re: Pels switching from Bally’s to OTA

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Just be aware that having Bounce in your cable package can be deceiving. I don't remember what providers, but people here ran into an issue where they have the national Bounce feed and you need the local version to get the game.

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I think you are right and I think I remember having this issue last season for a couple of games.

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Pelicans game>Canes Box combo...

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Well, I'm not a fatty, so that's definitely more than I spend on fast food each month.

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I was unable to watch the games, antennae did not work in my area. This is a bad move.

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First, I'm not saying anyone should be happy about changes that negatively impact them. In fact I'd encourage people to contact the team so they know what some of the issues they need to overcome are.

However, if you can't get the local channels and the expected $15 streaming option seems like too much I wonder if the problem isn't $15 a month is too much to watch the Pels, but that you aren't getting enough value from your current subscriptions and it might be time to adjust those. Sports is still very much tied to traditional TV packages and cord cutting options are in their infancy still, but Entertainment has already been disconnected and can be had pretty cheaply. If you're not a sports junkie are you really getting your money's worth paying $80-$100 a month for traditional TV?

Included with what you might already pay for:

Prime Video with ads - included with Amazon Prime
Paramount+ with ads (live stream NFL games on CBS) - included with Walmart+
Max with ads (HBO, Turner Sports, Warn Bros/Discovery) - included with AT&T/Cricket wireless phone plans

Cheap:

Hulu with ads (FX shows, prime time shows from Fox and ABC) - $2 a month Black Friday special the last 5 years
Peacock with ads (NBC/Universal) - They regularly run promos where you can get it for $2-$3 a month for 12 months
Frndly TV (Hallmark and History channels) - $8 a month

Free:

FAST networks are like traditional ad supported TV with a guide. They are owned by the different major players and play mostly back catalog from that provider, like a CSI channel, Star Trek channel, or a Frasier channel, but there is a lot of solid content for free.
Pluto (Paramount/CBS)
Freevee (Amazon)
Tubi (Fox)
Zeam (Local newscasts from Gray Media like WBRZ, WAFB, WVUE).

ATL, most of us are paying $20 a month. The issue is there is no streaming option currently. I sure hope there is, but they did their big announcement with no streaming package available. If that holds, many of us will not be able to watch the games at any price. Again, only possibility would be going backwards from streaming to a cable provider.

If the situation is that they are replacing Bally’s with a new streaming option at a lesser price, then of course we would all be satisfied. That is not what has happened thus far.

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No longer included with what you might already pay for:

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Pelicans games in HD

This means that every game is going to be on just the regular channel 9? Can’t be right?