Suns Sign New Free-TV Deal
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I tried to watch the game for free on the app last week, but??? I guess I'm just too old to understand these things and how it works. Couldn't get it to work, got mad and deleted the app.. What else is new?
Here's an FAQ if you have questions, ask here. I'm sure someone can help get your situation under control. Hopefully this webpage helps you though.
FAQ: How you can watch the Phoenix Suns in Arizona
Here's how you can watch the Phoenix Suns on Arizona's Family in Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff and Yuma.
I tried to watch the game for free on the app last week, but??? I guess I'm just too old to understand these things and how it works. Couldn't get it to work, got mad and deleted the app.
Rabbit ears work in flag.
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I would guess they won't. They have not the last few years, except for games that have been flexed into a national broadcast. If you wanna watch the national broadcasts you'll need ESPN or TNT.
Although, games listed as "NBAtv" will have the local broadcast, all NBAtv does is piggy back on a local feed.
There's a broadcast schedule on az family.
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you can download the pdf too.
Just wish the mods would sticky something.
@Ronin any chance you can make a lock stickied thread with the Suns schedule for us here?
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Or constantly remind me. I had a lot going on last week.
No rest for the wicked, especially now that the Suns season is rolling and the DBacks are in the World Series!
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That seems to be the case for tonight’s game with Chicago. I have Hulu + Live TV and the game was nowhere to be found. Do I need to switch to YouTube TV?
Probably or get an OTA antenna. That’s how I am getting them. I am also buying a cheap Tableau DVR to record them.
For some reason this new TV arrangement is affecting NBA League Pass on DIRECTV. Many of the Suns broadcasts are not available. Like tonight I only had the Bulls broadcast available. I see the same thing for the Thunder game on Sunday. Only the Thunder broadcast is available. But then I just checked LP on the NBA app on AppleTV and the Phoenix stream was available there for tonight. So it seems to be specific to DIRECTV.
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I could be wrong but I don't think that has anything to do with what Ishbia has done. For me, it's not been unusual to have only the home team broadcast available on League Pass (through Spectrum). Spectrum only makes a certain number of channels available for the NBA package and almost every night, a few of the games will only include the home broadcast. And when we were at our worst, it happened for the majority of our games. I've had to settle for the other guys broadcast crew quite often the past 7 or 8 years.
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Interesting. In Texas, I have had all versions of the broadcast available. And in fact, even if it's on NBA TV, I'm still getting the Suns broadcast. They are even putting on the Suns Halftime Show now and some of the Pregame.
Local blackouts and streaming rights come into play if you live in AZ. That’s why even though if you have Hulu (which has AZFamily) you can’t watch the games there. If the game is on TNT or ESPN you. Any watch on league pass. This was so much easier back in the UPN45 days.
Not for me. Almost every Suns broadcast was available when not on NBA TV, ABC, ESPN, or TNT. Very few games only had one team's available. But like I said, this must be DIRECTV specific since yours was on Spectrum. I bet the difference is that the Arizona Bally's Sports channel which is available no longer carries the games and there is no AZ Family 3TV equivalent on DIRECTV.
DIRECTV?
I'm in So California. Only Lakers and Clippers games are blacked out and I'm forced to watch their local broadcasts.
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No mine is through nba.com.
OK, yeah, it's DIRECTV specific then. Like I said, it was available on the NBA app. Might have to start using that. Can you watch when the game is in progress and start at the beginning?
it will probably work for you because Chap is also out state. In state you are still subject to blackouts/streaming rights.
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I had all the games when I was on Directv too but my point was that it isn't because of the deals that Ishbia made. Spectrum, Directv, Comcast or whoever decides how many channels to make available for League Pass - I assume they do that in their specific deals with League Pass so that neither advertise more than they provide. It was even worse when I switched from Dtv to Verizon Fios when it first came out. They only made like 5 HD channels available and they were home team broadcast only, as were most of the non-HD games they showed.
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