go to the OTA option for the other local channels.

The carriage dispute is a minor inconvenience for me right now with access to NFL Network, Redzone, a plethora of ESPN channels including ESPN3 and ESPN+, SEC Network, SEC+, the ACC Network, ACC Extra, the PAC12 Network, NBC SportsNetwork, Stadium, BEIN, MLB Network, NHL Network, NBA TV, the Tennis Channel, and CBS All Access in addition to OTA access, there are more games than I can reasonably watch even without FS1 and BTN. It is a whole lot more than I had access to as a kid with maybe one or two local channels coupled with an occasional Houston channel on a good day.

Back to Dish-Sling/FS1-FS2-FoxLocal, the channels I am missing right now are FS1, FS2, and BTN. That is primarily FS1 and BTN since those are some of the channels I occasionally watch during football season. I rarely watch anything on FS2.

I have Hulu Live to stream channels, but also set up AirTV for OTA channels (which, as of this past week, now uses the Sling app for channel surfing even if you don't have a Sling subscription). This is mainly so that I have access to WGN and PBS (neither of which are available on Hulu Live in the Chicago market). Assuming that you can get a good OTA signal from your home, the AirTV is a nice setup since it can stream that OTA signal to any TV in your home without directly connecting that TV to an antenna. (For instance, my antenna and AirTV are in an upstairs guest bedroom where it can get the best OTA signal for my house. This allows me to get those OTA channels through the Sling app on my Roku devices in the family room and basements TVs where it would have been difficult/impossible to have direct antenna connections.)

For NFL fans, this is also a way to get access to whatever games are playing in your home market even if you're traveling. Since what you're watching is your own home OTA signal, you can travel anywhere and receive your home channels through your mobile device and there aren't any blackouts. So, as a Bears fan, I can watch the Bears games on my local Fox or CBS station through AirTV (via the Sling app) regardless of where I might be traveling to in the US without any need for Sunday Ticket.