FAST Channels added to DIRECTV Stream/Internet

[jamieh1]

DIRECTV Stream/Internet added Ch 4105 SportsGrid

 

[KyL416]

There might be more FAST channels coming to Stream/Internet in the near future

VSiN is testing on channel 616, FUEL TV is testing on channel 4110, FOX SOUL is testing on channel 4401

 

[ranger99]

Odd choice of channel numbers. Is this the start of a FAST tier on Stream?

 

[dishrich]

It's also coming to DirecTV satellite later this year:

https://www.nexttv.com/news/sportsgrid-scores-pay-tv-distribution-on-directv-stream

 

[SamCdbs]

IMHO,

- Another FAST channel on DirecTV. I have the internet. Thanks. Not as bad as YTTV with its plethora of fake channels, but getting there.

- I really do not like Sports Grid. It was originally, before the Supreme Court's ruling on sports gambling, a radio network that just read scores over and over (hey, there are a lot of AM stations out there, they have to play something). They have decided to get into the sports gambling space. Problem is, no one there really is a gambling expert. It is not what they want to be doing.

- Contrast to VSIN, started by the Las Vegas casinos and using Brent Mussberger as its front man, which was founded to be a gambling channel and employs people who gamble and work in the gambling industry.

- The other player in the slot are the part time shows on Stadium/Bally's, which try to make gambling cool for the under 30 crowd. Not my scene.

- And then there is ESPN. As ESPN slides more and more towards the cliff of bankruptcy, it sold the rights to ESPN Bets for $1.5B (it wanted $4B, no takers) to a minor gambling player Penn Gaming. What they do to ESPN (particularly ESPNews) will be interesting, but I have faith that ESPN will be tone deaf to the gambling community, as it has been to most mainstream people for years.

 

[jamieh1]

Fox Soul Ch 4401 added to Directv Stream.

 

[scotte0702]

Interesting they have started using the 4000 channel range.

 

[jamieh1]

Prob gonna be the range for the FAST channels

 

[KyL416]

Yep, two more went up in test today:
4358 Tastemade Travel
4359 Tastemade Home

 

[jamieh1]

Would love to see Court TV added as well.

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Court TV is more of a diginet than a FAST channel, so unless Scripps has a national feed of it available for distribution, it’s unlikely to be added.

 

[KyL416]

Court TV is more of a diginet than a FAST channel, so unless Scripps has a national feed of it available for distribution, it’s unlikely to be added.

Most of Scripps networks, including CourtTV, have national FAST feeds, except for Laff, Bounce, Grit and Defy.

For Laff, Bounce and Grit they have made for streaming channels called Laff More, Bounce XL, and Grit Xtra that just run marathons of alternate shows they have the streaming rights to and occasionally simulcast their main network, while Defy sources most of its programs from AETN's library who has their own set of FAST channels.

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Would that mean Grit, Bounce, will occasionally show alternate programming on stream/internet when they are showing something that they don’t have streaming rights to and thus can only show it on satellite?

 

[KyL416]

Nope, this is different than that. For FAST channels they need to have the free ad-supported streaming rights to those shows and movies, but some studios want to keep those rights for their own in house FAST channels.

i.e. Laff More and Grit Xtra have a lot of public domain as filler, while Bounce XL fills their schedule with marathons of their past originals whenever Bounce is showing a movie.

 

[jamieh1]

Another good one is Live Now from Fox.

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

It’s managed by Fox TV Stations, not Fox News Media, so it might be possibility considering they renewed their Fox sports and stations contract several months ago.

 

[jamieh1]

Fuel tv added today.

 

[PrinceLH]

Antenna TV anyone?

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Antenna TV and Rewind have yet to sign any national carriage deals, their local cable distribution is tied to the owner of their subchannel. Even if they did, DIRECTV's in a massive dispute and lawsuit with their owner.

 

[KyL416]

Tastemade Home and Tastemade Travel are now available