To add some context these used to be Fox Sports regional channels until Disney bought Fox and had to divest the regional sports channels because it wasn't allowed to own them and ESPN as well.

cash wrote:

I thought live sports was where the money is. 

Not if there are some black out complications.

FROM:  https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nhl/predators/2023/03/15/bally-sports-bankruptcy-nashville-predators-nhl-fans/70001184007/

    "If the Predators are playing, the game is blacked out by ESPN because of Bally Sports’ dominion over this region.
Except I’ve not been able to watch Bally Sports, either, because my streaming service – Hulu – couldn’t reach a deal in recent years to keep the regional sports networks.
Same for YouTubeTV, which I’d actually joined and then abandoned for Hulu because of those Sinclair RSNs.
Then Hulu lost them, too, and I wasn't going to keep moving to accomodate. I threw up my hands, along with other frustrated cord-cutters in markets all over the country.
Such a setup – denying a large number of viewers from watching their local teams – has been absurd.It’s also terrible business."

There is an alternative solution for NHL and MLB fans. NHL66 and MLB66 give you access to both home and visiting team telecasts. All commercials are blacked out. A VPN is required. In the case of the NHL, the league has now blocked all VPN's set to Canada and the U.S. I have had success with other countries around the world.

Radiowiz wrote:

mace wrote:

There is an alternative solution for NHL and MLB fans. NHL66 and MLB66 give you access to both home and visiting team telecasts. All commercials are blacked out. A VPN is required. In the case of the NHL, the league has now blocked all VPN's set to Canada and the U.S. I have had success with other countries around the world.

Commercials please.

Why? You still get to see the entire game plus the intermission talking heads.