SportsWatch
A standalone app that solves the single hardest part of picking a live-TV streamer — making sure your regional sports network and out-of-market team are actually included — and alerts you the moment your RSN moves between providers.
US sports fans who can't lose access to their local team's broadcasts
- Enter your zip and team, get an instant pass/fail on each live-TV service
- Push alert when Bally, YES, NESN, or your RSN signs or leaves a streamer
- Game-day 'where to watch tonight' lookup with deep links into the right app
- Tracker for league-specific add-ons like MLB.TV, NBA League Pass, and Sunday Ticket
The Rolling Stone piece explicitly calls out that YouTube TV's missing RSNs are the deciding factor for many sports households — this is the most painful decision in the whole category.
Sustained interest shown by multiple dedicated sports-streaming comparison destinations (TheStreamable, WhereIsTheGame, CordCuttersNews) and the page explicitly documents users 'turning on Fubo for MLB, canceling after the World Series, switching to YouTube TV for NFL' — a real multi-service pain point.Best Streaming Services for Sports (2026 Comparison) | Where is the Game ↗Live sports streaming: Discover the best platform for every sport — The Streamable ↗
The zip-code-to-RSN lookup problem is already addressed by web destinations (whereisthegame.com, thestreamable.com, tvanswerman.com) but no dedicated mobile-first app with push notifications when an RSN deal changes between providers appears to exist — the alerting layer is genuinely novel but the lookup layer is crowded.Best Streaming Services for Sports (2026 Comparison) | Where is the Game ↗Regional Sports Network (RSN) Guide 2026 - Channels & Coverage ↗
Affiliates are the obvious revenue stream — WhereIsTheGame already wires 'Subscription Required' and 'Get Deal' CTAs to carriers at $40–$108.99/mo; direct consumer willingness-to-pay for an alerting app is unproven and the per-referral economics would be thin without scale.Best Streaming Services for Sports (2026 Comparison) | Where is the Game ↗
RSN fragmentation is structural — Bally Sports just rebranded to FanDuel, and Fubo publicly lost NBC and multiple RSNs ahead of a holiday week, proving these rights shift regularly and unpredictably, so the alert use case persists.Fubo Loses NBC, USA, and RSNs Ahead of Busy Holiday Week ↗Which Regional Sports Networks Does YouTube TV Carry? Here's the Complete List ↗
Doable but non-trivial: requires maintaining a live channel-lineup database across 5+ streamers (YouTube TV, Fubo, Sling, Hulu Live, DIRECTV Stream), a zip-code-to-RSN mapping, and push-notification infrastructure — ongoing data maintenance is the real cost.Which Regional Sports Networks Does YouTube TV Carry? Here's the Complete List ↗