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xelaju
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Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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Paramount Plus works for shows and movies but live sports will not play. I have updated the app and I keep my player. I have same issue logged into CBS Sports with my paramount account.

I have a fiber gigabit connection and I don't have problems streaming live sports through for example ESPN. It's not a bandwidth limitation. 

When I start Paramount lives sports, soccer matches, I just get a black screen that says live guide at the bottom.

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Dom_P
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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FYI. I got it to work. Seems an ad blocking issue. Specifically paramount+ needs to be allowed to get to pubads.g.doubleclick.net. It is ridiculous that this is needed but I setup my firewall to allow outbound access for Roku devices and now live games load properly. 

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Dom_P
Newbie

Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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I have the same issue on multiple Roku devices. Replay of the event works fine however live streaming shows a black screen 

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Dom_P
Newbie

Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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FYI. I got it to work. Seems an ad blocking issue. Specifically paramount+ needs to be allowed to get to pubads.g.doubleclick.net. It is ridiculous that this is needed but I setup my firewall to allow outbound access for Roku devices and now live games load properly. 

HDMIGuy
Roku Guru

Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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@Dom_P Since live sports depend on advertisement revenue I am not suprised that live sports will not play with an add blocker enbabled.  

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xelaju
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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You may be onto something. I see my a ton of ad blocks for my roku devices. 

Mike

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ShoeLady
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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same problem.  Two different Roku devices do not work with live soccer streaming on P+ (Serie A and UEFA).  Replays of past soccer games work fine.

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xelaju
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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It's working for me now after I allowed traffic to the ad site listed in the other site. Their implementation on that is extremely clumsy to say the least but it is what it is. 

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Laz55238
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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How do you disable an ad blocker on your Samsung TV ? 

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JJY
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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Hi,

I have a paramount + premium subscription with my Roku Account, CBS sports requests login www.paramountplus.com/roku and enter code. After entering code it asks for TV Provider, but Roku is not listed. So how do I get Cbs sports with my paramount+ over roku account?

Thanks

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Webb3201
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Re: Paramount Plus Live Sports Not Playing

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I owe you a massive debt of gratitude!   Have been mad all season that the EFL stream weren’t working.   Spent so much time messing around looking for a solution, and this did the trick!   May good karma flow over you!!!

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