Pro sports are a bunch of commies. Better not to watch them.
College counts as pro sports.
Florida fans should have been grateful for that.
The darker, the better.
I used to be a huge college football fan. When I broke the habit of watching the NFL, I naturally lost interest in watching college football too. It’s just too much of a time commitment, and I don’t really understand how people live eat and breathe this stuff. The country is going to hell, and I really don’t care about the bread and circuses anymore, especially with so many sports giving me the middle finger with all of the woke messaging.
It feels like overall sports fandom is becoming less of thing now and with people cutting cable, I bet there’s going to be more of these pricing disputes between networks and cable providers as they all duke it out for a bigger share of a shrinking pie.
Yes, listen on the radio on your completely free radio stations.
Local sports teams games used to be primarily on the air on your local broadcast TV stations...and would return if consumers voted with their feet and stopped paying fees to watch them...or not watch them...you pay it whether you watch or not. That’s what Disney is trying to do per some reports - they want Spectrum to give subscribers all of their stations so they can charge fees for each one whether people watch or not. If they made stuff worth watching, then they would make money off of commercial fees due to good ratings. This is how the quality of programming has been allowed to crash over the years - they get paid money even if you don’t watch if you subscribe. This came to be from carriage fees for cable services and made even worse when streaming came along.
buncha bastard sharks eating each other alive.
Public be damned.
Disney is evil
Have watched two reports on this tonight. Disney is living in the past and thinks they can still charge whatever they want , especially for ESPN. Charter Spectrum says that according to their data only 25% of their customers watch any Disney channels including ESPN. They offered a more realistic deal and Disney turned them down.
All this will ultimately impact Disney revenues from their other cable deals. They have made so mistakes it is finally hurting them. Add in to that they need money and lots of it. They are contractually obligated to buy the 1/3 of Hulu they do not own and that will add up to billions they need right now to close the deal by December 31, 2023. So they will have to sell off some assets like Fox to make it work or a piece of ESPN itself.
Oh and their stock closed at a big low also today.
I’m so pissed. For years I worked on the weekends and missed games. Now that I no longer work, Disney does this crap. No SEC games for me!
sounds like a good time to consider switching from spectrum to directv ...
ESPN a big reason for high cable rates.
These squabbles happen and, like a strike,
can be timed just right to inflict maximum
damage.
Paraphrasing TV critic Steve Beverly:
“Grandma doesn’t want ESPN but she
has to pay astronomical rates because
of high sports team fees”.
Not like you can pick and choose
only the channels you want any pay
only for _them_...unless you refuse to pay
for a “higher tier”.
Last night was in Wilkes Barre PA
and couldn’t get the Bob Barker tribute
because the motel’s DirecTV was barred
from carrying CBS—or NBC—due to a squabble with the owner of the affiliates,
Nexstar—and I read online that’s been
in effect for months.
So in my case I downloaded the free
CBS app, clicked on it and confirmed
my own home subscription to cable
(Xfinity) and watched it on my
phone via WYOU-TV and CBS.
So, still available but not on
the DirecTV.
Have to keep my WiFi for work but I guess it’s time to turn the cable box in...
There are literally hundreds of sports betting sites that stream complete games for free. Disney is being incredibly short sighted.