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How To Watch The World Series Online

October 24, 2012
By Greg Franzese

We recently ran across this story on NPR that looks at how baseball fans can connect to the World Series online. The post starts by noting that technology is changing what "TV" is:

While most American homes still have a television in the den, how we watch, and what we watch, is changing. Computers, tablets, smartphones, DVRs and video game consoles have redefined what television is.
 
Viewers have officially become a multiscreen culture. And that means the TV industry is changing, as well.
We couldn't have said it any better ourselves. With more content and connected devices in the marketplace, people have more options than ever to log on and tune in to their favorite programs: even sports. We touched on this trend earlier in our Sports Without the Cord post. Today, there are a number of ways to keep up with your favorite team, from any location and any screen.
 
For example, NPR's Don Gagne is a die-hard Tigers fan, and uses the MLB app to keep up with his team while travelling for work. 
 
But watching the World Series online is not all sunshine and rainbows. FOX has apparently blacked-out live streaming online. What to do? CNET has a handy guide for sports fans looking to stream the World Series online.
If you've sprung for a subscription from MLB At Bat, you're already covered. Those of us on the cheap can get our World Series broadcast on our Android phones for free with the ESPN Radio Android app. ESPN Radio has all the MLB playoff radio rights and thankfully has a progressive policy on streaming it to mobile phones (there's an iPhone app as well, of course).
The good(ish) news is that Fox is going to unblock live streaming of the World Series in 2014. But for the time being (and especially in the regular season) there are a number of ways to root, root, root for the home team online.
 
NPR has compiled this handy chart of the different options baseball fans have to catch the game.
 
 
Posted in Online Video News
Tags sports, online video, live streaming
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