Posted on 01/10/2024 1:54:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Mike are you still under the mistaken belief that the NFL is a Sport?
The thing about Peacock is they don’t have anything AFTER the game. Their programming is pretty weak. This move will expose that. The result will not be good.
What are they complaining about? With MLB.tv, you get blacked out of live games even when you pay for a subscription.
The underlying issue here that every entertainment venue must contend with is that there are so many options out there that none of them can generate a large enough audience to attract major advertising revenues. This is known as the “audience dispersal effect” in the entertainment business.
But one aspect of this is going to make things even worse over time. With more and more entertainment options available to people, the industry is reaching the point where most programming doesn’t even generate enough revenue to cover the cost of production. When the NFL teaches that point, I’ll be thrilled.
I know what streaming is, but I had never heard of “Peacock” until I read this thread.
You state the Coyotes “have been a prime candidate for relocation in the NHL for years.”
That's the current thinking, you are parroting. But why haven't the Coyotes been moved instead of allowing expansions in Seattle or Las Vegas? Ask your NHL Commissioner first before you take it up with me.
The Coyotes do not have a permanent home, yet, in Arizona. Again, I respectfully suggest, you ask your NHL Commissioner first before you take it up with me.
Same with NFL Sunday Ticket. If you live within 100 miles of the stadium you get blacked out even though you pay, unless it’s a sold out game 24 hrs in advance.....................
The Thursday night games were on Prime. I just lucked out and happen to have it on my kindle. The NFL channel showed the game after it was over. This decision is not going to endear itself to the public.
I watched the special, “Kelsey”. Their oldest daughter who was 4 yo would have costed them 4K. That’s insane.
And I know why the Coyotes have not relocated, so I don’t need to ask NHL commissioner Gary Bettman about it. Since the mid-1990s the NHL’s business model has been built on establishing a presence in every major U.S. TV market — even if they have hardly any hockey fans. That’s why the original Winnipeg Jets were even allowed to relocate to Arizona in the first place.
Relocation has become a rare thing in the NHL for one simple reason. If there is a city out there with no NHL team that looks like a good destination for a franchise to relocate, the NHL would much rather put an expansion team there and collect a huge up-front expansion fee from the new team. The Seattle Kraken, for example, paid a $650 million expansion fee to join the NHL a couple of years ago. That money gets divided among the existing owners and goes right into their pockets.
So an NHL team will only relocate in a rare case where the team’s ownership situation is so precarious that the league has to intervene and get involved in managing or subsidizing the franchise. That’s exactly what happened to the Coyotes a few years ago.
While network television was losing to cable and cable was losing to streaming, even streaming is losing viewers which points to a significant number of previous video viewers choosing something else other than video.
A lot of elderly folks don’t have either the money or the tech-savvy for streaming.
Good, it means I won’t have to see Taylor Swift.
Not to mention the parking and concessions.
You folks are missing something. It’s taxpayers. As long as one dollar is goes to support the NFL it’s up to congress to put a stop to this crap. Remember in the 70’s where a sold-out game 72 hours before kickoff was required to be televised? Even us free marketers need gatekeepers. Would the beautiful Sofi-stadium get built with 100% private capital? They can squeeze us out, the Joe six-packs. I don’t care but I’ll be dammed if they get away with drinking at the public trough.
The NFL is a $12 billion/yr industry. It’s no secret they want to double it. They can do it on their own.
I agree with you about the taxpayer issue but I’m not sure there’s a role for Congress in it. The taxpayer funding of stadium venues is really a state and local matter.
That’s true, but not the casting part. I go to sportsurge.net for this, but the NFL has it’s mitts on that too. It won’t let me cast to TV, when I try, some message about NFL licensing comes on. Unless there is a workaround I don’t know about
Find a discord server streaming the games on one of its chat channels.
Everybody who can jumps around to new networks and streamers to make u pay again
Yellowstone was awful this way
Some like Tubi and Hulu and Fubo if you get the free version
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