Football-loving cord-cutters could have a simple time watching this Sunday’s NFL Conference championship video games. The 2^nd-seed Kansas City Chiefs will face the 6^th-seed Tennessee Titans in Kansas City for the AFC championship at 12:05 PM Pacific, and the top-seed San Francisco 49ers will face the two^nd-seed Green Bay Packers in San Francisco at 3:40 PM Pacific. The respective winners of every recreation will go on to play Super Bowl LIV on February 2. That recreation is scheduled to kick off in Miami at 3:30 PM Pacific.

We’ll present you catch each video games—and the Super Bowl itself—even in the event you don’t have a cable- or satellite-TV subscription.

Option one: Use an antenna

Of the 4 main North American sports activities leagues, the NFL stays the one one you may nonetheless take pleasure in and not using a dear cable subscription. All you want is an antenna that’s able to pulling in your native CBS affiliate for the AFC recreation, and your native Fox channel for the NFC recreation.

If you’re sufficiently old, the considered utilizing an antenna most likely conjures recollections of temperamental “rabbit ears” and staticky photographs. Thanks to trendy broadcast expertise and over-the-air antennas, you will get a high-quality picture that may, in some instances, be higher than what you’d get with a subscription. are available in a spread of designs.

If you reside shut sufficient to a broadcast tower, you would possibly be capable to use paper-thin indoor mannequin resembling our high choose, the Winegard FlatWave Amped. If you’re extra distant, you could be higher off with an antenna that mounts to your roof or on a freestanding mast. The Antennas Direct DB8e is our favourite in that class. Either manner, all you want do is plug one into the tuner that’s a fixture of most trendy TVs.

Before you buy an antenna, although, go to a web site like TVFool or Antennaweb and see which networks can be found out of your native broadcasters. Just enter your tackle to get a report of all the published alerts in your space, ranked from strongest to weakest. Once you establish which broadcaster is furthest from your property, you’ll know what vary antenna to purchase.

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Option two: Use a streaming service

In the occasion you’re too removed from a transmitter to drag in CBS and Fox, you’ll want one or a mix of the streaming choices that comply with.

CBS All Access

CBS

The best technique to catch the AFC championship—other than a broadcast TV antenna—is to enroll in the CBS All Access service. It prices $6 per thirty days, however there’s a one-week free trial for brand new subscribers. In addition to live-streaming CBS content material, you’ll get on-demand entry a library of the service’s authentic programming, together with Star Trek: Discovery and The Good Fight, plus CBS broadcast sequence. CBS All Access has apps for iOS and Android, most streaming gadgets, Xbox One, and PS4.