Posted on 12/06/2016 6:51:22 AM PST by raccoonradio
Last year, Americans collectively spent 31 billion hours watching sports on TV — a 40% increase from a decade ago.
They watched football, baseball, basketball, hockey, horse racing, NASCAR, rowing, rugby, soccer and volleyball — even Little League championships and poker games.
“Live sports is the most valuable content on the planet,” said Adam Ware, head of digital media at Tennis Channel, based in Santa Monica.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It's changed, sort of. I got my choice of the channels I wanted most along with about an equal number I didn't want. In addition, there were many more channels that I was blocked from receiving. Internet and TV for $122/month (sans phone) from Cox. Too much!
Check out https://directvnow.com/
This is a brand new AT&T streaming service that just started about a week ago. It’s basically in Beta now, but if you sign up now for $35 per month, you get the third tier with over 100 channels (quite a few that I actually watch) and you’ll be grandfathered in at $35 instead of $60 after the intro period. Also, if you go ahead and pay the first month, you’ll get a free Amazon Fire Stick (about $40 value) or prepay 3 months and get an Apple TV box (about $150 value). No contract also. I’ve been streaming to a first generation Chromecast and it works great. The app is still a work in progress and switching channels is a bit slow, but the service is new and bound to improve. If you don’t want a free device to stream to, they have a trial period of a week.
The video quality appears to be the same on my 65 inch Sony 4k TV as the video from Dish Network. Looks promising so far.
"The NFL alone collects nearly $7.5 billion a year from media companies..."
Yet, by some magical method, they remain a non-profit organization.
Talk about needing a life!
We don’t have that option in Californicator land with Comcast.
Our so called bare bones package is now $225/month. The first year was similar to your costs. Then, it went up every year
This year, they refused to even negotiate a low price.
What a racket!
The cable Mafia get paid by the zillion channels we ignore, including the illegals channels.
Then we get to pay them all over again?
THEY SHOULD BE PAYING US!
As for the sports jocks?
If they all disappeared tomorrow it may be years before I notice a thing...
OK... maybe crime and suicides going up...
“”The NFL alone collects nearly $7.5 billion a year from media companies...”
Yet, by some magical method, they remain a non-profit organization. “
It is clear that the NFL has a lot in common with The Clinton Foundation....
I'm right at the 4 year anniversary of my farewell to Comcrap. That's about $5K that they will never get. I just wish they would stop sending people to my doorstep trying to talk me into signing up again.
It won't stay that way if people like Kaepernick keep using it as a liberal platform.
Better yet, use Kodi or Perfect Player on a Fire TV box with Smash IPTV. All the sports and movies of premium cable for $50/yr. I also understand there’s other IPTV providers too, Rapid IPTV and Flawless IPTV look to be worth considering too
That won't do it. All you can save is a small monthly rental of a few dollars. They have to connect the cable to your drop. Also, they make it so you have to set up your router/cable box to match your account in their database.
Deleting all TV cable service and increasing internet speed from 70 MIPS to 200 MIPS.
$259 vs 96 now.
That, and I discovered Kodi and Exodus; kept Netflix and Amazon prime; which I enjoy for most purchases, from kindle books to free movies, critter medications to a cordless mower... all free delivery.
Which explains why there are about 500 College Bowl Games now.
ESPN is killing college football.
I had a similar decrease in cost.. was paying $180/mo for basic cable and 50 MIPS. Now paying $70/mo for 100, and another $4 or do for 950 channels of pretty much everything
Not in California.
Both my sons are Silicon Valley techies and they have over the air TV, their own modem-router and private servers. All legal.
Wonderful!
I quit watching professional thugball,1,2 & 3 in the mid 80s...
Last year was great, when they played SMU in Dallas. I live about 15 miles from the campus.
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