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  1. DIRECTV Programming
    Note how people who have DirecTV (you don't) were talking about the Sports Pack (you don't have it) and its future. But you, as always, have to, yet again, post your theories on the coming death of cable (word used like normal people use it). Every thread is not about you and your choices...
  2. DIRECTV Programming
    OK, whatever. Getting the same channels and paying for them to YTTV is TOTALLLLLLLLLLLY different from paying the cable company for them. TOTALLLLLLLY different. I had a teacher who said, correctly, that "the Appalachian mountains are not mountains, they are all hills". 100% correct, and...
  3. DIRECTV Programming
    Your link says otherwise. As pretty much always. Internet delivered linear TV is, umm, linear TV. Not very good linear TV, but still linear TV. Leaving people who truly cord switched, paying only for the non-linear pay services. Most of whom cord switched because they don't like sports...
  4. Sports Programming and Events
    I really don't think calling long time posters "idiotic" is really the thing to do. Very coinvent to switch from a discussion of YTTV to its parent company. Yes, its parent company is profitable. And? The growth of YTTV is as simple to explain as it is irrelevant to the discussion. At one...
  5. Internet Streaming Services
    This really should not surprise anyone. YTTV is aimed at a different demographic. The only sad thing is people take the social media to b**** about it, rather than get rid of it and get a service that has the programs they want.
  6. Sports Programming and Events
    I'm sorry you don't like math. Pulling numbers one would "like" to pay for something, and playing the "they are all millionaires and billionaires" card is nice. It just doesn't answer the question. Reality is that RSN money has paid for the production costs (salaries mostly) of baseball...
  7. DIRECTV Programming
    IMHO, - I never really got a lot out of watching other people's RSNs, as far as the actual content, not the "blacked out" major sports. Most of it was what I used to call "fox filler" back when Fox owned it. Cheaply made hunting and fishing shows, golf tips, not much. Occasionally a HS or...
  8. Sports Programming and Events
    Yes they are. Minor league players are hardly paid anything. And, what they do get, isn't from the revenue the MiLB teams generate (that goes to the owner of the MiLB team) but directly from the MLB parent team. In other words, and MiLB owner pays ZERO to the players. So, yes, they can give...
  9. Sports Programming and Events
    And, by baseball's own admission, the LOSE money at that. The in-market streaming is a stop gap, to prevent fans from being disenfranchised as the Bally boondoggle is sorted out. That is NOT the price they will have to charge. In fact, Manfred has stated that MLB (meaning the big clubs) is...
  10. Sports Programming and Events
    The numbers come from Nielsen. Its, depending on the team, somewhere between 3 and 7% of people. That's all. The math is inescapable. 7%. Currently the Cardinals, for example, get about $100M/year. So "$20 or $30" won't cut it. More like $100 to $150. Reality. Basic math.
  11. Sports Programming and Events
    Not all things that are "possible" are PROFITABLE. The math (ratings) is pure science. To make a profit on in-market broadcasting, the amount they have to charge more than the average person is willing, or in most cases, even able to pay. Pure math. Ratings times dollars. So it will be...
  12. Sports Programming and Events
    Substitute "nothing is" for "sports are" and you begin to see the future of television.
  13. Internet Streaming Services
    Not really surprising. Marchand and Orand yesterday dropped the number of $2B, that is billion with a B, as the loss YT is taking on this venture, with way less than 2M subscribers. Remember all the foolish predictions that there were millions and millions of people, sitting around, filled...
  14. Sports Programming and Events
    First, of course, what about all the things on a streaming service you don't want, but still pay for? This is different exactly how? But more importantly, yes, I paid a few pennies for things I didn't want, so did everyone else and, writ large across the whole country, EVERYONE'S type of...
  15. Internet Streaming Services
    Yes, to the tiny subscriber base. Imagine if the crazy predictions that "everyone" will just use streaming within a few years, were actually possible. It is just not ready for prime time.
  16. Sports Programming and Events
    Actually, the owner of the Penguins owns NESN (and the Red Sox). It is impossible to buy rights from yourself. Any observer of the death of the RSN understands that DirecTV, which is TV for those who want every thing, AKA luxury TV, are going to ride the RSN pony as long as they can...
  17. Internet Streaming Services
    Business discussion aside, this is as predicted, and simply understanding of science tells us why. Think of a linear distribution model, be its cable or, the best analogy, DBS. It is like the rain. The rain falls all over the region. It doesn't matter if there are 10 people with buckets to...
  18. Sports Programming and Events
    All RSNs are failing. Some will just take longer than others to run out of money, depending on market size, management, relationship to the teams, etc. There seems to be no model that will allow a person to see his home team, every night, (and, since all the out-of-market packages are, is...
  19. Internet Streaming Services
    Umm, reset your google machine. That Amazon the company. Amazon's streaming, despite the funny money accounting, still loses money. It always will.
  20. Sports Programming and Events
    Again, everyone who wants to go to the estrogen soaked streaming only option, has. The linear bundle continues to be MEGA profitable for Disney. Streaming continues to lose billions. Everyone has chosen. Nothing is going to change. Everyone has chosen. UNLESS, Disney is actually stupid...
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