NFL

It sounds like YT ST is for games that are not in your local area?

Local channels like your local FOX, CBS, and NBC affiliates are not included in NFL Sunday Ticket, nor are national channels like ESPN. However, these are available with the YouTube TV Base Plan.

So for SNF, MNF i’d still need tv access and well I’m so rural that I can’t pick up OTA reliably. This is where I would need TV services and Hulu makes the most sense for my home.

others in my house aren’t the type to figure out how to check the high seas for streams.

I can’t get ota without a lot of effort. Rural, mountains.

Yeah, in the past I paid for Paramount+ for 2 NFL games a week (plus Star Trek Lower Decks would air at the same time). It was honestly a pretty good deal. But now I get that with Walmart+. So I get all the weekly games either OTA or with subscriptions I already have and I'm okay with missing out on the Netflix game.

The worst part is that my team isn't close to where I live. So I don't get them very often. But that has nothing to do with the piecemeal service. I would have to either get Sunday Ticket or go to a sports bar to see them. If I rooted for a local-ish team, I'd get to see them every week.

OTA works until the broadcasters move to the new broadcast standard (ATSC 3.0) and encrypt their streams. It locks out most digital boxes. In my area only NBC hasn't added DRM to their broadcast.

Only the digital boxes with a direct HDMI connection to a TV are allowed decryption keys at this point. This means if you want to watch on multiple TVs, you need an expensive box and antenna for each TV.

It's a shitty situation and I'm sailing this seas this year for my fucking local channels.