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ELA

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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2018, 01:57:17 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on August 10, 2018, 01:19:05 PM
I cut the cord. I watch sports.


Bwar put me up to it. He watches sports.


You know us, right?


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I didn't say everyone who watches sports hasn't cut the cord; I said everyone I know who doesn't watch sports has.
The only people, myself included, who are hanging on, are doing so for live sports.
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2018, 01:59:26 PM »
Well, to be fair, the sports fans are the ones that lagged on cord-cutting, because there weren't any options until SlingTV got ESPN.

Even still, I know one friend who keeps DirecTV because he can't get NFL Sunday Ticket anywhere else. He lives out here in San Diego and wants to watch Da Bears, so it's not like we get to see those games on broadcast very often. 

And now, I'm not sure I'd call what many of us doing to be true "cord-cutting". We're switching from Cable/Satellite Live TV packages to cheaper streaming Live TV packages. We're substituting one cord for another, and overall getting a better deal. 
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2018, 03:16:29 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on August 10, 2018, 01:59:26 PM
Well, to be fair, the sports fans are the ones that lagged on cord-cutting, because there weren't any options until SlingTV got ESPN.

Even still, I know one friend who keeps DirecTV because he can't get NFL Sunday Ticket anywhere else. He lives out here in San Diego and wants to watch Da Bears, so it's not like we get to see those games on broadcast very often.

And now, I'm not sure I'd call what many of us doing to be true "cord-cutting". We're switching from Cable/Satellite Live TV packages to cheaper streaming Live TV packages. We're substituting one cord for another, and overall getting a better deal.

This is me. I live in Phoenix and me being a Browns Fan and the wife being a Patriots fan (though she get more on regular channels games than I do) we are not getting our games on the local channels. We have to have Directv or go to a sports bar.
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2018, 09:04:36 PM »
it's about finding the programming you want or need and then paying for it

there are MANY more Comcast customers that don't give a hoot about BTN than comcast subscribers that want or need BTN

Obviously, Comcast is losing customer base because of $$$ and is looking to cut costs on the channels that they can afford to cut
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2018, 09:13:47 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 10, 2018, 09:04:36 PM
it's about finding the programming you want or need and then paying for it

there are MANY more Comcast customers that don't give a hoot about BTN than comcast subscribers that want or need BTN

Obviously, Comcast is losing customer base because of $$$ and is looking to cut costs on the channels that they can afford to cut
That's true for any given singular channel though.  HGTV just doesn't cost that much.  Now if they could pool more FOX resources together, namely FNC, they'd have some real leverage.
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« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2018, 09:31:32 PM »
that's why the cable companies and satellite providers and huge content providers such as ESPN/ABC and Fox lobby against ala carte programming

and not just choosing what channels you want to subscribe to, but what individual shows/programs/games

having me pay to never watch HGTV and FNC while paying to watch every time slot on BTN is a known equation that they don't want to jeopardize.

They fear the unknown.  If I am just willing to pay for Husker games and not other Big Ten games or Clemson vs Alabama games then the cost could rise to the point that I never pay them and simply go to the bar
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2018, 09:38:42 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2018, 10:02:30 PM »
the money train keeps chugging
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« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2018, 10:05:54 PM »
Both parties are doing fine.
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« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2018, 10:07:28 PM »
very predictable. sports are the one thing people actually watch live anymore, and aside from NFL, college football is the 2nd most watched sport. football is still far and away the most popular game in America.

No way they weren't going to get a deal done before the start of the season.
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« Reply #24 on: August 24, 2018, 10:16:04 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on August 24, 2018, 10:07:28 PM
very predictable. sports are the one thing people actually watch live anymore, and aside from NFL, college football is the 2nd most watched sport. football is still far and away the most popular game in America.

No way they weren't going to get a deal done before the start of the season.
That was always my argument, that the only young people who hadnt cut the cord yet we're sports fans.
Then I read YES had the same mentality and Comcast kept them off air in NYC for almost two years.  That made me nervous
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2018, 10:19:25 PM »
Quote from: ELA on August 24, 2018, 10:16:04 PM
That was always my argument, that the only young people who hadnt cut the cord yet we're sports fans.
Then I read YES had the same mentality and Comcast kept them off air in NYC for almost two years.  That made me nervous
football is a loooooooooot more popular and a lot more watched on live television than baseball.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/224864/football-americans-favorite-sport-watch.aspx
"American football, under attack from critics in recent years, has lost some of its popularity but is still the champion of U.S. spectator sports -- picked by 37% of U.S. adults as their favorite sport to watch. The next-most-popular sports are basketball, favored by 11%, and baseball, favored by 9%.
The 9% of Americans who mention baseball as their favorite sport to watch is the lowest percentage for the sport since Gallup first asked the question in 1937. Americans named baseball as the most popular sport in 1948 and 1960, but football claimed the top spot in 1972 and has been the public's favorite ever since."

Baseball is slowly dying. Thankfully. If there is one sport I absolutely hate, it's baseball. It's not even a sport imo. It's a game.
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2018, 10:44:23 PM »
Baseball remains a regional sport and local TV ratings are just fine, when you consider a team provides 163 games of content vs. 12.

So far through 2018 Yankees games are drawing the highest average viewership of any program, sports or otherwise, cable or broadcast, in primetime, in the NYC market.  BTN carries regionally poulat mod tower games.  If Comcast can reject the highest watched live programming in the nation's largest market, on weekday primetime, I think they can hold out against 12 Saturdays worth of mediocre regionally appealing football, and mostly replays and Olympic sports.
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Re: Comcast vs. Big Ten
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2018, 10:45:45 PM »
I'd guess Comcast negotiated a better rate

knocking off a quarter per month per subscriber is worth the bluffing and shuffling
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