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  1. Bilbo1

    Traditional Providers Losses, 3rd Quarter 2023 Edition

    I’m expecting a handful of companies to do what DirecTV did and offer a streaming version of their service. Spectrum seems like a likely candidate. Although, Fubo may also be a takeover candidate for someone like Spectrum. The question will be how many of these services can survive? I’m...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    Most people have replaced analog TVs with TVs with digital tuners. Peak cable coincided with the digital transition. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Disney-Charter battle highlights bundling demise?

    Streaming services are built for linear filler channels. Peacock and Paramount+ already have them. Heck, they could stand up a 50s channel, 60s channel, themed channels, seasonal channels, etc using the content that they already have in their libraries. One part of every streaming service can...
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    Locals want a piece $ of the streaming action

    Ah, ok, just Peacock Premium. Mostly use it for EPL games. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Locals want a piece $ of the streaming action

    I remember setting it up a while ago, but don’t see the local now, nor how to authenticate. We’ll, streaming makes DVRs obsolete. It doesn’t matter where the storage is. Streaming can also handle ad insertion or not for those that pay a premium. As noted, streamers are already including...
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    Locals want a piece $ of the streaming action

    Currently, Paramount Plus authenticates the local CBS affiliate and a local news loop with their live channels. I expect Peacock to add the local NBC affiliate with their live offerings, soon. Peacock offers some big city news loops now. I’m not sure what Disney/ABC plans… they haven’t done...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    This wasn’t a problem for Apple and MLS, at least not beyond a bit of a learning curve, mostly with talent. It would be nice if they had kept the local flavor of hometown announcers as opposed to national talent. But, they do offer home team radio simulcast for the audio. It would also be nice...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    Yep. Cable companies are going to continue losing customers. At some point, they’ll decide cable TV isn’t worth the effort. Let’s face it, they don’t want to deal with negotiating carriage agreements (motivation enough to drop TV). As time goes, they’ll have less motivation to operate the cable...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    Break those costs down per hour and compare it to the number of viewers it gets... Baseball, it’s about $400k an hour given 30 teams playing 160 games. Basic cable programming costs for Fox News level viewership. The NFL is pretty big at $14 million per hour, but they bring in viewership that...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    [emoji849] So, RSNs are going away. No big deal. As for viewership, the same could be said for every cable network. And, as for cost, that’s why cable is going away. People don’t want to pay for ‘57 channels and nothing on’ anymore. Streaming gives the appearance that ‘you are only paying for...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    This uses numbers from last year… https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rsns-most-viewed-local-programming Pretty much Fox News numbers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    People don’t want to pay $30 per month to stream their RSN while they can pay $70 to $100 a month for a complete cable package. RSNs are well watched in market. On aggregate, any given night, the total number of people watching their RSN beats most everything on TV. Baseball has 30 teams, each...
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    Bally Sports RSNs Are Reportedly Preparing For Bankruptcy

    I’m wondering how many are Disney bundle vs. stand alone ESPN+ subscribers. The cost of adding an additional service is small. Linear ESPN has Sportcenter on in heavy rotation. The only live sports right now is the Little League World Series. Not sure there is a real need for linear channels to...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    Pretty much. As a consumer, its a little better in some ways, and worse in others. Better in that it will probably stay lower cost. No MVPD mark up. You may not need to have all providers every month, so you can save a few $$$ canceling unused services monthly. You’re also more likely to get...
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    Will all OTA subchannels be streaming or will many die?

    I think the bigger question is how will local TV fare in the age of streaming? Most of the sub channels are owned by the network the local is affiliated with and show syndicated reruns. That could easily be done in a streaming platform owned by the network. Plus, do any of the brands have name...
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    ESPN actively planning to offer linear feed directly to consumers, has deals with two leagues

    Plenty of good content out there that I haven’t watched, that’s, um, ‘new to me.’ A couple of friends recently decided to watch every Best Picture Oscar winner. They were very complimentary of ‘Wings.’ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    ESPN actively planning to offer linear feed directly to consumers, has deals with two leagues

    I remember Larry Linville talking about M*A*S*H back in the day. It was up against Wonderful World of Disney and FBI. It got abused in the fall, but in reruns, instead of people that watched either show going to the other, they went to M*A*S*H. Big ratings followed. This is where streaming will...
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    ESPN actively planning to offer linear feed directly to consumers, has deals with two leagues

    Dude, the writers/actors strikes will be the death knell for linear TV. The pandemic did some heavy lifting to make people aware of what streaming offers, but the lack of new content for linear providers resulting from a prolonged strike will drive people to archived content on the streamers...
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    YouTube TV is Raising its Price

    It’s getting to the point where YTTV needs to start thinking about tiers or some other way to opt out of channel/price creep. When I left DirecTV for DirecTV Now all those years ago, I took the middle package… saved quite a bit. When that went away, YTTV was something like $50 with fewer...
  20. Bilbo1

    AppleTV + may soon be home of Pac12 football

    Meh. With the loss of USC and UCLA, not much there of national interest. Wasn’t much beyond history with UCLA and USC, either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Disney drops 2.4 million streaming subs

    Satellite’s days are numbered. A fairly large number from the consumer’s standpoint, but not that big in terms of corporate planning. That’s why DirecTV created DirecTV Stream and Dish created Sling. They are planning to deliver their services through streaming in the future. I can see cable...
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    DIRECTV unlikely to keep NFL Sunday Ticket

    Quoting still not working, at least in this thread. Of course bars aren’t ready for streaming despite the counter example that I gave.[emoji849] I’m also sure bars won’t be open tomorrow at 4:30 AM in California… 7:30 AM eastern for Arsenal v. Aston Villa. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    DIRECTV unlikely to keep NFL Sunday Ticket

    It’s not the businesses that aren’t ready for streaming… for soccer, there are a couple of high profile English Premier League games are only available on Peacock every week - Arsenal v City the other day was Peacock only. Any bar that’s going to show MLS (a lesser product than EPL) is going to...
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    Disney drops 2.4 million streaming subs

    Ok, so Tapatalk and the forum aren’t playing nice when it comes to a quotes… at least in my iPhone[emoji37] Anyhow, if you think sports teams revenues are going to go down, they never have. So, that would definitely buck history. I would bet that they will increase greater than inflation in the...
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    Disney drops 2.4 million streaming subs

    Yes, there will be a market adjustment for sports… it will cost more[emoji849] The RSNs on aggregate are some of the highest rated (most viewers) networks on cable. Somewhere around 2-3 million viewers a night if you add the average viewers for each MLB team on their RSN. That’s why they are on...
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