DirecTV fumbles NFL Sunday Ticket... again
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#63S78)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket stream has gone down for the second week in a row. Football fans across Twitter complained that they were unable to log in or received an error message when trying to load the stream.
Former Deadspin reporter Timothy Burke said on Twitter the service started having issues at about 2PM ET, and all streams when dark after that. DirecTV acknowledged the issue in a tweet, and later shared an update at around 4PM ET saying that the games went back online, but that it would continue to monitor" the streams.
It looks like subscribers continued to have problems after this. Many users said the Sunday Ticket app blacked out certain games even though they weren't available locally.
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