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TECHNOLOGY Tuesday 14 March 2017

Shhh! How to stream March Madness when the boss isn’t around

BY ANICK JESDANUN If your office isn’t doing
AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER a March Madness pool,
NEW YORK (AP) -- The 67- there are plenty of options
game March Madness online. You can set up your
basketball tournament be- own challenge group with
gins Tuesday, with many friends, family or co-work-
games taking place dur- ers, or you can join an ex-
ing the day when you’re, isting public group. Yahoo,
ahem, supposed to be for instance, has groups
working. organized around specific
Fortunately for you - but schools. ESPN is offering
not your bosses - all NCAA prizes , including a trip to
Tournament games will be Hawaii.
available online. Many of The NCAA’s official brack-
the early round games, et challenge promises to
though, will require a pass- integrate links to live video
word through your cable streams from the tourna-
or satellite TV subscription. ment. There’s also an op-
The television networks no tion to award bonus points
longer offer a stand-alone for correctly picking upsets.
subscription you can buy THERE’S MORE
without cable. Westwood One’s radio
HAPPY STREAMING coverage of all games will
The best places to be available through the
watch: http://www.ncaa. March Madness app on
com/marchmadnessor the phones and tablets and
NCAA March Madness Live In this Tuesday, March 7, 2017, file photo, Mount St. Mary’s forward Will Miller, center, celebrates the tournament’s web-
app. All the games will be with teammates after beating St. Francis (Pa.) 71-61 in the NCAA college basketball Northeast site on PCs - no password
there, regardless of where Conference Tournament championship, in Emmitsburg, Md. Associated Press needed. No streaming TV
they are televised. devices. This year, live au-
CBS is televising 24 games, dio is also available on Am-
including the national the March Madness web- for $25 a month, DirecTV once. This means you can azon Alexa speakers, such
championship and the site will have a “boss but- Now at $35 or PlayStation keep up with games being as the Echo. Just ask with a
Final Four. These games ton” on the upper right cor- Vue for $30 or $40, de- televised simultaneously on voice command.
won’t require a cable or ner. One click replaces the pending on the market. All different channels, or have On desktops and laptops,
satellite password through game with a fake screen- three offer weeklong trials a talk show taking up one a shot-chart feature will
the app or website, but shot of a note-taking or as well. For Sling TV, get the of the three streams. You let you see where players
they are viewable only on PowerPoint-like app. “Orange” package with choose which stream gets made shots during a game,
phones, tablets and com- NO PASSWORD? the “Comedy Plus Extra” the audio. If you’re watch- updated in real time. It’s an
puters - not streaming de- Consider subscribing to an add-on, or sign up for the ing Vue on something oth- optional graphical overlay
vices such as Apple TV, online television package. “Blue” option. Same price er than the PlayStation 4, over the live video stream,
Roku or Fire TV. If you want just the CBS either way. it’s just one game at a time. so you won’t miss the ac-
You’ll need a password games and don’t have Sony’s PlayStation Vue is The March Madness app tion.
for the remaining games, an antenna, you can get the only service to offer on Apple TV offers two On Apple TV, March Mad-
which are split among the CBS All Access starting at both Turner and CBS. CBS games simultaneously, one ness fans will get a special
Turner-owned cable chan- $6 a month. This service is available only in selected with audio. You can have navigation tool resem-
nels - TBS, TNT and truTV. is required to watch CBS markets, though. While the multiple browsers open on bling the traditional NCAA
There’s a three-hour grace games on a streaming TV availability of CBS stations is some devices, or you can bracket. Just click on the
period on most devices. device. You can time the impressive, compared with just watch simultaneously matchup you’re interested
You could get some 40 free week trial to watch the other networks, it’s short on a phone and a personal in for stats, highlights and a
devices to watch all the Final Four games on April of what CBS All Access of- computer. link to the full game.q
games for free, but getting 1 and the championship fers. Sony says the 99 CBS RAISING THE STAKES
cable service might be on April 3, if that’s all you stations it has through Vue
cheaper. Streaming devic- want. Make sure your local covers 60 percent of the
es are OK for watching, but station is included. CBS says U.S. population.
there’s no grace period. it has deals covering more KEEPING UP
Games also will be avail- than 90 percent of the U.S. If you subscribe through
able on individual apps for population, but that won’t PlayStation Vue and have
TBS, TNT and truTV - again help if you’re in that 10 per- a PlayStation 4 device, you
with a password. cent. For the Turner chan- can watch three chan-
On desktops and laptops, nels, you can get Sling TV nels on the same screen at