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I stopped my cable subscription a couple of years ago. I bought an antenna for live sports. I watch football, and my team is always broadcast on a local channel

by dpark 11y ago

I stopped my cable subscription a couple of years ago. I bought an antenna for live sports. I watch football, and my team is always broadcast on a local channel (I believe that it is always like that for NFL, because they know that they need to ensure their core fans can watch the game). I don't watch other sports much so I don't know how well this strategy would work.

douche 11y ago
You can have local blackouts if they don't sell enough of the seats in the stadium. It doesn't happen a lot, unless you live in the Jacksonville market.
- dpark 11y ago
  Wow, that sucks. I didn't realize that. Is that supposed to encourage people to go to the stadium? It seems like a good way to just drive away fans.
  - Retra 11y ago
    That's just what you do when you have a monopoly. Your customers can't go anywhere else to get your product, so it doesn't matter as much how you treat them.
    - dpark 11y ago
      It's a monopoly without lockin, though. It's entirely possible for customers to just stop being customers, which seems like the likely result of abusive behavior.
      - Retra 11y ago
        The same could be said of religion. But people seem to have a pretty strong need to participate in that kind of thing. They often make it a very strong part of their identity. So it's not entirely unlike an addiction.
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  No longer applicable. From Wiki[1]: On March 23, 2015, the NFL's owners voted to suspend the blackout rules for the 2015 NFL season, meaning that all games will be televised in their home markets, regardless of ticket sales It's not coming back. There was a lot of political pressure for this to happen, and the NFL isn't totally tone deaf. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_television_blackout_policies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_telev...

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I stopped my cable subscription a couple of years ago. I bought an antenna for live sports. I watch football, and my team is always broadcast on a local channel

by dpark 11y ago

douche 11y ago
You can have local blackouts if they don't sell enough of the seats in the stadium. It doesn't happen a lot, unless you live in the Jacksonville market.
- dpark 11y ago
  Wow, that sucks. I didn't realize that. Is that supposed to encourage people to go to the stadium? It seems like a good way to just drive away fans.
  - Retra 11y ago
    That's just what you do when you have a monopoly. Your customers can't go anywhere else to get your product, so it doesn't matter as much how you treat them.
    - dpark 11y ago
      It's a monopoly without lockin, though. It's entirely possible for customers to just stop being customers, which seems like the likely result of abusive behavior.
      - Retra 11y ago
        The same could be said of religion. But people seem to have a pretty strong need to participate in that kind of thing. They often make it a very strong part of their identity. So it's not entirely unlike an addiction.
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  No longer applicable. From Wiki[1]: On March 23, 2015, the NFL's owners voted to suspend the blackout rules for the 2015 NFL season, meaning that all games will be televised in their home markets, regardless of ticket sales It's not coming back. There was a lot of political pressure for this to happen, and the NFL isn't totally tone deaf. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_television_blackout_policies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_telev...