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You don't need to activate the box on your account to connect it and force the software download.

Every once in a while you'd hear about some place getting sued for showing NFLST illegally, where the owner was bringing receivers from a home account or something like that. Since the places doing that weren't the profitable ones that can afford paying for NFLST legitimately, it invariably...

So you just choose whatever gives you the best value, whether you want it or not? If they had $300 hair extensions for 100,000 points that's what you're getting because it is an even better deal than YTTV?

Sure, but that's just people who are changing their delivery method for their linear TV, no different than switching from cable to satellite or vice versa 10 years ago. Current MVPDs have a cost advantage over cable/satellite because they don't have to negotiate with local stations for...

Does it matter? Who is going to subscribe to YTTV for the football season only to get the lower price for NFLST, when the "full price" of NFLST saves money over getting four months of YTTV?

I always figured a single team package for half the cost of the full package would be about right. Sure a lot of people who are now paying $300 but really only care about one team would downgrade, but the cheaper price would bring in people who would be unwilling to pay $300.

Your proof was "a rumor on reddit" and you want ME to prove it to you?? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Show something real that claims Google can replace every single commercial on the Fox & CBS feeds.

No, Google has the exact same rights Directv had and exercised. They can replace the 2 minutes of local commercial time with their own commercials. That's the time that local stations typically run ads for a local car dealer or whatever. Google did not win the right to replace national Fox and...

Directv also had 2 million NFLST subscribers when they had 22 million satellite subscribers, so that 2 million was the upper bound for the number of NFLST subscribers on Directv. There are simply a limited number of people willing to pay $300/yr to watch out of market games, when they have at...

Uh, I just showed you the math above. You most certainly can if you lose money on something else. Did you miss addition and subtraction in second grade?

If your profit was $1 and you made $1.50 from product A and lost $0.50 from product B, then you made 150% of your profit from product A.

Apple isn't making money from selling your personal information for ads - the only ads they do are in the app store app and I think the stock app. Google makes over 100% of its profit from advertising (because they collectively lose money on everything else, including products like cloud where...

What TV shows you watch and what NFL teams you watch are new data to Google even for people who are already "supplying" them lots of personal data. If I signed up for NFLST they'd get that data from me, but they wouldn't get much of anything else on me since I don't use Android, Chrome, GMail...

What's more it appears to be incredibly terrible math. The seekingalpha article says the assumptions are 1.7 million "new" subscribers to Youtube TV (plus NFLST) and a half million NFLST only subscribers. If you do the math 1.7 million subscribers to Youtube TV at $65/month is $1.326 billion...

Sure, it would work just like changing the channel to that game.

Depending on how they implement it, it might not require any additional bandwidth. If they send you four full HD streams and your set top app combines them that will require 4x bandwidth. They could send four lower quality streams to reduce the bandwidth per stream so it is only a little more...

I saw an article that had some surveys showing that if the price was reduced to $150 that the number of NFLST subscriptions would go up by 94%. Basically double from 2 million to 4 million, at half the price. There are a lot of people who will say they are interested in NFLST, but balk at any...

Why would Dish be interested in that, when they currently have almost zero presence in the bar/restaurant market?

I really doubt they still enforce those rules that were put into place over 30 years ago IIRC. Realistically there aren't any places that only have OTA. If you have cable or satellite you are paying for OTA, and no one is going to care if you choose to get your signals you're legally entitled...

Honestly that's probably a better fit for a tech company than NFLST. The NBA has the youngest audience in major sports in the US, and younger people are the ones who cut the cord first (or never had a cord in the first place)

Not everyone is a big fan of a certain team, they might follow multiple teams or be more of an overall fan (i.e. the kind of people who care more about their fantasy football team than who wins the Super Bowl) Those more casual fans are a good sized chunk of viewership, and while will watch the...

The deals with the networks didn't have the clause that requires NFLST to be charged for, so that will only affect future holders of NFLST rights. The networks probably didn't care about that when Directv had the rights because every Directv subscriber was paying for the local stations so they...

NFLST is just not a big enough deal to the NFL for them to promote it like that. With two million subscribers that is like 2% of the overall NFL fanbase. They just want to cash the check, it is up to whoever buys the rights to try to publicize it.

ESPN has always lowballed rights contracts, a lowball offer from ESPN was why the Big Ten created their own network 15 years ago. The difference is that there are more interested bidders than just ESPN now, so they may need to offer more if they want to win rights over the other networks.

Why do you think it would be "slapped together"? They are just streaming the CBS & Fox productions of the games, they aren't producing them themselves. You think Apple and Amazon need a half year's notice to live stream 8 or 9 events on a Sunday afternoon none of which are likely to have even a...