As most of us know, it's been a pain for years trying to watch the Reds if you were considered in-market but didn't want to pay for one of the very few cable options that had FSOhio/BSOhio.

This year with FanDuel Sports Network taking over Bally Sports, they finally have a good option for those in market.
FDSN offers streaming-only for $20/month (or cheaper if you buy the full "season" or year) and you get every game of the team(s) in market.
https://www.mlb.com/reds/fans/reds-tv?affiliateId=cin-redstv-022025

This has been especially nice for me, as I live in Nashville. Technically, Nashville is local market for Reds and Braves, but there would only be one channel on cable to watch, and they typically preferred to air the Braves games over Reds games. So as a Reds fan, you were lucky to even get half the games when it was on cable.

I've been trying this out since the season started and been able to watch every single game.
It's also nice because I don't need to get a specific full cable provider.

(04-16-2025, 09:26 AM)ochocincos Wrote: As most of us know, it's been a pain for years trying to watch the Reds if you were considered in-market but didn't want to pay for one of the very few cable options that had FSOhio/BSOhio.

This year with FanDuel Sports Network taking over Bally Sports, they finally have a good option for those in market.
FDSN offers streaming-only for $20/month (or cheaper if you buy the full "season" or year) and you get every game of the team(s) in market.
https://www.mlb.com/reds/fans/reds-tv?affiliateId=cin-redstv-022025

This has been especially nice for me, as I live in Nashville. Technically, Nashville is local market for Reds and Braves, but there would only be one channel on cable to watch, and they typically preferred to air the Braves games over Reds games. So as a Reds fan, you were lucky to even get half the games when it was on cable.

I've been trying this out since the season started and been able to watch every single game.
It's also nice because I don't need to get a specific full cable provider.

Yep. I already have YoutubeTV but to watch the reds last year i had to also subscribe to Fubo. 

This year it was just $100 for the entire season. Much better. 

(04-16-2025, 09:46 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Yep. I already have YoutubeTV but to watch the reds last year i had to also subscribe to Fubo. 

This year it was just $100 for the entire season. Much better. 

"much better". Yeah, it's always great paying money to watch this shit year after year. 

(04-17-2025, 05:16 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: "much better". Yeah, it's always great paying money to watch this shit year after year. 

It's still money being paid, even if getting it through a cable subscriber.

At least with the direct option, you can easily choose to cancel it if team ends up sucking, you need or want to save money, etc.
Harder to justify cutting if it's all the cable channels because you want to watch other things in the package.

Right now, I'm paying for Sunday Ticket through YT for Bengals and now FDSN for Reds.
May end up trying out ESPN+ for Red Wings next season.
I did NHL Center Ice one season and enjoyed it but haven't been interested enough to get ESPN+ yet.