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Do what? A large publicly traded company is investing in the future of not only linear television, but linear television delivered via satellite. Why didn't they just google up some junk websites like statistia and then project that the number of people who will leave linear TV will continue...

This is, well, stupid. Many people don't even know that DirecTV has a streaming option. DirecTV Stream was a good way to advertise that it does, although I would have come up with something a bit more flashy, like DirecTV Megaplex, or DirecTV The Next Generation, or some other nonsense. I...

Yes. I have an unusual package (landlord pays the bill, its somewhat like the “Choice” package, but has some different channels in or out) but the app gets me more regular channels and all the premiums.

A common misconception. CSPAN receives no government money at all. Rather cable and satellite companies (that is the “C” and the “S” in the name) fund it as a public service.

Exactly. For the purposes of this thread (which is titled "Bally's Sports") streaming just doesn't feed the bulldog. Just a very few weekend games on the "Big 4" networks. Among the CONTENT I want is the full range of sports, provided by my Bally's local, the ESPNs, the Foxes, CBSSN, USA...

I'm sure they are. Army-Navy stores did really well in 46 and 47. Then they ran out of surplus. Certainly you can squeeze the last drop out of a lemon for a long time. Somebody watches Andy Grifith to this day. But its not the same. Really? All I see as "originals" are filmed shows...

What? Can you bottom feed some reruns and remixes of the wonderful content that the wonderful fat bundle system has produced, on things like STIRR or Pluto? Yes. For now. When you have used all of that up? No $$ to make more. Because the $$ needed to produce any one type of content...

And thus protecting the consumer and filling the system with CONTENT. Every person pays a fair price for all that content. Understanding that in an anti-consumer ALC system, most content simply would never be produced, as the number of people willing to pay full price for any one thing is so...

$15/month as a premium will not cover the money that Sinclair (and the other RSN owners) owe the teams under the contracts signed in a bygone era. Sinclair estimates that $39/month is what it would need to get in an ALC system. Yet more proof, as if any were necessary, why the traditional...

“Footage” and the rights to broadcast it in particular locations and circumstances are two totally different concepts. YES and/or the Yankees can own all the “footage” they wish. They cannot show it outside of their agreed upon market region. MLB, as a collective, owns all out of market...

The teams are in long term contracts with the RSNs. The RSNs produce the games for showing in market to linear subscribers and then MLB uses their coverage OUT OF MARKET for both linear (MLBEI) and non-linear (MLB.TV) customers. Who owns the remaining rights? Which is to say the rights to...

This gets a little complicated. Bally’s (Sinclair) and the other RSNs clearly have the right to traditional linear presentation (i.e. via cable, dish or a linear streaming alternative like DirecTV Stream) of MLB games in-market. They also clearly have the right to stream in-market to linear...

Yep

In the pre-season, NFLN does the same thing that MLBN and NHLN do. It takes a local broadcast, in this case of the R*****s @ Patriots, and shows it OUT OF MARKET on 212. 212-1, will have the local broadcast of another game, in this case Steelers @ Eagles, for the New England and Washington...

A “chance”. More like a mortal lock.

It is certainly good to see Sinclair fined. If the FCC would just enforce the clear black letter law that prohibits Sinclair from owing more than one major network affiliate in a market, it would then not place providers in the position of losing 2 or in some cases 3 networks all at once, it...

And, just like that my H24-700 has all of its logos back, including newly renamed channels like Bally’s and News Nation. AFAI can see EVERY channel has a logo, a situation that never was before as there were always a handful of new or renamed channels with just generic letters. Weird.

The Primestar scam was NOT DBS and thus NOT a “mini-dish”. It was just another of Big Cable’s anti-consumer frauds. The founders of the wonderful COMPETITION to the monopolist cable bandits were, if you go back far enough, General Motors, Stanley Hubbard, and Charlie Ergen. None of whom...

Yes, of course, the Primestar scam was the work of the crooks at Big Cable. When you called to cancel the cable, or even to complain about their horrid service, they paid the CSRs to try to sell you on the Primestar scam. It wasn’t DBS, of course. DBS was started to be a BETTER alternate to...

Yes. Just like the truthful ad DirecTV states (you don’t think the low life class action lawyers and the state AGs would let them by with it otherwise) 1% of the time. Because DirecTV has 99% signal reliability.

Rain fade, as we all know, happens far less than 1% of the time. Understand where Big Cable was and how it came to be. CATV. Rural people could not get TV, so some crook started a CATV company. The mantra and the motto from day one was to provide the least possible service at the highest...

The industry is in a different place than 2005. People know about the technology, don’t fall for Big Cable’s lies about “rain fade” and other such nonsense. Local channels have been rolled out for 99% of the country (used to be a big issue in DBS’s early days and in the BUD days). The...

Correct. The two stories that I think are significant recently are the NHL signing with Turner, and the shutdown of NBCSN and moving that sports material to USA. And I should also mention the conversion of WGN into a political commentary channel. What does this have in common? For the...

Certainly. The difference is replicability. For decades the time waste material such as watch other people cook, poorly researched documentaries, etc. was just "free" (included in basic cable/dish, which "everybody" had). Put it behind a paywall? Well 15M is a nice start, but time will...

Here is how the capital markets work. There are essentially two ways to fund and own large businesses. One is the stock market. The problem with the stock market is that self-appointed empty suit "analysists" decide that this or that is "trending". These are the types of people who tell...