One thing for sure, it will be spread out over a dozen streaming services that cost from $5.99 - $20.99 each so that they can afford to pay players 50 million a year.
The whole point of $100 a month services is to take television to elites. Many teams are going to local broadcast stations for their local broadcasts.
Well, we’ve come a long way from the old days. I remember the NBC game of the week on Saturdays, with Curt Gowdy and Pee Wee Reese. And then after Sandy Koufax retired, he joined those two for the game of the week.
And then Jim Simpson and Tony Kubek broadcast the backup game of the week, which was shown nationally in case the game of the week was rained out; then they had another game to show.
I’ve heard some teams are facing financial problems. We never see financial statements from teams so who knows.
But I’m sure paying some players in the tens of millions of dollars every single year, has got hurt the bottom line of those teams. They can only raise ticket prices so much. They can only extract so much money out of broadcasting rights.
I know some of some people who are big baseball fans, but they have not gotten into all this streaming., and paying for different services just to watch the games. They just catch the highlights on youtube.