Recent content by Bilbo1

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...

Most people have replaced analog TVs with TVs with digital tuners. Peak cable coincided with the digital transition. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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...

Ah, ok, just Peacock Premium. Mostly use it for EPL games. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...