Minnesota Wild fans in bars and restaurants across the team’s local broadcast territory are about to get another way to catch games on a big screen.
The Wild announced Wednesday a new distribution partnership with the NHL, FuboTV and Integrated Sports Media that will make Wild+ available to bars and restaurants throughout the local broadcast territory. Businesses that want a subscription can reach Integrated Sports Media at 1-866-396-8283 or Info@ISMSports.com.
For fans at home, Wild+ is also available through Amazon Prime Video. The subscription costs $19.99 per month or $99.99 for the season.
Not every game will be in the same place. Select Wild games will air on KSTP, KSTC 45 and ESPN, while five games are set for national broadcast on TNT.
That creates a problem for anyone relying on FuboTV, since the service does not carry TNT. That means it won’t have five Wild games on the schedule: January 28 against the Seattle Kraken, February 11 against the Carolina Hurricanes, February 28 against the New Jersey Devils, March 14 against the Buffalo Sabres and March 17 against the Colorado Avalanche.
The latest setup also underscores the mess sports bars and fans are dealing with in the streaming era. With so many packages and platforms in play, keeping track of where a game is showing has become its own challenge. For fans following the Twins, Wild, Vikings, Timberwolves, Lynx, Frost and United, that can mean juggling nearly half a dozen subscriptions just to keep up with all the action.
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