Posted on 01/16/2024 2:28:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Almost every third commercial on the game before that was a Peacock ad urging everyone to sign up to watch the game.
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Peacock? No thanks. I’m on limited BW here and Peacock has no Data Saver setting (that I’m aware of) and eats gigabits like popcorn...
If the NFL goes to 100% streaming, they will kill the Golden Goose. Fans won’t watch or buy their overpriced swag.
If NBC thought to make money on that one game, did they make more than the $110 MILLION they gave the NFL? I bet they didn’t.
Did they get millions of new subscribers to sign up for their crappy streaming service? I doubt it.
All in all it was a losing proposition all the way around for NBC, NFL and FAN.....................
If the NFL doesn’t want me to watch the games then I won’t. I’m not paying money to watch games AND see advertisements too.
And from what I’ve heard the video was terrible.................
The man on the radio said the game was the largest streaming event in internet history. I’m guessing it was also the smallest television audience of a play-off game since the 1950s.
I doubt the NFL will go 100% streaming, the NFL has an anti-trust exemption from Congress that could easily get revoked, if the NFL went 100% streaming, I think the public backlash would be huge and force the politicians to do something, that reason alone should keep the NFL from doing this.
Almost all of these streaming services are losing lots of money, NBC was overpaying for 1 game hoping to get a lot of new paying subscribers, I doubt it will work.
OTOH, I hope streaming services succeed, if they continue as they are. Cable and the satellite services are pricing themselves out of the market. (Remember that, streaming services !!!)
Also … I don’t think the NFL has an antitrust exemption from Congress. If they did, then the USFL would have had no legal basis to sue the NFL back in the 1980s.
For what it’s worth, the USFL actually won that lawsuit — but were awarded only $1 in damages because they couldn’t prove that the NFL’s monopoly harmed them in any way.
Mathematically it can't work past a certain point. Once they sign up all the fans that want to, there are no more to be signed up. It's a perfect example of the Law of Diminishing Returns.................
And to add to that, the new subscribers can cancel anytime.................
If the fans are so upset, why did a record number of them sign up for this game? I was hoping few would do so.
Of course it was a ‘record’, it was the first time..................
Here’s an article about the NFL’s anti-trust exemption.
It would be interesting to see the stats on how many that paid for the livestream show paid with EBT's. I KNOW that data would never be made public.
It is cheaper to get Peacock then it is too get ESPN.
It’s a shame people don’t get as worked up about the invasion at our southern border.
ESPN is Disney. They overcharge for everything....................
What’s the matter, NFL...
Missing all those Pfizer ad buys...?
That’s what happened to boxing. They used to show the big fights on regular TV. Then they went to pay per view. Now boxing is a shell of its former self. They make more money but I think they lose fans over the long haul.
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