Sling TV Tests Fox-Anchored Multi-Stream Service

[Mr Tony]

OK ICE, on Sling TV Fox Sports South it's college baseball. Alt is showing the REDS game, Yay...and on my friends Fox Sports South cable it has an air show on!! Weird..but at least I know with Sling TV I can get my REDS unlike cable who only shows a REDS game maybe once in a week. Also getting Atlanta Braves on Fox Sports Southeast

weird.
Is your friend in the area? With the way FS South is broken out to 3 different "sub RSN's" depending on area it can get goofy

Like I say what I saw online was FS Tennessee (which is a sublet of FS South) had the Reds game on cable, college baseball on FS1 and Braves on Fox SE

 

[andy_horton]

weird.
Is your friend in the area? With the way FS South is broken out to 3 different "sub RSN's" depending on area it can get goofy

Like I say what I saw online was FS Tennessee (which is a sublet of FS South) had the Reds game on cable, college baseball on FS1 and Braves on Fox SE

Yes. He's a couple of streets down. The first logo to come on is "We are Fox Sports, we are, Ohio. Second is "We are Fox Sports, we are Tennessee" but it's actually the fs Ohio feed

 

[andy_horton]

Yes. He's a couple of streets down. The first logo to come on is "We are Fox Sports, we are, Ohio. Second is "We are Fox Sports, we are Tennessee" but it's actually the fs Ohio feed

The Fox Sports South feed was showing an airshow both on cable and Sling and the REDS were on the 2nd alt feed of South. Today, they are on the 1st alt feed, while South shows something else and sportsouth shows the Braves

 

[andy_horton]

weird.
Is your friend in the area? With the way FS South is broken out to 3 different "sub RSN's" depending on area it can get goofy

Like I say what I saw online was FS Tennessee (which is a sublet of FS South) had the Reds game on cable, college baseball on FS1 and Braves on Fox SE

Wednesday I'll get the cubs vs cards on the alt channel and then later REDS on the same channel. Predators are blacked out for some reason

 

[andy_horton]

The Fox Sports South feed was showing an airshow both on cable and Sling and the REDS were on the 2nd alt feed of South. Today, they are on the 1st alt feed, while South shows something else and sportsouth shows the Braves

EDIT-- FSSOUTH is showing the REDS today, but also on the alt feed

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

Wednesday I'll get the cubs vs cards on the alt channel and then later REDS on the same channel. Predators are blacked out for some reason

The Predators are blocked out because they are in the playoffs & their games can be found on NBC Sports Network(& on PlayStation Vue if you have at least their $35.00 plan). I'll be honest, with having PlayStation Vue, I find it hard to justify having either Sling TV plan, unless I want A&E, History Channel, Viceland, El Rey, &/or Lifetime, which PlayStation Vue doesn't carry on any of their plans.

 

[Bruce]

You can get A&E and History shows on the Roku without logging in, I discovered this last nite when doing my monthly log in on all my TV Everywhere apps.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

You can get A&E and History shows on the Roku without logging in, I discovered this last nite when doing my monthly log in on all my TV Everywhere apps.

Yeah, the monthly logins are always the highlight of my months, especially when signing in for some apps(cough~NBC Sports App~cough) is a major drama because it refuses to work with certain platforms(Kindle Fire), operating systems(Linux, Mac), or browsers(pick one) to sign in. I could sign in to keep the apps on my Roku & Fire TV active, but it was an exercise in futility to try to keep the app on my Apple TV active, no matter what I did, not even using Windows helped.

 

[Mr Tony]

You can get A&E and History shows on the Roku without logging in, I discovered this last nite when doing my monthly log in on all my TV Everywhere apps.

for some stuff. Most of it you need a login

 

[Mr Tony]

The Predators are blocked out because they are in the playoffs & their games can be found on NBC Sports Network(& on PlayStation Vue if you have at least their $35.00 plan). I'll be honest, with having PlayStation Vue, I find it hard to justify having either Sling TV plan, unless I want A&E, History Channel, Viceland, El Rey, &/or Lifetime, which PlayStation Vue doesn't carry on any of their plans.

shouldn't be if the local RSN is carrying it. I was blacked out the other day on NBC SN on Roku because the Wild game was on FS North

 

[Mr Tony]

Yeah, the monthly logins are always the highlight of my months, especially when signing in for some apps(cough~NBC Sports App~cough) is a major drama because it refuses to work with certain platforms(Kindle Fire), operating systems(Linux, Mac), or browsers(pick one) to sign in. I could sign in to keep the apps on my Roku & Fire TV active, but it was an exercise in futility to try to keep the app on my Apple TV active, no matter what I did, not even using Windows helped.

I just learned that yesterday with NBC SN and the BTN one. Heck when I went to the BTN login page on the internet it said "page not found"....took 4 times for it to work

 

[Mr Tony]

Yes. He's a couple of streets down. The first logo to come on is "We are Fox Sports, we are, Ohio. Second is "We are Fox Sports, we are Tennessee" but it's actually the fs Ohio feed

Because the Reds are on FS Ohio which is not the RSN in that area. They are put on the subfeed of FS Tennessee (which is just FS South but some cut ins)

Damn that would be confusing in that area depending on which provider you have

 

[Mr Tony]

The Fox Sports South feed was showing an airshow both on cable and Sling and the REDS were on the 2nd alt feed of South. Today, they are on the 1st alt feed, while South shows something else and sportsouth shows the Braves

The 1st alt feed was probably the Preds game

The Reds game will always be on an alt in your area as Dish/Sling carries the FS South feed

 

[Mr Tony]

Wednesday I'll get the cubs vs cards on the alt channel and then later REDS on the same channel.

sweet

Predators are blacked out for some reason

running a zip on the Directv RSN site it says you are in the Hurricanes market which is very possible. Maybe at the state line is where the cutoff is.

now looking at an old article (dated late 2013) it says Georgia is covered by both Hurricanes and Preds

edit: checking on cable Sunday night the game is on FS Tennessee which should put the game on an alt channel on sling

 

[andy_horton]

Because the Reds are on FS Ohio which is not the RSN in that area. They are put on the subfeed of FS Tennessee (which is just FS South but some cut ins)

Damn that would be confusing in that area depending on which provider you have

Today REDS are on cable on Fox Sports South but blacked out on Sling. Very confusing

 

[Mr Tony]

Nothing on the ALTs?

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

Today REDS are on cable on Fox Sports South but blacked out on Sling. Very confusing

Would the Reds be blacked out on MLB.TV for you? I know that that would be above & beyond what you are paying for Sling TV, but being in Georgia, it seems like a pleasant fluke that you can get Reds games anyway.

 

[Mr Tony]

Today REDS are on cable on Fox Sports South but blacked out on Sling. Very confusing

Yeah it doesn't

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

I think that for a lot of people, Sling TV is just a toy or a backup/fallback system for if your cable/satellite tv goes out.

 

[Tampa8]

Extremely doubtful. How often do you think DISH loses a signal to someone? Rare. For a long time? Rarer. Cable may be somewhat more often, but people are complaining about high costs, so they are paying those costs AND paying another $20 or more a month? They are using Sling in conjunction with Amazon often, and Netflix at times also. (Amazon often because they already have Prime anyway)