A while back, espn, fox and time Warner agreed to make a streaming network for sports called Venu. This intrigued me as I was unsure if I would continue to be able to have access to all cal football games.

I checked on the status of Venu, and they are targeting a 'Fall 2024' launch date, which means I dont know if that will include the start of the college football season, but other details have emerged. Everything on the National Fox and ABC/ESPN broadcasts will be available and this includes the ACCNetwork. Further, the initial price is $43 a month, which is about $30 cheaper than youtubetv.

Unfortunately the service will not include any games on NBC or CBS, or any of the regional sports networks.

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/other/venu-sports-launch-date-pricing-everything-you-need-know

In summary, the good is the price and all Cal games. The bad is no NBC and CBS, and the service might not be ready for the start of the season.

I plan to subscribe to Youtube TV and see if Venu is stable enough to use this football season. Note that Venu will include ESPN+ (and ACCDX, Big 12) games as well. I suspect Disney+/Hulu will offer a discounted bundle if you have those.

On paper, it looks fantastic for me since I have an antenna for all locals (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX). This is their target audience- seasonal subscribers who have cut the cord. If you want a true cable replacement with all Cal games, just get Youtube TV.

YouTubeTV is the best option for streaming at this point. Only downside is that in a lot of markets you won't get your local RSNs (regional sports networks). If that's important to you, might want to look into DirecTV streaming.

I live on the east coast and was streaming Cal games from the Pac-12 Network from an X-Finity account at a place we had in the Bay Area onto to my Macbook.

Other than that I am a luddite and never learned how to use our

"smart" TV (several years old, not that smart). Finally installed Firestick so it actually gets new stuff.

So I was under the impression I could just install an App for the ACC Network via Firestick. Sounds like I am
wrong.

You guys--is $79 for Youtube TV really my best option?

Was waiting for this thread !!!!

Bearacious said:

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I live on the east coast and was streaming Cal games from the Pac-12 Network from an X-Finity account at a place we had in the Bay Area onto to my Macbook.

Other than that I am a luddite and never learned how to use our

"smart" TV (several years old, not that smart). Finally installed Firestick so it actually gets new stuff.

So I was under the impression I could just install an App for the ACC Network via Firestick. Sounds like I am
wrong.

You guys--is $79 for Youtube TV really my best option?

Was waiting for this thread !!!!

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My current plan is wait as long as possible to find out as much about Venu as possible, but I'll probably do youtubetv as you also get redzone. That will help me with my fantasy football on sundays.

what about slingtv? Used that last year as a P12 network access and it worked. They should have ACCN right?

ACC Network is available on a lot of systems, including Sling.

https://sportsnaut.com/how-to-watch-acc-network/

You can watch it via the ESPN app, but you need to have a subscription service (cable, satellite, or streaming) that gets the network. Can't just pay for it directly.

For me, I live in the Bay Area and YouTube TV carries the local sports networks (NBC Sports Bay Area & California) and the local network affiliates (Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, CW), so it pretty much serves my needs. For everyone else, it depends on what else you want to watch.

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I live on the east coast and was streaming Cal games from the Pac-12 Network from an X-Finity account at a place we had in the Bay Area onto to my Macbook.

Other than that I am a luddite and never learned how to use our

"smart" TV (several years old, not that smart). Finally installed Firestick so it actually gets new stuff.

So I was under the impression I could just install an App for the ACC Network via Firestick. Sounds like I am
wrong.

You guys--is $79 for Youtube TV really my best option?

Was waiting for this thread !!!!

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Well, the ACC is an east coast conference. Not sure if your in an ACC school's market, but you might just have the ACC Network in your Xfinity cable package or can easily upgrade to get it. You should check with Comcast on that.

I am looking at Sling TV. For the Orange package it includes ESPN for $40, then you can add the Sports package which gives you ACCN for an additional $11. /total $51 plus fees. Has anyone done this? How is the quality and any problems.

I absolutely don't have the ACC Network in my local (Maine) Xfinity package as I am on something called sub-basic: I get about five channels (local stations and the shopping channel, basically) and my internet service for $85 a month. There's no a la carte--next level is $150, and I will have to check to see if it includes ACC--suspect it doesn't. I was logging in to my Xfinity account in the Bay Area place--legally-for years, and am cheap so want to find the ACC as economically as possible. Will look into Sling--am emboldened by the fact that I could even install Firestick. I knew how to do a lot of stuff with my Macbook for work, but resolutely refused to learn anything beyond the minimum for home TV--now the Bears are making me !!!

