The New York Post provided an update to this rumor that started circulating earlier this year. Last month Amazon pulled out of a deal to invest $115m in Bally and the status of the streaming talks became unclear. Some quick hits –
- Amazon is going to release a brand new sports specific streaming app at the start of the NBA/NHL seasons that will cost around $20 a month
- They are in talks to broadcast all regular season Hawks games minus nationally televised games
- The broadcast would still be a Bally product, but Amazon would handle the stream. Presumably Bob and Nique and the normal Bally staff will still be featured
- This isn't an exclusive deal, so it's possible that Bally would still strike a deal to broadcast games with other streaming services as well like YoutubeTV
All in all even though this might save Bally I'm here for it. Personally I got tired of having to choose between a laggy/barely working app and lagging/barely working pirated streams. Bring on that Amazon stable stream goodness and sharp image quality baby.
by Ice2jc
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I wish Bezos would fuck off. As a simple, dumb guy I wish they’d just sell the rights to all 30 teams to show all 82 games to the single highest bidder.
One platform; one payment. I know the second I pay for these 12 teams, half of the games will be blacked out for some reason or another. They’re begging us to pirate at this point
If we can’t get the games OTA, then this is the next best thing for me, cause I don’t want to have to keep sailing the seas just watch my team.
If Amazon is gonna be involved, they better make a basketball version of the All 22 feed they do for Thursday Night Football. That shit is the premiere way to watch football
Wasn’t there a game last season where the score bug wasn’t on the screen for like an entire quarter? I remember a few funny glitches happened.
I hate this because Amazon tries to shove ads in our face whenever they can, but as long as there’s an ad free/arena feed option and most importantly Bob and Nique, then I’m ok. And bring back Ryan Cameron FOR THR33333333333333!!!!!!
Depending on the specifics, I’m very okay with this. The worst part of the fan experience is dealing with Ballys app. If I can reliably watch games on Amazon then I’ll pay the $20/month.
Anything but the Bally Sports app 🙏
So…I already pay for Amazon prime. Do I have to she’ll out extra money for this?
So I have to pay another $20 a month to get Hawks games?