I watched the Champions League Final for $3 through my Apple TV box. It was fine. I’m sure you have a reason for your anger towards BR but I thought it was fine.
B/R, ESPN+, NBCSN...any broadcaster who charges extra to watch a stream pisses me off.
The pay for the rights to show the League. They sign up advertisers to advertise, charging them tons of money to put their products before our eyes.
We are subject to slightly delayed kickoffs so they can stretch that last advert in. So if you follow on line you find out about the goal before you see it. Sometimes it's been nearly a minute delayed.
AND THEN...those who want to watch, they try to squeeze out ever increasing amounts through having to pay for extra channels, to now paying to watch online.
Those who do pay the fees help the corporate execs to decide to charge more for it and justify their ever increasing appetite to gather money from all angles. This doesn't benefit football at all. All it does is slowly deteriorate the amount of matches one can watch on tv and force people to pay for the privilege of watching their team.
As of now, unless there is a change, if we want to watch Liverpool in the League Cup or FA Cup we HAVE to pay for ESPN+. None of the matches will be on any of the various ESPN channels. Instead we can watch sports talk shows or repeats of whatever rather than a live match.
Like feck they're getting my money. I'll find pirate streams instead. Or just listen to the audio of the match via the club website. Where at least the commentary isn't a bunch of bullshit.
Anyone wanting to pay for streams, good for you. You're helping to exclude significant numbers of supporters from watching on tv and helping the broadcasters to their fat exec bonuses.
But hey ho, it's no big deal.
