Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

NBC Bragged About Streaming Numbers for Peacock-Only Playoff Game, and Fans Didn’t Want to Hear It
Sports Illustrated ^ | January 14, 2024 | KARL RASMUSSEN

Posted on 01/14/2024 8:48:58 PM PST by Steven Scharf

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-93 next last
To: organicchemist

Need a Hank, Wallace hit?
Med is so messed up I can’t keep track of it.


61 posted on 01/15/2024 6:04:27 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: T.B. Yoits

Yeah, I’ve seen that photo before. I would suggest to those ‘brothers’ go back to Ethiopia and see how much money you can make playing foosball there.


62 posted on 01/15/2024 6:08:47 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Steven Scharf
Playoff game? What playoff game? NFL? Oh, thats right. The rich prima dona whiny ingrates.
63 posted on 01/15/2024 6:51:58 AM PST by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TomGuy

They more and better content.


64 posted on 01/15/2024 6:52:39 AM PST by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: thegagline

Several years ago I got hooked on pro rugby from the UK that was regularly shown on satellite. Alas, it now requires a subscription.

Imagine football played in soccer uniforms with 15 per side with very limited stoppages in play. Players play both defense and offense since the ball can change hands in the blink of an eye.

Only one ref on the field, two on the sidelines and one ‘up in the booth’. If there’s a questionable play the ref asks to see it replayed on the big screen. Both teams and all the fans can watch the replay and since the ref is miked up, they can hear the conversation.

And in international games the players sing their national anthem enthusiastically.


65 posted on 01/15/2024 8:16:03 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: hanamizu
And in international games the players sing their national anthem enthusiastically.

I love watching The All-Blacks do "The Haka".


66 posted on 01/15/2024 8:17:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: Steven Scharf

Today any hot cable show wil move spin-offs etc to streaming on a related platform for extra $$

Yellowstone for example

First sporting event I’ve seen do it

We had peacock already

It sucks


67 posted on 01/15/2024 8:22:57 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hanamizu

When I was an instructor at UNC I’d attended some rugby club games for the “respectable” day drinking.


68 posted on 01/15/2024 8:26:27 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

Acorn has some good stuff show. I started one show, said not worth a subscription and searched for other shows on Acorn. By the 3d one I got a subscription. Lots of british, European Australian and and New Zealand cop shows.


69 posted on 01/15/2024 8:55:40 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: Texas resident

Just wait a couple of hours (dire fan) or the next morning (average fan) and watch it on YouTube.


70 posted on 01/15/2024 9:09:44 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ThePatriotsFlag

Usually the NFL puts out their highlights about an hour after the game finishes, so I just watch that.

I find it excruciating now to sit through a whole game with all the TV timeouts and woke ads and insidip commentary from female sideline reporters.


71 posted on 01/15/2024 9:11:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: Steven Scharf

Press release means nothing. Success will be measured by number of new subscriptions and future retention percentage of new subscribers as measured against cost to host game.


72 posted on 01/15/2024 9:15:22 AM PST by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steven Scharf

I wonder how many computer savvy people watched the game via a bootleg channel for free. I know of two.


73 posted on 01/15/2024 9:55:49 AM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

GREED, GREED, GREED.

And may it lead to even FURTHER decline of the nfl.


74 posted on 01/15/2024 9:57:02 AM PST by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: Steven Scharf

i watched Yellowstone for 4 seasons on Direct TV my regular service. they also ran it on Paramount + which I subscribe to for other shows. The fifth and last season they switched it to Peacock. No thank you. I am not switching and changing streaming for a program or woke sports.


75 posted on 01/15/2024 10:13:29 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stationkeeper

income, 23 million times $6


76 posted on 01/15/2024 10:18:10 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: PhineasSpear
And may it lead to even FURTHER decline of the nfl.

I think the NFL is forgetting where their bread is buttered. Their appeal is that every man could relate to the sport and watch it on TV while drinking bud light (a joke, I know). But if you change that formula that's working, you're a fool.

77 posted on 01/15/2024 10:21:52 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

sideline reporting needs to go awaya. I am sure the league and the NCAA forces the coachesd to answer innane questions even as the game is being played.

Coach what will you do on defense to stop the Tide from scoring in the second half. We have to get back to basics and play our game. Thank you coach.


78 posted on 01/15/2024 10:28:21 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: coalminersson

“I spoke with Coach X at halftime and he told me that in order to win the game we have to play better in the second half...”

Gee, thanks for that wonderful insight, Toots!


79 posted on 01/15/2024 10:36:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: PhineasSpear

Networks now cater to the female audience. Note the products the ads are touting now during football games versus back then.


80 posted on 01/15/2024 10:39:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-93 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson