{"id":585973,"date":"2026-04-15T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585973\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:56:11","slug":"watching-the-cleveland-cavaliers-first-round-playoffs-on-tv-will-be-tricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585973\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Cleveland Cavaliers first round playoffs on tv will be tricky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -Now that we know when the Cleveland Cavaliers will play their first round NBA playoff games, it\u2019s time to figure out how you\u2019re going to watch them on tv. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cavs face the Toronto Raptors starting this Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The first three games will be on streaming platforms only, with the fourth game being played on ESPN. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Which means if you want to watch the Cavs in the first round you will need to subscribe to both Amazon Prime Video and Peacock, and have a service that provides ESPN. <\/p>\n<p>Game 1 at Cleveland at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 18: Amazon PrimeGame 2 at Cleveland at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 20: PeacockGame 3 at Toronto at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 23: Amazon PrimeGame 4 at Toronto at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 26: ESPN<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For businesses like sports bars this is not good news. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Streaming in a bar is not as simple as purchasing one streaming subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For a bar to show a streaming game they have to purchase a license where the cost is based on how many seats, or the capacity of their location. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Which in some cases can be thousands and thousands of dollars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -Now that we know when the Cleveland Cavaliers will play their first round NBA playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-585973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}