Flo Sports

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I haven't decided if I'm gonna pay or not.  I feel like I want to because it must benefit the college in someway, and  if I don't pay well, it detracts.  Plus, I do pay for Hulu live to watch other football, so I suppose its not insane that I would pay for this, also, I like this better.  Maybe, I've just decided.

Per this deal, the conferences get the money regardless of who subscribes.  Now, I've heard some of the conferences may be distributing money to schools based on subscriptions, rather than equally - so you might want to check with your particular institution to see if they get extra money for your subscription.

The only real benefit a subscriber has is if there are enough that the next agreement increases the payout to the conferences.  If these are popular services, Flo will pay more (of course, that may also increase the subscription cost, so...).

[WUPHF]

The only real benefit a subscriber has is if there are enough that the next agreement increases the payout to the conferences. 

According to Flo Sports, the benefits are...

Your subscription gives you access to:

    Live event streams
    Event replays
    Live scores, results, highlights, and news
    Schedules, standings, rosters, and athlete profiles
    Our full library of award-winning content, including Flo Originals

[Gray Fox]

The only real benefit a subscriber has is if there are enough that the next agreement increases the payout to the conferences. 

According to Flo Sports, the benefits are...

Your subscription gives you access to:

    Live event streams
    Event replays
    Live scores, results, highlights, and news
    Schedules, standings, rosters, and athlete profiles
    Our full library of award-winning content, including Flo Originals

I could get the live streams, but the rest I never figured out.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The Flo app on Roku is way easier to navigate than their website.

[Kuiper]

The only real benefit a subscriber has is if there are enough that the next agreement increases the payout to the conferences. 

According to Flo Sports, the benefits are...

Your subscription gives you access to:

    Live event streams
    Event replays
    Live scores, results, highlights, and news
    Schedules, standings, rosters, and athlete profiles
    Our full library of award-winning content, including Flo Originals

The event replays are handy if you are in a different time zone and can't catch the games live (schools with free streaming used to offer that routinely, at least during the season, but it's much less common than it used to be), but the real benefit is the live streaming. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Flo picked up the rights to Diamond League this year - and it's way more efficient to watch a track meet in replay than live!

[WUPHF]

The event replays are handy if you are in a different time zone and can't catch the games live (schools with free streaming used to offer that routinely, at least during the season, but it's much less common than it used to be), but the real benefit is the live streaming. 

I was surprised to see Flo Sports list the archive as a benefit of the subscription because I believe the agreement with every league is that games will be available free of charge 24 hours after the broadcast.

It is a nice change for UAA fans as only Washington University offered the on demand streams for free, if I remember correctly.  Rochester did, but behind the paywall.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The event replays are handy if you are in a different time zone and can't catch the games live (schools with free streaming used to offer that routinely, at least during the season, but it's much less common than it used to be), but the real benefit is the live streaming. 

I was surprised to see Flo Sports list the archive as a benefit of the subscription because I believe the agreement with every league is that games will be available free of charge 24 hours after the broadcast.

It is a nice change for UAA fans as only Washington University offered the on demand streams for free, if I remember correctly.  Rochester did, but behind the paywall.

We don't know how many conferences negotiated that feature or which conferences do or will continue to maintain their own pages.  The UAA hasn't hosted any broadcasts conference wide, so it may be up to individual schools there to make them available.

[WUPHF]

Thanks Ryan for the clarification, I thought that was universally part of the agreement.  My understanding is that all UAA broadcasts on Flo will be free 24 hours after the game has ended.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Thanks Ryan for the clarification, I thought that was universally part of the agreement.  My understanding is that all UAA broadcasts on Flo will be free 24 hours after the game has ended.

That might be true.  I know early contracts involved allowing the conferences to post free replays on their own sites.  I don't know if Flo will host them for free or not.  That me be something the UAA arranged because they don't have a site set up for it - or maybe it's something Flo is offering now, since it doesn't really cost them much.

[jekelish]

Thanks Ryan for the clarification, I thought that was universally part of the agreement.  My understanding is that all UAA broadcasts on Flo will be free 24 hours after the game has ended.

My understanding is that it is now the policy that the 24-hour thing is, in fact, universal. It's just a matter of whether or not schools actually follow through with it.

[y_jack_lok]

Do I understand this correctly? FloSports is not who will be archiving game broadcasts. That is up to individual schools? If so, how would you access the archived broadcast -- via the school's website?

[jekelish]

Do I understand this correctly? FloSports is not who will be archiving game broadcasts. That is up to individual schools? If so, how would you access the archived broadcast -- via the school's website?

No, it's an easy thing to get confused by, of course. But the old broadcasts will apparently be archived on Flo, but behind the paywall. Schools will have the option to take the old broadcasts and put them on their own free platforms after 24 hours.

[y_jack_lok]

^^^ Got it. Thanks.

[Kuiper]

Do I understand this correctly? FloSports is not who will be archiving game broadcasts. That is up to individual schools? If so, how would you access the archived broadcast -- via the school's website?

No, it's an easy thing to get confused by, of course. But the old broadcasts will apparently be archived on Flo, but behind the paywall. Schools will have the option to take the old broadcasts and put them on their own free platforms after 24 hours.

I just checked and I could watch any SCIAC or SCAC game from 2024 on the Flo site, but there doesn't appear to be a way to access a video on the couple of individual school's sites I checked as far as I can tell.  Colorado College has an "On Demand" part of its "Tiger Vision" video site with previously streamed events, but at least in men's soccer they were only from 2022 and 2023, not from last season when they were part of the Flo deal.