Recent content by ncted

The TV money is for all sports, but everything I've ever read shows that the football games are what drives TV revenue. This is one of the reasons why the ACC can't match the SEC and Big10 in TV revenue -- their football games just don't bring the same viewership numbers. The other revenue...

You didn't. You said "many," which I agreed with. I expanded on that to talk about the majority because that is what should be driving business decisions at these media companies. Keeping a minority of customers happy by overcharging the majority didn't work last time (with cable/satellite)...

It was a joke about UNC thinking they are bigger than they are and hiring a big time coach -- or at least a very expensive one. Hence the winking emoji. The local reporting has been that the money to pay him is primarily coming from the TV revenues. Needless to say the basketball fans at UNC...

Many people, yes. The majority of people, maybe in aggregate? Maybe? That is, fans of all sports and all teams may represent a simple majority of TV viewers. How important is another thing. Would all the NFL fans be willing to pay for Sunday Ticket if that was the only way to watch the...

Well, UNC hired Bill Belichick. ;) Looks like the schools that report such things typically get over a third of their sports revenue from TV rights, with ticket sales, state funding (in the case of public schools), and booster donations being secondary sources of income. As to whether the...

That is only partially true. Amazon, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, and AppleTV have all added sports programming. It is unavoidable anymore. One of the reasons I fled satellite was the high cost of sports, but that win was only temporary. I don't hate sports. I watch F1, and I paid for it...

It probably varies from school to school.

I think the waste is in college football, not what Disney has already spent. If anything, the huge amounts Disney and others have already spent are the reason these ridiculous college coach payouts described in the article are possible. Colleges are spending money they don't have on football...

Well, I didn't say one way or the other, but my understanding was Disney makes most of their money from their parks and cruise lines these days. The TV stuff is technically profitable, but not nearly as much as it used to be. I was mainly talking about how much money is wasted on college...

ABC has to pay for all the waste in college football somehow: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/sport/college-football-coach-buyouts

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netflix-taps-bank-explore-bid-warner-bros-discovery-2025-10-30/

Wow $30 more per year. Peacock will probably not get renewed next year at that price. My wife watches it more than I do, but much of the stuff is on NBC which we also get via our OTA/Channels DVR setup. Peacock will likely be the first service we drop full time.

FWIW: My annual plan will renew after the price increase, so I downgraded to the Standard ad-free plan upon renewal.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-end-of-mtv-paramount-is-thinking-about-shutting-down-all-remaining-mtv-channels/

Gotta pay the marketing folks for that expensive name change to HBO Max.