Peacock exclusive playoff game is stupid

[treeguy27]

Bad move by the league. Quit being greedy and keeping your customers from watching your product.

Surely they wont put Mahomes in that game but who knows.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Yes. That's the same reason HBO used to have free preview weekends on cable way back in the day. You see something you like and hopefully they entice you to subscribe long term.

Peacock wants you to see that they have soccer and golf and baseball and motorcross and auto racing and movies and WWE and hopefully something will catch your eye to keep you subscribed long term.

When I was a teen, cable came to my hometown. Before then, it was just antennas. My parents got the basic set of channels, but once every couple of months or so the cable company would do a sampler and open up all of the channels for viewing. My parents didn't know that there were a couple of soft-core porn channels that came on late at night after they went to bed, and I never told them. We only had one TV, which was in the living room, and it had no remote. I would turn the sound down really low and sit near the TV, and I always had an ear attuned to the sound of their bedroom door opening. If that door opened, I could change the channel to some late-night talk show in 0.05 seconds.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by mabbott

Peacock now has 31 million subscribers. They are making it without the NFL, they are just trying to bring people in to boost their subscriptions. If you don't watch other sports, then keep finding pirated streams. I have done that and it is a pain in the a$$ in addition to poor quality streams and having to fight them trying to put malware, etc on my network/systems.

This playoff game has more than paid for itself in free advertising. All of the people whining on social media just makes it a better investment. The number of people who are willing to pay $6 to watch a game they would have to pay hundreds of dollars to see in person far outnumbers those who won't pay the $6.

If they have good enough content then offer the game up for free without being obligated to sign up for something. Lots of people will be willing to pay $6. But the NFL is also going to lose a looottttt of people who would've watched the game if it were offered for free. From fans of other teams to the swifty crowd theyre courting who don't care enough about the sport. And those lost eyeballs are potential future fans, future buyers or merch and more immediately eyeballs for nfl sponsors who pay out the ass to get their product in front of a large audience. NBC makes bank and therefore the NFL, but that doesn't mean it's a great move for the NFL

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

I recently watched the entire series of parks and rec on Philo. It plays on some channel, IFC, so you can watch anytime with ads or click save and when the shows are actually airing you can then go back watch without ads (for a few weeks or maybe more not sure) with one click commercial skipping.

Hmmm, I'll check that out. Thanks a bunch!

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

They've got a few good shows that I wish I could watch other places. The Office & Parks & Rec being 2 of them.

I assume The Good Place, too... that one is pretty funny.

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[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

It looks like I'm screwed by my attempt to use my "free peacock premium" account through xfinity. I don't get peacock and I can't cancel the account. Xfinitty/Comcast continues to live up to their reputation as the world's worst company.

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversat...28f948d8d529f3

I still have the email that I no longer received peacock premium with my xfinity internet.

They had to pay for the Big 10 package somehow.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

I haven't been a Peacock fan for a bit, this just helps it along. For a bit I was paying $6 a month to watch SOME of their shows WITH commercials. If I'm paying for your service, I'm paying to avoid commercials and to have access to your full catalog.

This

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

I assume The Good Place, too... that one is pretty funny.

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Seeing the potential of online programming.

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Seeing how online programming is implemented by large companies.

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[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

Hmmm, I'll check that out. Thanks a bunch!

It was our solution to cord cutting. Doesn’t work for everyone since no live sports channels but has all the other cable channels one would expect. Only $20 per month and still gives you access to individual channel apps (Discovery, Food, etc) should you prefer that route.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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Yeah, that's a pretty perfect representation of watching the NFL.

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

Guess I'll just listen in on the 105.7 live stream as usual.

I have no desire to pay for streaming and honestly, don't see what I'm missing.

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by BigRichard

You are missing the entire point. Yes, it is a bit of a pain in the ass when you could just pay the $5.99. But the point is to maybe put yourself out just a little bit(it isn't that hard) and hopefully they will not try this shit in the future.

I get it, but there is no way they will not try this shit again in the future.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

I get it, but there is no way they will not try this shit again in the future.

The future will be 17 Chiefs games on 17 different streaming platforms, all charging their own pricing and requiring an annual subscription.

Week 1 will be on CBS for $17 per month (minimum three-month subscription that auto-renews), but they might switch to another game at halftime.
Week 2 will be on ESPN for $143, which includes a required annual subscription to men's horseshoe tossing.
Week 3 will be on the Hallmark Channel, for $11.95, with two romance novelists who don't watch football as the announcing team. It'll also include 11 home shopping channels in a bundle at $9.99 per year each.
Week 4 will be on Public Television for $56, or for $75 they'll include an official Week 4 tote bag.

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Week 17 will be on Chattanooga Channel 36, the local ABC affiliate for $29, but is only available within a 40-mile radius of Chattanooga.


And of course, the broadcast networks will be different for every team, because the NFL can make more money by auctioning off game coverage individually. So just because you buy the annual subscription to CNN27 to watch the Chiefs game in Week 11, you're going to need 15 other subscriptions to watch the other 15 games.

And then at some point those networks will come back asking why the actual viewership was 10,000 people instead of 14 million people, and then it'll be too late because all of the kids have grown up watching soccer or something since football is a hassle to view.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

Guess I'll just listen in on the 105.7 live stream as usual.

I have no desire to pay for streaming and honestly, don't see what I'm missing.

Patrick Mahomes. You're missing Patrick Mahomes.

[R Clark]

So this peacock bs is 6 dollars a month? Can you sign up for one month?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by R Clark

So this peacock bs is 6 dollars a month? Can you sign up for one month?

Yep. I think it's $12 for commercial free content.