re: New Orleans Pelicans in advanced discussions to air games on Fox 8

This so desperately needs to happen. The pelicans have such a painfully poor local presence, and this is a major part of it.

When you go to a bar or restaurant with TV’s in New Orleans during a pelicans game, the game should be on. It never is.

The games - and by extension the team- are just not easily accessible through Bally’s.

This team with Joel and AD calling the games on basic fox across the region would be huge to grow a real fanbase.

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How would this work for folks that just have smart tvs, cable, or restaurants/bars?

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The bars and restaurants can put it on Channel 8.

Those with Cable can put it on Channel 8.

Those with a smart tv will need to pay for Hulu, YTTV, etc. and put it on Fox 8.

I don't understand what the frick you're asking.

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Indeed it is. It needs to be Fox8 in New Orleans as well as Fox44 in Baton Rouge and the Fox channel in Lafayette.

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as well as the Fox affiliates in Mississippi

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I’ve had no problems with Pels’ games on Bally. But, whatever. As long as the broadcast crew remains as is, I’m fine with local Fox.

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You're the only one then. It might be the worst app off all time. For my tablet and Roku.

It's also $20 a month. I know it's just $20 but you basically are only getting one thing out of it. It's a streaming service with 0.0000001% of the catalog and quality as something like Netflix or MAX and somehow more expensive.

Over the air won't mean that every streaming option will have it, although the only reason why they wouldn't is if the channel rights contract came up. There may or may not be clauses for this, but I can see it as something a station would want if it obtained a valuable property.

Long term after this season I'm not expecting a full season on Fox 8 that'd require giving up so many prime time spots, at least not in next few years. The best fit is something like WUPL that's over the air but doesn't preclude national programming. Fox 8 isn't going to air multiple Pels games over the Masked Singer. This also means that any of 10 games Fox 8 has would be off peak TV times like weekend games.

So having a secondary station also means that the station owner can double dip by charging Cox, YTTV, Fubo, etc more for the previously cheap station. I believe this is exactly what happened in Phoenix when games were placed on a family channel and there's been an argument over costs for YTTV to carry the station.

Does whatever station owning Fox 8 have a station like WUPL?

That's all to say that if you have an attena you'll be fine indefinitely but if receiving the channel through anyone else it'd eventually be the same problem with stations and carriers arguing over fees.

If the broadcast is over the air the free internet streams will be very easy to find online.