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I could see the over the air options going away, but could see ESPN holding onto exclusive rights on their channels that you can't view on espn+.
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Wait till we have pay per view to watch the Super Bowl
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Then $15 for Disney + which gets you hulu and espn+ too and $15 for Amazon. Someone needs to step in.
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I realized at long last what bothers me so much about this.
The bottom line is that I'm the historic customer. I watch NFL games, and advertisers have historically paid the mainstream stations so they can get their product in front of me, and maybe I'll buy it. That's the relationship, but it's built on the foundation of me as the NFL's customer, making the effort to turn on the TV and watch their games. Moves like the stupid peacock thing are a decision that the NFL is making against my best interests. They essentially gave me a big middle finger and said, "We're going to sell the game to this network that you don't subscribe to, because that network is paying us money. So you, you stupid customer, go pay them and get a subscription so we can make more money. The NFL intentionally took an action to cause me hassle and cost, so that they could make more money. The assumption, I guess, is that I'll blindly follow. Or maybe the assumption is that there are people on stupid peacock now who don't know anything about football, but they'll watch the game and suddenly become football fans. I can't imagine that the second assumption has any truth to it, so it's got to be the first assumption. And in my case, that's an incorrect assumption. I love watching football, but I'm going in the other direction on buying subscriptions and having screen time. My market forces for not paying for more services is stronger than my desire to watch more football.
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My wife likes netflix, and we have Amazon Prime, so I can get those two things as well. But I wouldn't pay for them if my wife didn't want them. I watch something maybe once a month on those services.
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Well I have not been on cable for over 10 years. If they go down this road they will be losing me as a viewer. I know, who cares right? If there are enough people like me out there maybe they will listen. Probably not but some of us do have a line. What really gets me about the push to streaming is that isp's have monthly overage charges as well. They always find a way to get you in the end.
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AFAIK, there's still content on ESPN/2 that you can only stream on ESPN+ if you have cable or satellite, but I haven't tried in a while, so could be wrong. And I'm coming at this from the perspective of anyone who doesn't want to mess with illegal streams or IPTV options. I have access to YTTV (but don't pay for it) and pay for ESPN+ and Hulu ("free" with a cell phone plan), and totally willing to find other streaming options. But, it's obnoxious to want to be "shut up and take my money" guy to watch sports, yet there are now zero good options now besides "just sign up for these 10 platforms". It wasn't that long ago I paid ~$90/month for TWC ($130 including internet) and had the sports add on that gave me all the college conference channels, NHLN, CBS Sports, FSN, etc. It was beautiful.
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Remember when we were told digital was going to be better. The signals do not travel as far. Remember when we were told streaming and cord cutting was going to be easier. I claim BULLSHIT. It has all been a money grab. By providers, internet companies and the government. Taking away analog tv to sell it to cell phone providers. Rizzoli and Isles reruns are on StartTV ...OTA. ION is OTA and runs all Law and Orders one day a week.
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I think that's similar to what you're saying... after so many years of watching sports, there's a ton of repetitive plays and so forth that's not vital to the viewing experience. Unlike what you said though, the reasoning is exactly why I watch live... and like DaFace said, it's a whole event, whether it's talking about the game or shipping some BBQ from KC for the game, etc. Yeah, if you're not emotionally invested in a game at all, then you're probably not missing anything and can obviously watch the fun parts later... I used to have a far bigger FOMO and over the years have realized I'm almost never missing out on something amazing. OTOH, I'm glad I'm not completely at that point yet with several postseasons, even though I'll probably quickly be there with the NFL once Mahomes retires (I was basically there before he was drafted).
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The other thing is, and I have zero statistics for this, but if you put something on a streaming service, you're definitely going to have those viewers locked in to your broadcast. If you're watching a MNF game between the Seahawks and Rams or whatever on cable, you can flip over during a commercial to watch a college basketball game or whatever else is on, but you aren't flipping from Peacock to Netflix or whatever the same way. So you have a better chance of viewers paying attention to your advertisers. We'll see if it plays out that way but I can see the logic to it. |
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The real tragedy is that these games aren't broadcast in 4K.
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