{"id":239732,"date":"2026-03-27T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239732\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:26:11","slug":"what-channel-is-astros-vs-angels-game-on-how-to-watch-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239732\/","title":{"rendered":"What channel is Astros vs. Angels game on? How to watch Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a>&#8216; season and fans will have\u00a0to navigate MLB\u2019s byzantine national TV packages.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s 7:15 p.m. game against the Los Angeles Angels at Daikin Park will not be broadcast or streamed on Space City Home Network, the Astros&#8217; usual carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the game will stream exclusively on Apple TV to kick off the streamer\u2019s fifth season of MLB Friday night games. An Apple TV subscription is required to watch. A subscription costs $12.99 a month plus tax, with <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\" class=\"\">a free seven-day trial offered<\/a>\u00a0to qualified new and returning subscribers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alex Faust (play-by-play), Ryan Spilborghs (analyst) and\u00a0Tricia Whitaker (field reporter) will call the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u00a0is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/houston-apple-tv-2026-games-first-half-22071140.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">two Apple TV games for the Astros<\/a> during the first half of the schedule. The May 22 game in Chicago against the Cubs, with a 1:20 p.m. first pitch at Wrigley Field, also is an Apple exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros have one other scheduled streaming exclusive this season: the July 5 home game against Tampa Bay that will air on Peacock at 2:30\u00a0p.m. as part of \u201cStar Spangled Sunday\u201d on NBC and Peacock, which joined MLB\u2019s group of national rightsholders this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day into the Houston Astros&#8216; season and fans will have\u00a0to navigate MLB\u2019s byzantine national TV packages. Friday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-239732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}