Fox Sports Go app for Apple TV lets viewers watch four games simultaneously

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Fox on Friday released a tvOS version of Fox Sports GO, with a unique interface allowing Apple TV owners to watch up to four games simultaneously — if they already have authenticated access to the associated channels.

Users can stream Fox Sports 1 and 2, Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Deportes, and Fox College Sports, as well as some other content depending on a person's location and cable/satellite subscriptions. Many leagues are covered, including MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, UEFA, and UFC, though regional and device restrictions may apply.

Authentication options are fairly wide, including not just conventional TV providers like Cox or Time Warner Cable, but some internet-only services like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue.

Fox Sports GO is a free download from the tvOS App Store. The iOS version of the app, by contrast, only supports watching one game at a time, even on iPads.

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18 Comments

mike1 3432 comments · 10 Years

About 8 years ago

All ATVs or just the latest?
Just reread the post. Since it's a download, I doubt it will work with the channel in the ATV3.

MacPro 19838 comments · 18 Years

About 8 years ago

mike1 said:

All ATVs or just the latest?

ATV s that run tvOS given it's a tvOS app. Which as far as I can recall is only the latest one.

rwes 200 comments · 11 Years

About 8 years ago

mike1 said:

All ATVs or just the latest?

tvOS App Store; 4th gen only.

I made the jump to Sling and it's been great. With tvOS, much better than when I tried last November. I still like to authenticate the individual providers apps for access to additional content and just emailed Sling support a few day back regarding authentication (currently, seemed like few/none allowed for me to pick Sling).

App authentication (according to Sling support as of 8/24/2016) Currently limited to: FOX NOW, FXNOW, WatchESPN. Now with FS, even better.

aeronprometheus 151 comments · 18 Years

About 8 years ago

"Watchin' a little TV for a change?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwPFQXQHNk

bbdroid 13 comments · 9 Years

About 8 years ago

Fantastic!

Finally multiple channel viewing returns.

It's always puzzled me how maybe 10-15 years ago, features like Picture-in-Picture and Splitscreen were common on TVs and DVRs, yet now when we've got more technology than ever before and absolutely enormous screens, the features are almost non-existent.

We should be heading towards the Back to the Future idea, yet we've been going backwards recently.

Let's hope software innovations like this encourage hardware manufacturers to realise once again that sometimes we do want to watch more than one thing at once.