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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
And I didn't say the NFL needs to replace their current contract with Twitter. I am saying the use of streaming for a nationally televised game goes to show how many people would gladly stream an out-of-market game that wasn't available on network TV.
Good grief, you're SO ****ING verbose.
And, of course, you're wrong.
Last night's game garnered only 8 million viewers across all platforms, including streaming.
The 2015 Week 4 Thursday night game garnered 19.4 million viewers on NFLN and CBS.
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https://nflcommunications.com/Pages/...Platforms.aspx
2.2M total viewers on Twitter (2.6M in week 2). Only 200-300K at any given time. But that's a lot of eyeballs.
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If Direct TV loses Sunday Ticket, not only will DTV/AT&T suffer but there's no way the NFL generates $1.5 billion annually from Sunday Ticket or similar.
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DirecTV is dependent on the NFL a shitload more than the NFL is dependent on DirecTV. And it's going to get worse over the next 5 years. If the NFL is cool with watching that downward slide in viewership, fine. Like I said, there's a point when losing diehard viewers isn't worth whatever premium DirecTV is charging.
MLBTV has 3.5M subscribers paying $130 for a much less popular sport. The NFL would have a shitload more subscribers paying a much higher price. You're absolutely nuts if you don't think there would be enormous demand for an online streaming option that didn't tie your hands to a dish.