

However, a year of YouTube TV is $780, which is 85% more than the $420 per year for Sling Blue. YouTube TV's superior app and mid-stream navigation help make it my favorite if money were no option. Right now, Sling is still winning with the best pricing for my particular needs.

It's got a great app and interface, though, so I just hope they find a way to get the Turner channels eventually. fuboTV is out without TNT, a personal deal-breaker. Now having tested four of the best cable TV alternatives, I've still got two main contenders and two coulda-been-a-contendas. fuboTV is a contender to replace cable - but not for me It would just be nice to have it packaged in with everything else. That said, PBS is accessible for donors via the Thirteen Passport. So, if NBA basketball is not your tea, but you've got a lot of sports networks that others don't have, and you want all the broadcast networks Sling can't give you? You have a reason to check out fuboTV.Īgain, though, fuboTV takes an L on the Roommates Test, lacking PBS, YES and BBC World News. That includes TUDN (you'll pay more for it on DirecTV Stream), and the globally-focused beIN Sports channels, which are limited to the Sling TV $11 per month Sports Extra add-on, and other specialty sports networks like the Big Ten network and the ACC Network (both also in that Sling add-on). That said, fuboTV has a metric ton of sports channels you don't get in the entry-package elsewhere. The lack of TNT's playoff basketball, though, is still quite concerning when fuboTV is supposed to be "the sports service." Also, I'm sure my Yankees-fan roommates would be curious why I'm paying for a sports-focused streaming service that doesn't even have the YES Network (yes, Yankees fans believe the world revolves around them even if the post-season hasn't). Plus, of course /MSNBC for live news. CNN is absent because, of course, it's a Turner network. It's also got NBC for the decent sitcoms here and there (and the nights I want to give Saturday Night Live another chance it hasn't earned). You never know what those weirdos are going to do next.įuboTV does well with the rest of my favorites, with USA, FX and the Food Network. But, still, it's just a network I like having around. But since that show isn't on year-round (Dynamite is), it's not as huge a deal to not have Cartoon Network. I didn't think to look for Cartoon Network in my testing because Rick and Morty was off that week. Neither of those networks are on fuboTV.Īnd in my research about those channels, I remembered that Cartoon Network is (like TNT and TBS) a Turner Broadcasting System channel. This isn't just about the NBA playoffs (the one time of the year I typically tune into basketball), but more about All Elite Wrestling's Dynamite program, which airs on TNT now and TBS in 2022. But fuboTV doesn't have TNT, and that means it and I have drama. FuboTV has a lot, including the often-necessary broadcast networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC.
