Channel counts are the wrong opening question in this country. American broadcast television is cut into local markets, so the late news you watch at 10pm belongs to a station licensed to your city, not to a national feed wearing the same logo. Nielsen calls those slices Designated Market Areas. There are a couple of hundred of them, Phoenix is not Boston, and a panel can carry hundreds of US rows while missing the one station you actually turn on.
So this page is built around the two American headaches: which market you live in, and what sports rights do inside it. MyTiviFlix sells access to a commercial panel, not a broadcast license.
A $14 month on one screen, $69 for twelve months with 30 extra days on top, a 24-hour test before any of that, and a 7-day refund window on the year plan. Level Up wanted $97.95 for its year and Liberty $59.99 for its own on the pages we saved in August 2026.
None of those stickers settles whether your affiliate shows up.
Your market, not the country
Every reseller on Telegram has a folder called USA. That folder is not the test.
The test is whether the stations licensed to your Designated Market Area appear as rows that play, with a guide showing tonight rather than last Tuesday, at the hour you actually sit down. Nielsen assigns counties to markets, which is why a house forty minutes outside a big city often belongs to a smaller market than the residents assume, and why “all US locals included” is a sentence rather than an inventory.
Say the city and the call sign in chat before you pay anything. If nobody can find your station, that is missing inventory, and no amount of restarting the stick will conjure it.
Small markets are where panels go thin first, because the affiliate serving 200,000 households is worth less to whoever is redistributing it than the one serving four million.
Late local news is a quieter load test than football, which is how people fool themselves. A network morning show can look perfect while the affiliate you care about falls apart after dark.
Open your station, leave it running for a while, and watch the lower third. Text is where a sick ingest shows itself first.
Regional sports is where the promises break
Blackouts are the oldest argument in American sport, and they exist because rights are sold by territory. Teams have spent the last several years moving between regional carriers, league packages, and their own direct apps, and the map gets redrawn faster than any reseller graphic.
Anyone who guarantees every regional feed in every zip code is describing a wish.
Ask for the club by name, on a named night. “Do you have sports?” produces a yes that means nothing.
If the answer comes back thin, believe it, and watch that channel yourself before the money moves rather than after. The $14 month exists precisely so one club’s carriage mess does not trap you in a year.
We carry a sports pack. We do not stamp a map of the United States on it.
Out-of-market league packages and the regional channel you grew up with are two separate products, and we will not collapse them into a single promise to close a sale.
1pm Eastern is a capacity question
A Sunday football window is not a content category. It is a traffic spike, and it punches ingest, delivery, and your own Wi-Fi in the same second.
Panels that looked crystal during a Tuesday afternoon demo die in the first commercial break for exactly that reason. A test that lands on a quiet weekday proves you can log in.
National basketball nights, bracket weekends in March, and baseball extras behave the same way: many concurrent homes, several copies of one game at different resolutions, and everyone messaging support at the same minute. We size those windows differently from daytime news on purpose.
If the only hour you can free up is 10am Wednesday, say so, and buy the month instead of pretending a dead afternoon told you something.
When two rows carry the same event, a resolution label is worth less than stability. Try both and keep whichever survives a full quarter.
What the pipe has to carry
The FCC Broadband Speed Guide puts HD video streaming at 5 to 8 Mbps and Ultra HD 4K at 25 Mbps. Those are per-stream figures, so a 4K game in the den plus anything else moving in the house is additive.
The 10 Mbps floor that shops like to print covers HD and not much else.
Measure in the room where you watch, at the hour you watch. A laptop sitting six feet from the router is describing a different network from the one your television is on.
A large share of the angry Sunday messages we receive turn out to be a wireless problem hiding behind a 65-inch panel.
The cable bill, honestly
Liberty’s public page contrasted a roughly $83 monthly US cable stack against its own $59.99 year. That arithmetic is why this search exists.
Your own bill may be lower right now and then jump when the promo dies. Our year on one screen is $69 plus 30 extra days, which works out near $5.75 a month if you stay the whole term.
Two screens is a different SKU, because a bedroom TV is a second picture rather than a courtesy. Racing the market down to $9 is how a Telegram desk goes quiet in January.
Level Up charges more and hands back a 60-day refund window; we charge less and publish 7 days on the year. Pick whichever trade you prefer, but do not assemble one imaginary invoice out of three shops’ slogans.
Ask these five things before the year plan
Seven days is not a long rope, so the year is the wrong first purchase if you have never seen your own market on the panel. Put these in the first message instead of discovering them in week three.
The 24-hour test runs on one connection. Spend it on the worst hour you care about, not the easiest one.
If two TVs will be live at the same time, pay for two connections before the test rather than discovering the slot error at kickoff. Pricing is public, nothing auto-renews, and when the days run out you order again or you walk.
- Name your city and the call sign of the station you watch at 10pm.
- Name the club whose regional channel you would miss, and the night it plays.
- Say how many pictures the house needs at once on a Sunday.
- Say which device the TV actually uses, down to the model year.
- Ask what happens when a row disappears mid-season, and who you message.
Questions people ask before they pay
Nielsen groups counties into markets, and your county decides it rather than your mailing address feeling urban. Tell chat the county and the station you watch. That is faster than arguing about the city name.