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One thing about NFL rights that I haven't really seen discussed is they're so regional, and that doesn't seem to make much sense anymore, at least in big cities
by dcosson 10y ago
One thing about NFL rights that I haven't really seen discussed is they're so regional, and that doesn't seem to make much sense anymore, at least in big cities. Having lived in NY and SF everyone I know who's into football has a different favorite team, since they grew up in a different place.
But the broadcast networks can all only show regional games in each area. There's no way to subscribe to all games from 1 team because the networks all get exclusive rights to different games. In the US there's not even a good way to subscribe to all games on a single service other than I think direct tv which is a pain in the ass and doesn't work for apartment buildings. This doesn't solve ESPN's problem, but for the NFL offering these two services on demand at different price points seems like such an obvious way to boost viewership.
- djrogers 10y agoThe NFL Season Ticket package has been decoupled from DirecTV for a couple of years now - you can watch your non-local games on pretty much any streaming device.
- dcosson 10y agoI think that's Sunday Ticket, and it's only sunday day games? So if your team is playing Monday night, you'll still need an ESPN subscription, Sunday night you need cable or an antenna that gets NBC, Thursday night you need twitter or cable or an antenna. I think even Sunday day games in your local area you might not get, so you need basic cable/antenna for that. And not sure if you can watch many of these with a delay/on-demand. Why can't there be one service that I can just pay for and turn on at any time after it airs, like HBO Now?
- kodablah 10y agoI have a streaming device called "uverse", some have fios, some cable, some dish network, etc. Why can't these devices show it?
- infosample 10y ago> The NFL Season Ticket package has been decoupled from DirecTV If you can prove you can't get DirecTV at your residence. Otherwise you have to get NFL Game Pass and watch the game replay later (usually the next day), not live. http://www.nfl.com/watch-nfl-live http://www.nfl.com/watch-nfl-live