Couple years ago. Opener of 2020-2021 season against Towson was on FloSports.
I may be mistaken, but the only reason to concern yourself with ACCNX is to watch games in their library. Live games should be available on either the ACCN, ESPN, or the CW (unless Fox or CBS is showing them). And, if you want to watch a game which was already played, regardless of the original network, Hoo_TV is the best source for that. And, since the CW is a broadcasting network (and available nearly everywhere) as well as an internet streamer, none of their content is subject to blackout. I think.
I travel to Europe a lot for work. I used to be able to use a VPN to watch YouTube TV successfully on my tablet but that is no longer the case. It seems YouTube TV has figured out the VPNs that I’ve previously used to watch games. Is Nordstream VPN working on YouTube TV?
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We absolutely have live games on ACCNX, which is effectively the same as ESPN3, meaning you need to have some sort of streaming capability (which can just be the ESPN app on your Smart TV) to watch or at least some sort of “on demand” option through your cable company’s user interface.
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Yup, like game 1
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And to be clear, you can’t get ACCN or ACCNX with only ESPN+. ESPN+ is its own standalone subscription (that I get packaged with a Hulu/Disney+ bundle, though you can buy it as a standalone subscription for like $10/month if you want: https://plus.espn.com/) that has its own library of content apart from what ESPN/2/U/News and the Conference Networks (ACCN, SECN, etc) put out. Every now and again they’ll put one of our games on that instead, though I think this year we’re safe for (both men’s and women’s) basketball at least.
But other non-revenue sports do occasionally get dumped on ESPN+. Soccer and lacrosse (both men’s and women’s) had a handful of non-conference games on it this year.
Yes it’s annoying (it even requires its own secondary log-in when streaming) and a greedy money grab. But complaining about it solves nothing.
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I am probably mis-remembering things, but two seasons ago I switched from Sling TV Orange to YouTube TV and was chagrined to learn that ACCNX was not offered. However, I don’t recall missing any games other than those which were on Bally (RSN), and not all of those. Was I wrong, or have things changed with Bally no longer being an active participant with the ACC?
I don’t think it’s that your YouTube TV subscription didn’t get you ACCNX, only that it wasn’t readily available on their platform. I would bet you could still log into the ESPN app and stream ACCNX games through that using your YouTube TV subscription login.
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Armed with all of the advice here in this thread, and a couple of predecessor threads, I’ve been making some informed inquiries to various providers. Basically, ACCN is available ONLY if you have some TV provider through which you get your ESPN+. So my Verizon free bundle will not get me ACCN.
ACCNX, as I understand it, is for those games that are produced and recorded just as if they were going to be broadcast on TV, but ESPN ran out of channels to put that game on TV. So those games are streaming only. You can still go to the ESPN app and watch those games, live or on replay, but you still have to have a TV provider (Comcast, DirecTV, Hulu +Live TV, Sling, etc.) through which you are accessing ESPN+ (edit: and you have to have ACCN through that TV provider). Some of this is may be a “greedy money grab,” by ESPN, but it mostly has to do with broadcast and recording licenses.
I haven’t decided which to go with, but the recording option is important to me. I would much rather be able to watch the game on my cloud DVR than on the ESPN app on replay when I miss the game live. Haven’t checked Sling yet, but Hulu’s DVR is unlimited and included in their two Live bundles. The only restriction is that shows start being deleted from the back end once they’ve been on the DVR for nine months. So no recording the chip and then watching it four years later when we lose to Furman.
Thanks again everyone. This thread and you guys have been a HUGE help in this.
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Hey @jazznutUVA can this other thread (Free Streaming Platforms) be merged into this one?
Hi all, I know some of you have some good free streaming sites out there that you use. @Hooandtrue for sure and some others I’m not remembering at the moments. I was thinking this thread could be a place to consolidate your free and (likely sketchy 
) streaming sites.
Specifically I am trying to watch Bills vs Dolphins this Sunday. It’s on CBS so being in VA it’s regionally blocked due to the Commanders game. My girl is from Buffalo and this is a must watch. Thanks in advance for any help 
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This is my go to site. Same caveats as above. https://thetvapp.to/
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Go to a sportsbar
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USTVGO is a site similiar to the tv app.
Edit - they no longer have the same sports channels available as last season.
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I just discovered this a few weeks ago. I am really surprised that this site hasn’t been shut down. It offers almost all NBA, MLB, NFL games plus college football and, I assume, college basketball at not cost. In addition you have access to movie channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc. And, many (most) of the network channels (nbc, abc, etc.).
When I first heard of it, I assumed it was some kind of pirated site but I never hear any hate coming from the folks who are trying to sell it. Unless I have missed it, don’t think you can record any of this stuff and that may be why they don’t seem to care.
Shoutout @Hooandtrue and @4547Lambeth, appreciate you guys
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Good God man, clean those cables and cords up. We’re not hokies here.
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Lol the HDMI from laptop to TV isn’t usually there, was a pita to get it in with the way the TV is mounted
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Done.
This is the thing it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out.
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