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Imagine subscribing to anything in 2026 🏴‍☠️

It was already worse than 2 subscriptions before... now they ensured that people who are dumb enough to give them money could not say "well, I guess I can skip Monday games"

So they have segmented the broadcast further; showing zero care or respect for their customer base in Canada

In time this will backfire badly. We used to be a fam who watched Hockey when our kids were little, because of that my now grown son had asked to "get back into it" (we had already given up) so we pirated the feeds because it's cheaper and better service than any official broadcast partner. He could not believe we needed to check the NHL site to find out which service was carrying "today's game"

It is easy to see how so many families would just decide to go without and the fan-hood that is passed from parents to kids as they watched sports as a family would be over. Even now, most of my sons' friends could not care less about Hockey which was definitely not the case in my generation. Good job Bettman!

Reading this thread makes me so happy I long ago lost interest in watching sports. It sounds like a complete headache to be a fan of any sport these days.

In Australia, national sports like AFL, NRL and cricket are legally required to broadcast on free-to-air television.

Europeans trying to watch all their football team's games: First time?

These greedy sports teams are going to lose our young people since they can’t watch… and they won’t have many fans in the future

Watching every NFL game in the US has become like 5+ subscriptions

Same deal with F1, couldnt renew my F1 sub without getting apple TV. Ive never owned an apple product in my life, not gonna sub to their garbage. Bye F1tv.

Welcome to watching sports in 2026 😭

Me: Well, at least I can watch for free on CBC on Saturday nights.

Rogers: Yoink!

Oh is this another one of those shitty things we have been leading the world with in the UK?

I think we've had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years

*You still miss half the matches played because of the Saturday 3pm blackout, which prohibits those matches being broadcast

I would never give these billionaire fucks a dime. I'd rather go watch beer leagues at the local rink.

ESPN+ was actually good if your team is in another TV market, but not broadcasting all the national playoff games was ridiculous - cancelled it.

I’m very close to Canada, bought try an antenna to grab the CBC broadcast.

I just wanna give a shout-out to the Blab, who has been illegally broadcasting Mets and Rangers games (and other stuff, including jeopardy and Seinfeld) for more than a decade now. I gave you like .01btc in 2017 or 2018, and that's definitely a lot more now than it was then, but you deserve it.

Just need 1 subscription to an IPTV service. I'm using BunnyTV, what are other folks using?

Funny how pirating is so hard in sports of all things.

I don't >:)

My dad has been complaining about this kind of thing for baseball. The subscription to watch games online specifically blacks out home games because..l fuck you I guess? He’s paying for the service but he still needs to either use a VPN or pirate just to watch some of the games.

Similar for rugby in Europe. I subscribed last year and only discovered on the first day of the league that I was only getting 50/60% of my team's games in the domestic league, not to mention the other league.

WWE fans crying (we have 3-5 subscriptions for all our shows

I prefer watching IRL anyway since I don't have a high refresh rate TV and I haven't even seen any broadcasts higher than the typical 24fps. I can almost never see the puck on TV. It moves too fast.

Also my team fucking sucks anyway. One of, like, only 2 teams that have never won the Stanley Cup.