Ah, happy days are finally here: Bally Sports on Thursday announced Bally Sports+, a direct-to-consumer streaming platform. Launching September 26th, covering all Ballysports markets — important for Mavericks fans, including Ballysports Southwest.
This is a big help for Mavericks The confusion of local broadcasting in the last few years. Prior to the 2020-2021 season, Bally Sports had not resumed broadcasting deals with numerous TV providers. So local Mavericks fans couldn’t miss it unless they bought the cable, satellite, or DirecTV stream. satellite provider was safe). Worse, all of these options were more expensive than streaming services like YouTube TV and Hulu, which most people use.
So this lasted two seasons. This is the topic I’ve written about and tweeted about in the past that got the most responses, and fans turned to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban for help. , He paid out of his own pocket to give his fans a discount on DirecTV Stream But it didn’t allay fans’ long-term concerns about how to watch their hometown NBA teams.This was a situation that upset not only Mavericks fans, but other markets across the country. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver comments on changes.
At least now fans have the option of paying at least not-so-awful fees to watch the team without signing up for cable, satellite, or another streaming package they don’t want. The offer is said to be $19.99 per month, or $189.99 for the full year. Barry said more pricing options could be announced closer to launch, so hopefully they’ll include discounted rates for viewing certain regions (personal Technically, you don’t need to visit Barry Sports Wisconsin, no offense.)
There are still some questions to be answered, such as streaming quality and service reliability. However, this is at least a good step for those of us who are fed up with NBA TV blackouts and powering crappy illegal streams. This isn’t cheap, but honestly, my bar was so low for this whole situation that I’d like to see Mavericks on my TV without resorting to cable or full-blown streaming services. I wanted to give some money to someone or anyone.I didn’t want to. That low bar is cleared.
