Foxtel sold

[The '47ers]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/foxtel-sold-to-sports-streamer-dazn-in-blockbuster-34bn-deal/news-story/e3f4ff84d4ae24e69974fc1cf3087eff

 

[Eagle 1]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/foxtel-sold-to-sports-streamer-dazn-in-blockbuster-34bn-deal/news-story/e3f4ff84d4ae24e69974fc1cf3087eff

Hope they've got a customer friendly call centre, got a feeling there'll be some wheelin and a dealin on packages come mid 2025.

 

[manlyfan76]

My 3.5 years of free kayo ( via electricity deal) has come to an end.

Can't see myself paying $35- -$45 a month for it.

 

[Eagle 1]

My 3.5 years of free kayo ( via electricity deal) has come to an end.

Can't see myself paying $35- -$45 a month for it.

Will be interesting to see what the pricing on the Sports packages will be.

 

[Uber Eagle 72]

I don’t think they will go up significantly. Foxtel has been slowly taken off the cable network. ( only satellite and internet now.) A lot of cost would have been tied up in maintenance of the cable network..

 

[Dan]

My 3.5 years of free kayo ( via electricity deal) has come to an end.

Can't see myself paying $35- -$45 a month for it.

I usually turn it on for the footy season and off the rest of the year. They start throwing deals at you. For instance I just turned it on for a $1 a month deal for the cricket. Turned it off today and they offered me $20 off per month for 6 months. I have put that deal on hold for another month so that way I will get $15 a month for the footy season which is way more reasonable.

Would be good for them to offer single sport subscriptions. I only use it for the footy mostly and think $10 - $15 per month to only watch the NRL is much more on the right price.

I imagine there will be some better prices like this soon. I wish the NRL would do what the NFL Gamepass did, where it was pretty cheap for streaming of just NFL games at something like $60 USD for the season

 

[Eagle 1]

I don’t think they will go up significantly. Foxtel has been slowly taken off the cable network. ( only satellite and internet now.) A lot of cost would have been tied up in maintenance of the cable network..

If you have Foxtel chances are you are on a different price package to me. With Sports and on the Premium package as we all are now its a $120. But most are on less than this, I'm on $79 and i know people who are on $60 and some even less. I pity the people who are paying the full $120, it's not worth it. It all depends on how good a negotiator you are at asking for a price reduction. Hopefully with the new owner things might change for the better and get back to the old system of getting the package that suits you, not Foxtel.

 

[Uber Eagle 72]

If you have Foxtel chances are you are on a different price package to me. With Sports and on the Premium package as we all are now its a $120. But most are on less than this, I'm on $79 and i know people who are on $60 and some even less. I pity the people who are paying the full $120, it's not worth it. It all depends on how good a negotiator you are at asking for a price reduction. Hopefully with the new owner things might change for the better and get back to the old system of getting the package that suits you, not Foxtel.

I am on $70 for sports plus premium package. It’s on the net not cable or satellite. Sounds like their pricing model is similar to how the airlines do it….

 

[manlyfan76]

I usually turn it on for the footy season and off the rest of the year. They start throwing deals at you. For instance I just turned it on for a $1 a month deal for the cricket. Turned it off today and they offered me $20 off per month for 6 months. I have put that deal on hold for another month so that way I will get $15 a month for the footy season which is way more reasonable.

Would be good for them to offer single sport subscriptions. I only use it for the footy mostly and think $10 - $15 per month to only watch the NRL is much more on the right price.

I imagine there will be some better prices like this soon. I wish the NRL would do what the NFL Gamepass did, where it was pretty cheap for streaming of just NFL games at something like $60 USD for the season

I usually get the MLB app.
Its beyond excellent for quality.
30 teams, 162 game season, home or away commentary or stadium noise.
Home or away radio commentary ( or Spanish) 60 fps cameras. Full game replays at any time.
Multiple devises ( can't Chromecast on all set ups for some reason)
You can also get single team subscription.
And it's usually half price 1/3 into the season.
I watch a lot of games after ( time zones) and they put chapters in so you can skip innings break ads.