The NFL has the most watched product, can set their terms, and the consumer will pay.
PISSED OFF PLAYOFF PING!....................
Not in my house.
There’s talk that some CBS games may air exclusively on Paramount+, and even some on YouTube TV just for Sunday Ticket subscribers.
Price gouging. Pay for cable. Pay for Internet. Then pay for Peacock. Watch more commercials than game time. Screw that.
The earliest “pay TV” included a physical box on top of the set where you could insert coins to pay for the time you wanted to watch TV. Read about it in Popular Electronics type magazines in the 1950s.
But when the real cable tv came in, some purists said “Since we are already paying without even watching anything yet, there should be no reason for commercials now. We paid and the cable companies should take care of their income accordingly.” Didn’t work. We pay whether watching or the set is off and loads and loads of ads are on network tv.
Now the new era of no free tv, no regular cable (cut the cord), pay for everything, and also no free radio soon. Already lost owning your own music on CD or movies and shows on DVDs.
Proof once again if anyone still needs it, that pro sports are run by money and fans don’t have enough to count.
Works in a macroeconomic model, but probably won't happen.
The NFL has the most watched product, can set their terms, and the consumer will pay.
I get pissed that the only game I can’t get is on Fox. I have to watch over the air as I don’t have cable.
More subscriptions, less ownership
When baseball was king. All the games were on local radio, and often on remote stations (Ronald Reagan famously announced games off a telegraph feed in Des Moines, Iowa for the Cubs). Well into the 70s, nearly all the Yankees and Red Sox games were on WPIX and WSBK over the air. All 162 Cubs games were broadcast on WGN.
Baseball, and hockey, and basketball chased the money. Pay cable was a drug that created quick hit of cash . . . at the cost of long-term fan support.
Now, baseball gets worse ratings than the NFL draft and pre-season exhibition games. The number of true “baseball” towns can be counted on one-hand (Boston, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, maybe Los Angeles). Baseball playoffs have been watered down with proliferation, and as the number of games multiplies the ratings for each game dwindles.
The NFL should not stupidly go down the same path.
people, if you don’t have this streaming service, please don’t get it for this football game.....be strong....
People are just mad because they don’t want to have to pay out for another one of their addictions.
Either pay up, or get a hold of the addiction.
American football is not the WWE or English soccer The guy is a spread sheet manager and cares zip about his audience/customers.
Whatever you do, DO NOT
Install a VPN, but if you do install a VPN for other, ahem, reasons, DO NOT
Install U-Block Origin to block pop-up adds, and of course DO NOT
Open a private web browser and search for NFL Reddit Streams, and most definitely DO NOT
Select one of the dozens of overseas stream aggregators that allow you to view the game for free.
That would be illegal, and would rob such a fine, definitely non-oligarchical company of your cash that they so richly deserve.
Shame on you for even considering it.
My problem with Peacock is Morning Joe. Otherwise, it is pretty good.
And, now Peacock is offering a full year’s subscription for $30.
No surprise, here. But, I’ll keep my money, thanks...
I hope they do a better job on pro football than they do B1G sports. The production quality of the college sports is really weak. Kind of like college media department level.