The main issue is that Amazon could of handled the Business side, it is Restaurants and the like are not ready for the streaming world and they need to be,.
No, they found a way to do it better and cheaper.
The Sat Side will go down, no more Satellites being launched, no new new equipment being designed.
We have all read the FORMER owner’s claims. Fact if DirecTV was originally priced out as a service for rural America. The original investors thought it could take the place of the BUD niche. No one foresaw it being the fastest consumer product roll out in history.
Point is, it still works on a cost basis just for rural folks and to provide sports to the public house segment. Therefore, DirecTV will continue to exist, and to launch replacement sats, for many decades to come.
As far as equipment, waiting on someone to tell me the new features that the current DirecTV boxes lack that they wish they would design in the new ones. Fact is, they have perfected it.
Anyway, most of the do-dad features are for home use. Most bars have very old equipment. All they want to do is set the box on a channel and play the game. They don’t record, time shift, use the apps, They just show ball games.
But this is not ST , this is a deal with Amazon for TNF and will be a moot point if Apple gets ST.
You might wish to read the article. DirecTV almost certainly will provide both TNF and ST, no matter which company gets ST, to the public house segment.
Hell, Stranger Things Crashed Netflix on opening night, and thats One feed.
Think what Might happen when they try to do an Opening week at the same time.
I tried watching Amazons MLB this year, thats Just a Friday night ... it was terrible, audio and video issues every few minutes ... no it was not an internet connection, I'm running 200 mg, thye say you can stream 4k with 20.
Excellent points. This fall, IMHO, will be when everybody learns just how far from ready the internet is. And remember TNF is one, the lowest rated, game. Multiply by 15 games, all at once, and you start crashing all over. Its just not ready.
That is Apple’s MLB, Amazon has TNF and all of last year there was not one problem.
Massive issues, as I linked to the last time you said this.
There are about 1,300 BWW locations. How much revenue will making TNF available via satellite bring to Amazon?
The author was just using BWW as an example. Multiply it times every other such chain and then by all the bars and such in the country.
Many, probably most, just are not ready to stream 15 videos all at once. Most don’t wish to be, since a technology already exists to serve their needs.
Maybe, what, $1-2 million, probably less.
Understand they will lose money on this deal. They need the public house segment badly. And, again, BWW was just an example, its every one of these places.
DirecTV is going to take a cut. Amazon is paying over $1 billion a year for TNF.
I don’t know. DirecTV might take a small cut, or it could just view it the way it views ST. As something it has that the customer must first buy the predicate to get.
In other words DirecTV gets all the advantages of being a (the for many businesses) source for ST and TNF, without paying for it. Win.
DirecTV has had over a year to get a deal done with Amazon. What motivation does Amazon have to do a deal? If getting TNF into BWW via satellite mattered to the NFL, don’t you think they would have insisted on it as part of their deal with Amazon?
No they just have the sense to know that Amazon will make a deal. As predicted.
My prediction is that BWW will figure out how to stream the games pretty quickly.
The owners of BWW disagree. As to the MILLIONS of other such places.
Commercial high speed internet is alot more expensive than residential high speed internet...the ROI is not there for most small bars and restaraunts..even the bigger ones usually dont have wifi for customers..just credit card machines and such..thus amazon figured out
Exactly. Everyone wants to spend everyone else’s money. Fact is sat delivered sports WORKS, economically, for the millions of public houses in this country.
Its more than that..but thats probably their biggest concern..streaming in general isn't allowed in commercial settings..no way to enforce contractual agreements..err ctoo much pirating
Excellent point. Without getting deep into that, there are over a MILLION bars in this country, and MANY are quiet private places where strangers stand out. Strangers like spies from ASCAP.
With DirecTV, that really isn’t an issue. However a smart TV is a smart TV.
Its in my link..sports broadcasting act of 1961
The people that get screwed by the OTA requirement being as they are fans in secondary cities. The SBA only requires the games be shown OTA in the actual city (with an exception for Milwaukee relative to Green Bay). So if, say the Commanders are on MNF or TNF, it will be OTA in DC. But not in Richmond, the Tidewater, Roanoke, Tri-Cities, etc.
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Anyway, what is left?
It seems pretty certain that the public house segment is going to be handled (exclusively??) by DirecTV. Both for TNF and ST. Will DirecTV likewise become a reseller for home accounts? And again, exclusively?
The big issue will be just how many failures TNF will see this fall. And will the NFL require a fix.
