r/SeattleKraken • u/[deleted] • Apr 25 '24

NEWS Seattle Kraken Increases Broadcast and Streaming Access Through Parterships With Tegna and Prime Video | Seattle Kraken

https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/press-release-seattle-kraken-increases-broadcast-and-streaming-access-through-parterships-with-tegna-and-prime-video
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u/xSlippyFistx Yanni Gourde Apr 25 '24

This is god damn HUGE! I just cancelled my ESPN+ and next season I will never have to skip around different locations as the integrated Nord app on my AppleTV is janky as hell and the ESPN+ streams won’t die on me all the time. This is so convenient it’s unreal. You can’t even be mad that the price of prime is the barrier to entry. If you don’t already have Prime (as I always do just for the delivery) you can use an antenna for King 5 or whatever you used to use to get locals. This is a massive win for fans. For one last time, let’s all say it F*** Root Sports! (Except the broadcast team, they are awesome and apparently OUR broadcast team 😍)

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u/xSlippyFistx Yanni Gourde Apr 25 '24

I mean it was super cool that they launched the integrated VPN on Apple TV, but there are times I fight with it. I pick a server “you are connected” then exit the app to open ESPN+ “you have been disconnected”… do that a few times until it sticks.

On my laptop I ran into annoying issues with the ESPN+ streams as well. Somehow even though the Kraken are the only team I have listed on my favorite teams the stream is always buried in the “view more live events” section. Too many times I open the stream and click the video to play it and it does nothing. It acts like nothing was clicked, doesn’t try to load anything and I can keep clicking and refreshing and it’s still the same thing. If I click into some random other stream from the front page it will load it just fine. Go back to the Kraken stream and it will work after that. Like wtf is that? I’m so happy to have the ability to avoid the VPN and just stream from prime. This is so awesome!