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I stopped watching a couple of years ago but I assume they're still doing this: dealing out every game to a different network. You needed like 4 sports subscrip
by svachalek 1y ago
I stopped watching a couple of years ago but I assume they're still doing this: dealing out every game to a different network. You needed like 4 sports subscriptions just to be able to watch the season, sometimes even to watch the championship. For me that was the bridge too far.
- bluedino 1y agoNFL isn't far behind NFL Network, ESPN, Prime, Peacock, YouTube...
- rkomorn 1y agoAll that mainly because some streaming services are willing to pay a more competitive amount of money for single (albeit national) weekly game broadcasts to sweeten their offering and get more subscribers. Of course the NFL isn't gonna turn down $1B per year from Amazon for TNF. They get ~$2B from CBS and Fox each for the combined 10 Sunday games, then another couple billion from NBC for one Sunday night game, and another couple billion from ESPN for Monday night. I think it's unlikely a single broadcaster would spend $12+B/year for exclusive rights to all games.
- prodigycorp 1y agoA large portion of NFL games can be viewed on network TV. The same cannot be said for the NBA.
- rkomorn 1y ago"for now" seems like a reasonable thing to add to that sentence. The number of games you can watch on network TV is decreasing slowly but steadily.