ACC Network on site in Berkeley! 🎥#GoBears pic.twitter.com/8J5JesLYJz

— CalFootballPR (@calfootballpr) August 2, 2024

Sling Orange + Sports Extra for like $51/mo worked great for me last year. No issues on my Roku and iOS apps. Big plus is NFL RedZone in that. Just make sure you don't want CBS, ABC, etc. I believe they offer a $55/mo deal with FS1 if you prepay 4 months of service.

A quick update: Venu sports has an expected launch date of the end of this month. Which means it would be ready in time for Cal football.

On the downside, fubo is currently suing the network, and that might stall or delay the launch.

https://frontofficesports.com/source-venu-sports-app-will-launch-in-august/

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I absolutely don't have the ACC Network in my local (Maine) Xfinity package as I am on something called sub-basic: I get about five channels (local stations and the shopping channel, basically) and my internet service for $85 a month. There's no a la carte--next level is $150, and I will have to check to see if it includes ACC--suspect it doesn't. I was logging in to my Xfinity account in the Bay Area place--legally-for years, and am cheap so want to find the ACC as economically as possible. Will look into Sling--am emboldened by the fact that I could even install Firestick. I knew how to do a lot of stuff with my Macbook for work, but resolutely refused to learn anything beyond the minimum for home TV--now the Bears are making me !!!

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The CW Network, which is also available through free over the air digital broadcasting will carry ACC games every Saturday. So that's a couple of Cal games give or take. Ironically they will also be covering 11 Pac-2 games with OSU and WSU as well this year.

https://cw39.com/cw/the-cw-to-broadcast-13-acc-football-games-for-the-2024-season/

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2024/07/2024-cw-time-slots-for-acc-pac2-games.html

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Possibilities for...

9/21/24: Michigan St at BC, Rutgers at VT, JMU at UNC, TCU at SMU (I assume ABC/ESPN will pick up Cal at FSU, GT at Louisville, and NC State at Clemson - probably MSU at BC as well, tbh).

9/28/24: WKU at BC, NIU at NC State, Louisiana at Wake, UNC at Duke (I assume ABC/ESPN will pick up FSU at SMU and Stanford at Clemson).

10/5/24 (noon): BC at UVA, Duke at GT, Pitt at UNC, SMU at Louisville, Wake at NC State (I assume ABC/ESPN will pick up Clemson at FSU [duh!], Miami at Cal, and VT at Stanford).

10/12/24 (noon): Cal at Pitt, GT at UNC, Louisville at UVA, Syracuse at NC State (I assume ESPN will pick up Clemson at Wake).

10/19/24 (noon): Miami at Louisville or UVA at Clemson (I assume NC State at Cal and SMU at Stanford will both be on ESPN or ACCN since CW kick time is noon ET/9 am PT)

10/26/24 (noon): GT at VT, UNC at UVA, SMU at Duke (I assume ABC/ESPN picks up FSU at Miami, and that Wake at Stanford and Oregon St at Cal will both kick off later than noon ET/9 am PT).

11/2/24 (noon): Duke at Miami, Pitt at SMU, Stanford at NC State, VT at Syracuse (I assume ABC/ESPN picks up Louisville at Clemson and UNC at FSU)

11/9/24 (noon): Duke at NC State, Miami at GT, Syracuse at BC, UVA at Pitt (I assume ABC/ESPN will pick up Clemson at Virginia Tech - and probably Miami at GT as well).

11/16/24: BC at SMU, Clemson at Pitt, Louisville at Stanford, Syracuse at Cal, Wake at UNC

11/23/24: Citadel at Clemson, Chas. So. at FSU, UConn at Syracuse, UNC at BC, Pitt at Louisville, SMU at UVA, Stanford at Cal, VT at Duke, or Wake at Miami.

11/30/24: UVA at VT, Cal at SMU, Duke at Wake, Miami at Syracuse, NC State at UNC, Pitt at BC

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Most of the CW kickoff times for ACC games will be early (9am PT). This is probably because the CW is also covering most of the Oregon State and Washington State home games now, and those will be on later in the day.

