Posted on 02/21/2018 5:30:51 AM PST by blam
DirecTV’s “NFL Sunday Ticket” cable package just got more expensive for football fans.
The standard version of the service, which allows subscribers to stream every NFL game, will cost $293.94 for the 2018 NFL season, according to DirecTV’s website. That price marks an increase of about 4% from last season, when the basic version of “NFL Sunday Ticket” cost $281.94.
An upgraded version of the package, which includes the “NFL Red Zone” channel and exclusive fantasy football analysis, will see a price hike to $395.94, up more than 4% compared to last year. The price increases were met with widespread criticism on Twitter, where some subscribers threatened to cancel the service.
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The cable service granted refunds to customers last season after some filed complaints about ongoing player national anthem protests, the Wall Street Journal reported. AT&T did not address the situation at the time.
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Such an odd business model
As their viewership goes to zero, their price will approach infinity in a failed attempt to maintain their revenue stream. It actually amazes me that there are people who will spend that kind of money to watch the scum that make up the NFL.
Exactly what liberals do with taxes as their tax base leaves the state - what else to do but raise taxes on those who (foolishly) remain? Hello New York? Hello California?
Should the government stop providing supporting funds let the National Felon League recoup that loss through the increase in viewer coats. Better yet, let them go broke. I could care less.
“Exactly what liberals do with taxes as their tax base leaves the state - what else to do but raise taxes on those who (foolishly) remain? Hello New York? Hello California?”
Perfect analogy! Here in California, the Sacramento RATs, are scurrying around like a bunch of cats covering $hit, trying to “plug our financial dike (or maybe that should be dyke)!”
PS- Did you see where NY used a photo showing the ongoing construction in Capetown, South Africa in an ad, as proof of the resurgence in growth in their state?
That’s expensive but if you are a fan it’s still a good deal. I don’t follow American football but I buy the MLB package. It costs less than going out to a couple of games.
Good! As viewership drops next year and years thereafter the ticket price will soon be $1000. What a business model!
It’s hard to blame them. This last season has shown that there are still plenty of fools willing to pay out that kind of money for vicarious entertainment.
I had a free season of NFL Sunday Ticket when I signed up with DTV a few years ago. I was still a football fan then, but I really didn’t make much use of it. It had a feature where you could have a bunch of games on one screen, and you could cycle through the audio or go to full screen of the game that interested you. Pretty cool. Problem was, I was not interested in most of the games. I basically only followed the Texas teams and was not interested in every game being played that day.
Seriously? People pay that much to watch football games!
A 60 minute NFL football game takes about 3-1/2 hors to play, and with the clock running most of the time between plays, there is a maximum of 14-15 minutes of actual action on the field ("Action" being defined as starting with the snap and ending with the whistle).
A couple of years ago, I measured the cumulative "action" time during two complete NFL football games. I used a stop watch, which I clicked "ON" at the snap and "OFF" at the whistle. One of the games had only 12 minutes, 36 seconds of action on the field. The second was a bit more "action-packed" - it included 14 minutes, 38 seconds of on-field "action".
Even assuming a more generous average of 15 minutes of on-field action per game, watching a 3-1/2 hour game (210 minutes) means the viewer spends almost 93% of his time watching commercials, watching grown men stand around on a field and/or listening to dumbass announcers blather on about meaningless crap - with an ever-increasing amount of the blather being about "social justice" garbage instead of the actual game.
I watched about a dozen NFL football games this past season including several playoff games and the superbowl. Due to boredom, I found myself 'multi-tasking' during all of them. I may pass on NFL football completely next season, because even setting aside the offensive behavior of a significant number of players, a boredom coefficient of 0.9286 is simply too high.
And, as far as giving DirecTV $300-$400 of my money for NFL "extras", that is never going to happen.
I totally dumped DirecTV over a year ago. Never going either.
I had subscribed to NFL Sunday Ticket from the time that Directv launched it. This past season, I quit watching it after week 6.
I called Directv and told them to remove my name from the “auto-renew” list and that I would NOT be subscribing to that package in the future.
I have a good gut feeling that I am not alone in this.
One major reason college football is so much better viewing experience is every game is available. So if the CBS SEC game of the week is a snoozer then one can simply switch channels to a more exciting game.
I have had “Sunday Ticket” in the past. DO NOT GET IT!
It costs TOO much. It automatically renews. I had to threaten them to get rid of it.
I did the same this past season. The woman on the line asked me why I was getting rid of it and I told her it was specifically because of the protests and the league and owners endorsing it. She did not seem surprised in the slightest.
That’d put food on the table for a month or more.
Yep, sales go down so you increase prices to make up for the revenue decrease.....that never works!
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