DTV NFL Sunday Ticket compared to the Uverse 450sports package

[donjohn1370]

I currently have the DTV NFL Sunday ticket and also the DTV College Football package but I am thinking about switching to att Uverse. will the att Uverse 450sports package give me the ability to watch any NFL game I want just like DTV does? as well as any college football team's game?

[texasguy37 ACE - Expert]

No, sorry it will not.  The NFL Sunday Ticket is an exclusive of Directv.  No other TV provider can offer that package.  U-verse does offer the new NFL Red Zone Channel which switches live between the games being played when a team is in the red zone.

U-verse does offer the ESPN GamePlan package which allows you to watch out of market games.  Is this the same college football package that you have with Directv?

[donjohn1370]

yes I have DTV ESPN game plan and was told that with att Uverse 450 sports package I would have the ability to watch all the Fox sports channels across the nation and get games from other regions.

[texasguy37 ACE - Expert]

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donjohn1370 wrote:

yes I have DTV ESPN game plan and was told that with att Uverse 450 sports package I would have the ability to watch all the Fox sports channels across the nation and get games from other regions.

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That is true.  Typically the only college games that would be blacked out on the out of market regional sports networks would be those that are include in the ESPN GamePlan package.  Thus, you would not be able to watch any games that are selected for the ESPN GamePlan package unless you also subscribed to that package.

[ElPresidente_1]

Remember there's a distinction between having Fox Sports Net channels and FOX affiliates. Your local FOX affiliate shows the NFL, while cities that also have Fox Sports Net channels get other sports programs. The UVerse Sports package gives you the Fox Sports Net channels, not FOX affiliates. It gets you no extra NFL games. 

[kryptonite]

If you get U-Verse internet, it includes access to ESPN3.com.  This includes college football, college basketball, and other programming from ESPN.  If a game is on ABC, it may or may not be available on ESPN3.com, but it could still be on your TV, either on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, or one of the alternate sports channels

AT&T does NOT have NFL Sunday Ticket.  This is EXCLUSIVE to DirecTV.  It will most likely be this way for a very long time.  They do not have any other "out of market" sports packages like MLB Extra Innings, or NHL Center Ice.  If you get the Sports Pack (included with the U-450, or stand alone for $10 per month.

If you get the U-450, that also includes a ton of HD channels.  For $5 extra per month, you can get the "HD Premium Pack."  This includes NFL RedZone, which you probably get on DirecTV.  It is about seven hours of commercial-free HD NFL action every Sunday.  They flip around to the "best games with the best action."  It is comparable to watching golf on a channel like CBS or ESPN.

MLB Extra Innings comes to a provider when they sign up for MLB Network.  A provider must agree to carry both.  If they do not agree to carry both, then they get zero.