SIAP…. How to watch Pels on direct TV this year?

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With the new TV deal or whatever, will this be possible?

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I know - i used to DVR the games and watch them when my schedule allows. I like to rewind and pause.

Grey TV is showing it on an aerial sub feed. If Pels put it in the deal that they have to make the feed available for free to cable/sat providers, i could see DTV picking it up. But i doubt that happened.

Its unlikely DTV will pay extra to rebroadcast the feed this year. If Pels become contenders, i could see future interest perhaps.

Last year during the 10 game test, most games were on a sister station called Bounce rather than Fox8. Directv only carries the national feed of Bounce so you couldn’t get the game because it was only on the local Bounce feed.

However, there are still a lot of unknowns. It sounds like rather than Bounce this will be getting its own channel like an OTA Regional Sports Network. So maybe that can get thrown in with the other Gray Media channels and not have the national feed issue Bounce had. Antenna or the expected but unannounced $15 a month streaming plan are your likely answers, but we just don’t know yet.

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Aerial sub feed?

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I'm likely saying this wrong bc I've been using pay TV since the 80s but it's my understanding that OTA tv is broadcast in high frequency radio waves. My last antenna tv back in the day had VHF and UHF dials which you then fine tuned to make the picture sharper.

When TV stations made the conversion to digital 15-20 years ago, they started sending multiple broadcasts through one channel. That's why you now have, for example, station 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and so on. The .1 being the network feed and the sub feeds being the alternate broadcasts showing loops of old reruns or news. It costs a regional network very little to operate these sub feeds so commercial opportunities are inexpensive for local businesses.

If Grey creates a regional sports network, it will most likely be on one of their sub feeds as acquiring an additional bandwidth channel from the FCC would be very expensive.