Worked when I was four. Why not give it a try.
No, wait a minute. That didn’t work at all. My dad whipped my butt. Maybe you need a better plan…
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This is a great summary!
The whole muddled branding/rollout/implementation of ACCNX really bugs me. It’s a great service! I’m constantly using it, not even a ton for football/basketball, but a lot of our non revenue sports are shown on there! But if there’s so much confusion on this board, which probably represents the top few percent of diehard and engaged fans, how is any normal person finding this content?
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The YouTube TV basic package carries ACCN, all the ESPNs, FS1, and your local CW affiliate. So you’re covered for everything except the ACCNX games, which you should be able to watch on the ESPN streaming app or ESPN+ by logging in with your YouTube TV credentials.
Always start the process ten minutes before tipoff, because you are GUARANTEED to hit a glitch or two while trying to log in to the ESPN streaming apps.
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I say this as a geezer who, back in the day, used to call 900 (pay) numbers to get updated scores on all the college basketball games in progress. Usually I would have to listen to ten or twenty scores from around the nation before they got around to the latest on Virginia.
This was a problem when I found myself in a restaurant on the night of a game. I had to excuse myself to hit the pay phones (if you remember pay phones) every 15 minutes or so. My dinner companions no doubt assumed that I was doing coke in the men’s room. But no—my addiction was far, far worse.
So I am willing to suffer a little to see EVERY. GODDAM. GAME.
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It is frankly idiotic. I got YouTube TV because it has the ACC Network. That’s already a niche network I went out of my way to look up and get. I assumed if I got a package with it, I got all its content through the service I got it on. Then there’s a sub-channel? One I can’t watch through YouTube TV directly? They are tiering my access to this stupid niche channel?
It took me misguidedly bitching on here before somebody explained to me I technically had access and how to get to it. I hadn’t seen that anywhere. Maybe I was just ignorant - good chance - but I was actively trying! I have to assume they are just murdering their streaming numbers by doing it this way.
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This is really the problem. ESPN created this network, and a streaming supplement for games that don’t fit into the broadcast schedule. But then they don’t make any effort to advertise what the “X” means or how it’s awesome that they’re basically making all the ACC games accessible either via broadcast or streaming.
Seems like if they want people to buy the product, they might want to, you know, market the product.
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So basically YouTubeTV + purchasing ESPN+ gets you all of our games. Yeah?
You don’t need ESPN+ for UVA football or basketball, not this season anyway, only a handful of non-revenue sport contests.
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You need any broadcast provider subscription with a package that includes ESPN+, that also carries ACCN. You can’t just, for example, get the Disney bundle with Hulu and ESPN+. That will only include the ESPN channels, not the ACCN, B1G, and SEC channels.
I haven’t looked into all of the options on the streaming provider networks yet, as I had the actual DirecTV dish on my house for the past 15 years. But when you price out your options among Sling, Hulu+Live, DirecTVonline, YouTubeTV, etc, you need to make sure that they have ACCN.
The tricky thing is that you’ll still have to use the ESPN App to get games that are on ACCNX. You open the app, select the game that you want to watch, then log in with your provider credentials. As @Simbaud noted above, always start this process before the game starts. There are invariably glitches opening the program no matter what your wifi or wireless signal strength is.
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Not every provider requires you to go through the ESPN App to get to ACCNX. I have Sling and I just have to select the ACC Network’s page and it gives me not only the live ACCN content, but also all the on-demand content (let’s rewatch Unbelievable for the 100th time!), but also all the live content streaming on ACCNX.
I just can’t speak for the other providers. Folks saying they can’t find it on YouTube TV, I’m taking them at their word that it’s not there and not that they just haven’t figured it out.
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Interesting. I’m probably going to go with either Sling or Hulu+live, so that will be a plus in Sling’s favor.
Yes, you can not find ACCNX on YouTube TV.'s streaming app.
If you have YouTube TV, ignore everything written here that mentions ESPN+ in a statement. You do not need ESPN+ to watch ACCNX. You just need the ESPN app; or, you can watch the game on your personal electric device by going to ESPN and logging in with your YouTube TV account.
It will be a live stream, so no DVR-ing it, or skipping back to re-watch a play.
It is what it is, which is better than what it was.
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Hulu live has it directly in the app too. Or at least did last year. Haven’t watched much college football this year to check if it’s still there
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One annoying thing about all the app based watching is it really inhibits flipping the channels during timeouts and halftime. Needs a tech fix
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I am unsure of this, but I have a suspicion that the ACC Network app’s interface varies from service provider to service provider. And, it changes, too. Two years ago, I went from Sling TV Orange to YouTube TV. Sling had an ACCNX option in its interface, but YouTube TV did not. Last year, I returned to Sling, but the ACCNX interface had changed significantly from what it had been in 2021. I am beginning to think that some generalized instructions, not all but some, are not completely helpful, and that they also change from year to year.
Re-fucking tweet
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If you want to see the options to get ACCN where you live you can use this link:
Ok. Time for my first dumb question. Once i get ACCNX do i have to watch on my desktop or can it be run to my TV?