CBS, Fox contracts with NFL will prevent “significant reduction” in price of Sunday Ticket

[Faceplant]

They don't, IMO, they are going to start being offered by internet providers as part of a package deal. Leading to the possibility of just being bought out. Too many people sharing accounts hurting their revenue, we all do it, but it doesn't help the streamers revenue because they are only a one trick pony.

Yep. Xfinity already pays for my Netflix subscription. Same with Peacock. They hold all of the cards when it comes to content and distribution, and in a lot of cases, there is no viable competition. Starlink will be an interesting competitor once they get rolling in more urban areas.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Report: Google has made a bid for Sunday Ticket - ProFootballTalk

As the football-watching worlds watches and waits for news as to where it will be watching Sunday Ticket in 2023, a new contender for the package has emerged.According to the New York Times, Google has made a bid for the out-of-market service. The games would be streamed through YouTube, which...

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Report: Google has made a bid for Sunday Ticket​

As the football-watching worlds watches and waits for news as to where it will be watching Sunday Ticket in 2023, a new contender for the package has emerged.

According to the New York Times, Google has made a bid for the out-of-market service. The games would be streamed through YouTube, which is owned by Google.

Other bidders include Apple, Amazon, and Disney.

NFL media executive Brian Rolapp told the Times that the league expects to finalize a Sunday Ticket arrangement for 2023 and beyond “in the coming months.”

“A number of companies are in strong position to potentially land Sunday Ticket, but we still have a ways to go in this process,” Rolapp told the Times in a written statement.

The league is hoping to get more than $2.5 billion per year for Sunday Ticket. One report pegged the number as high as $3 billion. Others have suggested that maybe the talks aren’t going well; otherwise, a deal would be done by now.

The Times pins the delay on the league’s ongoing interest in dumping other properties into the transaction, including a piece of NFL Network, the RedZone channel, and NFL+, the league’s new subscription service.

Apple, per the Times, remains the perceived frontrunner. CEO Tim Cook has met with league officials, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, and Patriots owner Robert Kraft regarding Sunday Ticket. The Times writes that Apple “has made winning the package a priority.”

Many would say that any company having the rights other than DirecTV will be a win. That’s the only thing that’s known at this point; after 2022, DirecTV is out. At some point during the 2022 season, we’ll find out who will be in come 2023.

 

[dieterbrock]

Its just crazy to me that Direct tv didnt want to make the streaming option available to all. I cant even imagine how many subscribers they will lose once the ticket is gone. It is expensive, the customer service is deplorable and signal is lost frequently.

 

[OldSchool]

When you get so many wrong it's nice when a prediction comes true, even if it's only partially atm


View: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1551552890057248770


First step to them streaming the Sunday ticket?

 

[dieterbrock]

Not so fast....
Looks like NFL+ is INCREASING the cost for "Gamepass"
$9.95 per month now

NFL enters streaming wars with new NFL+ subscription service

The NFL has officially joined the streaming wars with its own platform.

nypost.com

 

[Flint]

There’s gotta be a significant amount of people who refuse to spend money on the current model just cuz it’s clunky and needlessly expensive. I’ll certainly pay to get exactly what I want like every ram game but I want nothing to do with direct tv. In the long run the money should even out with game by game or team packages shouldn’t it? But the nfl wants those Guaranteed contract numbers.

 

[Mackeyser]

How does Netflix have an advantage here?

They’ve already negotiated with many providers like Comcast and Time/Warner to pay a nominal fee for that same end use mile that you pay for (the big internet companies think it’s a crime to provide any service they can’t charge at least twice for). As the streamscape fractures, it could end up like the same idiotic battles the cable companies had with individual channels…

Since Netflix has already got licensing or more accurately “digital rights of way” negotiated, that’s an advantage. If any streaming service gets big enough, they ISPs can block them until they fork over the fees… can you imagine them blocking Amazon streaming during the NFL preseason? The country would riot

Honestly, these idiot content providers learned absolutely nothing from the idiot RIAA and there’s no Steve Jobs in the room to talk sense to these greedy assholes

Been saying for a decade at least that the NFL needed a streaming platform licensed or owned outright because that was and still is the future.

Heck, Frontier even knows this and only offer their 2Gbps fiber service to internet only households… I could save $130/mo if I could get the wife to kick her Hallmark habit…. (And no, the app isn’t good enough as they don’t put all the Xmas movies on it)

But yeah, I really hope it’s Apple (it won’t be) because the UI will be 100x better than the garbage interfaces Amazon has come out with… and Apple is still a leader in the streaming codec space. Still, I’d gladly pay $200 to have clean access to all NFL games.

 

[Mackeyser]

Yep. Xfinity already pays for my Netflix subscription. Same with Peacock. They hold all of the cards when it comes to content and distribution, and in a lot of cases, there is no viable competition. Starlink will be an interesting competitor once they get rolling in more urban areas.

Nah, Starlink will be garbage in urban areas where the bandwidth will be throttled all to hell. Elon Musk outright said so in a talk about Starlink as it’s meant to service rural areas and areas where it’s inconvenient to bring in a fat internet pipe.

 

[Corbin]

True. I was watching a documentary on why Netflix could be in trouble… it centered around “why do movie companies need a streaming provider? Just become one”. Same argument applies to the NFL.

I hear that argument and movie companies will make a dent with Netflix etc.

However, Netflix starting to make and produce their own shows is good for them, but when they started that all inclusive woke shit to its fullest they really started getting in trouble with people leaving in droves.

 

[Mackeyser]

Just purchased an iPad Pro 12.9” and NFL+ and it works flawlessly… did NOT work with my iPhone XS Max.

Was talking with the Apple guy there and he was saying they’ve been told Apple has already bid $3B for Sunday Ticket which is in the target range for what the NFL was looking for… dunno if they’ll win, but seems they’ve thrown their hat into the ring