How to Watch the Brewers On Television & Streaming In 2024

So still a lot up in the air.  I used Bally last year then paused my subscription.  They emailed me about starting up again but I'm waiting to see what happens with Amazon where I'm a Prime member.

So, I'm not sure if I will be able to watch many preseason games but I sure hope they have this figured out before the regular season kicks off.

For anyone with T-Mobile, they'll be offering free MLB.tv again this year as well. Always has been a solid perk, and I've taken advantage of that as an out-of-state fan. 

I can only assume that this will eventually end up costing people that want to watch all the games more than it does now. Isn't that how it works?

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44 minutes ago, eddiemathews said:

I can only assume that this will eventually end up costing people that want to watch all the games more than it does now. Isn't that how it works?

If it moves to Amazon? Probably depends on the person and what they already have. Amazon hasn't charged more for Thursday night football (for example), so I'm guessing at least to start it will be more of a marketing add-on to get people to subscribe to Prime. So if you already have a subscription, I'd bet that it would be available for no additional fee. 

Down the road, who knows. Apple TV has an extra subscription fee for MLS, so there's also precedent for streaming services to add surcharges for this kind of thing. But I think Amazon likely makes much of their money on Prime through the data tracking and being able to use data to have better targeting to promote their ad services so the goal in the short term is to continue maximizing that. 

All conjecture of course.

5 hours ago, NoahJ said:

If it moves to Amazon? Probably depends on the person and what they already have. Amazon hasn't charged more for Thursday night football (for example), so I'm guessing at least to start it will be more of a marketing add-on to get people to subscribe to Prime. So if you already have a subscription, I'd bet that it would be available for no additional fee. 

Down the road, who knows. Apple TV has an extra subscription fee for MLS, so there's also precedent for streaming services to add surcharges for this kind of thing. But I think Amazon likely makes much of their money on Prime through the data tracking and being able to use data to have better targeting to promote their ad services so the goal in the short term is to continue maximizing that. 

All conjecture of course.

It really might depend on whether you end up adding a service or dumping a different one and adding Amazon.  We recently dumped Spectrum and will pick up Fubu cause they have Bally -- there is a bit of savings there.  If it goes to Amazon, then I could see dumping Fubu and just doing NetFlix and Amazon Prime -- in that case we would save a lot of money.  

The good is that you can pick your watching options based on specifically what you want.  The big question I have is whether this diminishes the ability to attract new fans or engage the casual fan.  Boxing went totally towards pay per view and dropped out of the public conversation and ends up being replaced by MMA.  Is the move away from broadcast tv going to further marginalize baseball?  Considering that the fan base skews towards older white guys, this could be a problem for MLB.