Saturday, February 18, 2012

A new way to watch your Pittsburgh Power!

There's a new way to watch arena football this season if you're on the road

The AFL and UStream announced a partnership that will provide online streaming coverage of AFL Football for the next two years.  Ustream will replace Nifty TV which provided coverage last year.

The biggest upgrades you'll notice immediately is the ability to download the Ustream app to your Android or iOS smartphone.  You'll be able to watch AFL football anywhere you can get a data signal, which is pretty amazing. 

Along with that, UStream also provides interactive chat rooms to all watchers so you can chat with your fellow fans and fans of the other team during the game.  It really adds a lot of atmosphere to the broadcast and makes it fun to talk a little smack to the other team's fans. 

In terms of the Power, there's now a few ways to watch or listen to the game.  TribLive Radio will provide radio broadcasts of all Power games and will likely serve as the audio feed for all UStream games.  You will also have HD television coverage for a lot of the games provided by Pittsburgh's CW station. 

Plus of course, you can also go to the home games and experience the madness yourself.  It's going to be a great season for the Power.

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