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How To Watch Milwaukee Bucks Games Without Cable in 2023

Updated on 2024-04-13 By Dennis Restauro

Milwaukee Bucks

This guide will explain how to watch every Bucks game this season. You can watch Bucks games whether you live in the Milwaukee Bucks TV market or not, and you don’t need cable. I’ll also cover how to watch upcoming Bucks games and where they are airing. This guide also includes a Bucks TV schedule for upcoming games that refreshes daily.

Table of Contents
  • Watch Every Bucks Game This Season
    • Watching Bucks Games In-Market
    • Watching Bucks Games Outside of Their TV Market
  • Other Options
    • Fubo TV
    • Bally Sports+

Watch Every Bucks Game This Season

How you watch the Bucks throughout the 2023-24 season will depend on whether you live inside or outside the Bucks TV market.

Watching Bucks Games In-Market

The Milwaukee Bucks TV Market consists of Wisconsin, extreme eastern Minnesota, the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northwestern Illinois, and Iowa throughout Wisconsin, extreme east Minnesota, the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northwest Illinois, and Iowa.

If you live inside the Bucks TV market, you can stream most Bucks games live through Bally Sports Wisconsin. However, The Bucks have roughly ten games exclusive to TNT and ABC this season, with ESPN broadcasting the Bucks Christmas Day game this year. The only streaming service that carries Bally Sports Wisconsin, TNT, ABC, and ESPN is DIRECTV STREAM’s Choice Plan.

DIRECTV STREAM provides a 5-day free trial, and you can watch the Bucks live through the DIRECTV STREAM app on streaming devices like Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, and more. You won’t be charged if you cancel before the free trial ends. Otherwise, The DIRECTV STREAM Choice plan is $108.99 per month with $25 off your first two months. See my review of DIRECTV For more details on the service.

Watching Bucks Games Outside of Their TV Market

If you live outside the Milwaukee Bucks TV market, you will need NBA League Pass. You can watch around 70 Bucks games this year through NBA League Pass. NBA League Pass The rest will be broadcast nationally on ESPN, ABC, or TNT. For those networks, you could use DIRECTV STREAM, Hulu Live TV, or YouTube TV. All three carry ESPN, ABC, And TNT.

Sling TV could be an option for some to watch Bucks Games on ESPN and TNT. Sling Orange provides ESPN and TNT. But, if you subscribe to both the Blue and Orange package at $55 per month, you get ABC if you live in the broadcast range of the following stations: WABC-TV in New York, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, WLS-TV in Chicago, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, KGO-TV in San Francisco, KTRK-TV in Houston, WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham and KFSN-TV in Fresno. Please note that Sling TV charges an extra $5 per month broadcast fee if you live in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, or San Francisco.

For more information on each service, check out my guide for each below

  • DIRECTV STREAM Review
  • Youtube TV Review
  • Hulu + Live TV Review
  • Sling TV Review

More on NBA League Pass

NBA League Pass will show every Bucks game that isn’t exclusively airing nationally on ESPN or TNT. NBA League Pass also provides access to NBA TV, so you are covered when they broadcast the occasional Bucks game. NBA League Pass provides three ways to subscribe:

  • Team Pass – Watch live, out-of-market games for the Milwaukee Bucks for $13.99 per month or $89.99 per year.
  • League Pass – Watch live, out-of-market games for the Milwaukee Bucks and every other team for $14.99 per month or $99.99 per year.
  • Premium League Pass – Watch live, out-of-market games for every team for $22.99 per month or $149.99 per year. (commercial-free)

Other Options

There are a couple of other possible options to watch some Bucks games, but they won’t have all their games due to missing some channels for nationally broadcast games.

Fubo TV

fuboTV carries Bally Sports Wisconsin, but they don’t have TNT. The service advertises a price of $74.99 per month. However, fuboTV subscribers in this area will be subject to a mandatory regional sports fee between $10.99 and $13.99 per month, depending on how many RSNs are in your area. While that could be a little cheaper, I don’t think it’s worth it with the Bucks playing 3-4 games on TNT this year.

Bally Sports+

Bally Sports Plus

Bally Sports has a direct-to-customer streaming service called Bally Sports Plus. Bally Sports+ carries Milwaukee Bucks games airing on Bally Sports. Bally Sports+ is currently available on iOS and Android mobile smart devices, along with tvOS (Apple TV), Android TV, and Amazon Fire TV streaming devices and smart TVs. However, this service is only for Bally Sports Plus. You will miss any Bucks games that are part of an exclusive national broadcast on ESPN or TNT.

You can subscribe to Bally Sports+ at BallySportsPlus.com for $189.99 annually or $19.99 each month and live stream games airing on Bally Sports Wisconsin or Bally Sports Wisconsin Extra through the Bally Sports app. To subscribe, you must live in the Bally Sports Wisconsin TV market. You are most likely outside the intended TV market if you do not see Bally Sports+ available on BallySportsPlus.com or within the Bally Sports app. You won’t have access to all the channels you get with DIRECTV STREAM, but it’s a cheaper way to watch Bally Sports Wisconsin. See our article, Is Bally Sports Worth the Price for more details.

About The Author

Dennis Restauro

Dennis started Grounded Reason in 2014 to share his expertise in streaming devices, streaming services, local networking, and cutting the cord on cable TV. His expertise has been leveraged by The Washington Post, Forbes, Kiplinger, The Fiscal Times, podcasts, and other media. Dennis has spent over 25 years working in technology for the public and the private sector as a systems administrator and enterprise systems architect. Dennis is a graduate of Towson University with a degree in Computer Science. See Dennis on LinkedIn.

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