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Why isn't there a cheap-ish service where I can get *just* the news and only the major sports channels?

Granted, with radio, I wouldn't need the news as much; and have free audio feeds, and airs shows at night and in the early morning. But like, there's no affordable way to get just the major sports channels. I'm talking , , , , , , , and .

casey is remote

is the cheapest way but if I want both and channels, I'd need Orange + Blue, which costs $55, not significantly cheaper than the other options.

I am not at the point now where I'm down to pay for sports TV yet. I'm thinking that the only service I'd find worth paying for at the moment would be .

I get ESPN+ with my cell plan (which work pays for anyway so that’s a bonus). Beyond that I’m selective. I got NFL+ which lets me see any Sunday game after 7-8pm on Sunday and it steams the other games live. Way cheaper than NFL ticket at about $100 for the whole season. As I follow the local hockey team I pay $20/month for Ballys but turn it off once the playoffs moves to ESPN (2nd round). And that’s it for me. Not super cheap but better than when I was paying DirecTV $80/month year round plus another $200-300 for the NFL. No idea what YouTube is going to charge next year but not my problem.

@midway

> plus another $200-300 for the NFL

WHAT

The NFL Sunday ticket ran about that per season. It got ugly. Then I found I was DVR’ing the game I wanted to see anyway so the NFL+ made sense.