Didn't catch this from May, but the timeslots for the ACC's CW games are listed in this article. Most at noon ET with occasional alterations.https://t.co/rxcJL8C1CH

— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) July 26, 2024

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The ACC games will be on every Saturday, with the first telecast scheduled for Sept. 7 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time.

The Sept. 14 game will be in prime time, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Eastern time. The Sept. 21 game will a late afternoon kickoff at 5 p.m. Eastern.

Games from Oct. 5 to Nov. 9 will be early afternoon kickoffs, starting at noon Eastern time. The last three games of the regular season, beginning on Nov. 16, will kick off at 3 p.m. Eastern.

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Sept 7 & 14 are already selected (not the Cal game). Sept 21 we play on the road at FSU, which probably gets picked by ESPN before the CW has a chance at it. The CW gets something like the 4th pick of ACC games in any given week, after ESPN fills slots on ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2.

All of our October home games (Miami, NC State, Oregon St) are probably out of the running for a 9am PT kickoff, and the week of Nov 9 is already covered with a Friday game at Wake Forest. So that leaves four realistic possibilities for Cal appearing on the CW:

Oct 12 @Pitt
Nov 16 Syracuse
Nov 23 Furd
Nov 30 @SMU

For those in the Bay Area, the CW is now shown on KRON channel 4. Actually one of the better places to get CW broadcasts, since it's a channel that has a wide reach and used to be an NBC affiliate for a long time.

Right, being on CW on those dates means a 12pm local start, so hopefully it will be the SMU game which means 12 Central time/10am PST rather than 12 noon EST/9am PST for Pitt or Cuse.

It could also be that Cal has no games on the CW this season. I don't think there's a requirement that every ACC team has a game on that network.

Anyway, there was a post up from SMU that said their home game against TCU on 9/21 would be on the CW, but it got taken down.

pic.twitter.com/t3YosFyHNx

— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) August 13, 2024

Assuming this turns out to be true, it would eliminate Cal being on the CW on that date. I think most of us assumed the FSU game wasn't going to be a CW game anyway.

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Anyway, there was a post up from SMU that said their home game against TCU on 9/21 would be on the CW, but it got taken down.

pic.twitter.com/t3YosFyHNx

— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) August 13, 2024

Assuming this turns out to be true, it would eliminate Cal being on the CW on that date. I think most of us assumed the FSU game wasn't going to be a CW game anyway.

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Cal at FSU is the 4th week of the season and likely subject to the 12/6 day selection windows. Would guess a good showing @Auburn would change where FSU falls on the selection order.

ColoradoBear said:

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sycasey said:

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Anyway, there was a post up from SMU that said their home game against TCU on 9/21 would be on the CW, but it got taken down.

pic.twitter.com/t3YosFyHNx

— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) August 13, 2024

Assuming this turns out to be true, it would eliminate Cal being on the CW on that date. I think most of us assumed the FSU game wasn't going to be a CW game anyway.

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Cal at FSU is the 4th week of the season and likely subject to the 12/6 day selection windows. Would guess a good showing @Auburn would change where FSU falls on the selection order.

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I'm assuming FSU will be undefeated and ranked around tenth. If Cal plays Auburn tough and loses, I think the game is at 9:00 am pst. If Cal pulls the upset at Auburn I think the game is at 12:30 pst. In either case the game is on ESPN or ESPN2.

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sycasey said:

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Anyway, there was a post up from SMU that said their home game against TCU on 9/21 would be on the CW, but it got taken down.

pic.twitter.com/t3YosFyHNx

— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) August 13, 2024

Assuming this turns out to be true, it would eliminate Cal being on the CW on that date. I think most of us assumed the FSU game wasn't going to be a CW game anyway.

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Cal at FSU is the 4th week of the season and likely subject to the 12/6 day selection windows. Would guess a good showing @Auburn would change where FSU falls on the selection order.

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Yes, though theoretically the SMU game should be subject to the same windows, and it seems like they might know something already.

TCU-SMU on CW confirmed:

https://t.co/wMOkxcWAgZ

— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) August 14, 2024

Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery's new sports streaming platform Venu has been blocked from launching after a federal judge agreed with FuboTV's claim that Venu would “substantially lessen competition and restrain trade.”

“We respectfully disagree with the court’s ruling… pic.twitter.com/spJaqB5KRC

— Variety (@Variety) August 16, 2024