But you can watch ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU with streaming services vs traditional cable/satellite providers. Pretty much anything available via the traditional route is available via streaming or "cutting the cord" as many call it (correct or not).
DIRECTV unlikely to keep NFL Sunday Ticket
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Its pretty easy to "move" with YTTV to a market that has what you want as far as NFL teams. I did it this past weekend to get the Pats/Dolphins, and as soon as it was over, I changed my current viewing area back to my home location.
Most streaming services outsource the business sales. Joe Hand Promotions handles a good chunk of them. ESPN+, UFC, PGA Tour Live, major DAZN fights etc are all on DirecTV for commercial sales.
If Amazon does get Sunday Ticket I can still see them feeding businesses via DirecTV (with no residential sales). Streaming 8+ games at the same time would require a very good internet connection, have to be wired etc. Bars pay big bucks for NFL ST and no way Amazon wouldn’t want that money.
The only major commercial sports streaming that does stream is Peacock. The Soccer games are on “Pub Pass” and uses a Fire TV, which was ironic as peacock itself wasn’t on Fire TV for a long time. The smaller ones may offer streaming too but the major players definitely outsource and use DirecTV.
Should have a better idea next year with Thursday Night Football on Amazon. No way that is not offered as a pay service to bars. My $$$ is they use DirecTV but with it being only one game at a time could see them test the waters with streaming.
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It is quite easy to enforce, because bars that have NFLST will advertise it. Directv only knows where receivers are if they're connected to the internet, which is not required.
Nothing stops someone from bringing their home receivers to their bar so they can pay $300 for NFLST instead of thousands, other than the threat of being sued for six figures if they're caught. And a few stupid bar owners are caught doing this EVERY YEAR, and most of them end up going out of business from a fine of that size.
Unless you carry NFLST but think you can keep it secret by never advertising that fact you're going to get caught. Even if you don't advertise it you can't be sure you won't get caught. You just need one angry customer or upset competitor to blow the whistle.
Only via services that are essentially "cable TV over the internet" like Sling TV or AT&T TV/Directv Stream. I don't consider people who go that route "cord cutters" because they are watching the same old cable/satellite packages via a different delivery method.
If you don't subscribe to something like that, you can't watch everything on ESPN because ESPN+ doesn't carry everything that's on ESPN's broadcast networks.
I do see the streaming programs on Directv you mentioned above now, and the boxing events from the premiums are there, too. Those events are on channels in the 9530s. Good call with Thursday Night Football, we'll see what happens there.
Not really. Many neighborhood bars do no advertising at all. The patrons simply expect what they expect.
Technically, correct. But the dish itself is a physical thing, a known item. A smart TV? PROVE I streamed the game last Thrusday.
Yeah, selling drugs is illegal too. How is that working out?
By the same token I could say: PROVE I showed NFLST via a home receiver last Sunday. A bar could have Directv and just not pay for NFLST because they can't afford / don't want to pay the extra few thousand dollars even a pretty small place is charged, which would explain the dish on the roof. The existence of a dish is no proof. It might be years since it was used last, but having a dish doesn't show if/when it was used. There's no law against me buying and installing a Directv dish even if I have never subscribed to Directv. It might be treated with suspicion, but by itself is not proof that would hold up in court.
If anything it would be easier to prove a bar streamed the game last Thursday, because Amazon's logs will have all the Amazon Prime customer usernames and IP addresses that streamed the game, and streaming devices identify themselves via the app used. Match one of those IP addresses to the bar and you can prove someone there streamed it. Now maybe it was a customer using wifi and watching it on their phone, but if the logs show something like "LG OLED smart TV using Amazon Prime app" or "Apple TV using Amazon app" they've got you dead to rights with proof beyond a reasonable doubt (and you only need "preponderance of the evidence" for a civil suit under copyright law)
Thats big money...directv used to sue people who had card readers built into a pc back around 2000..card reader would reset smartcard
So 60k bars times $700+ for NFL ST (for business)
That's not counting casinos, hotels , and other small,medium or large businesses ... $$$
According to a 3rd party/auth D* dealer website this is the price but it varies depending on viewing adience/fire code as mentioned earlier in this thread
"..2021 NFL SUNDAY TICKET retail price is $650 (Business Viewing) and $550 (Private Viewing)."
Again 3rd part site
DIRECTV for Business - DIRECTV Satellite TV Plans
www.directvbusinessoffer.com
If you Google "NFL sunday ticket for business " one of the links is a PDF link with 2019 pricing and you can see the rates ...
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"Business viewing" is not what bars pay. That's what you'd pay if you wanted to have NFLST on the TV in the break room at say a call center that's open 24x7.
Public viewing rates are what you want to look at if you want to know what bars/restaurants pay.
Yea my point was that they truly make big $$ on commercial side
Regardless of consumer side and cord cutters
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I thought that was the Base price and it went up according to how many people you could legally have in the bar ?So 60k bars times $700+ for NFL ST (for business)
That's not counting casinos, hotels , and other small,medium or large businesses ... $$$
According to a 3rd party/auth D* dealer website this is the price but it varies depending on viewing adience/fire code as mentioned earlier in this thread
"..2021 NFL SUNDAY TICKET retail price is $650 (Business Viewing) and $550 (Private Viewing)."
Again 3rd part site
DIRECTV for Business - DIRECTV Satellite TV Plans
If you Google "NFL sunday ticket for business " one of the links is a PDF link with 2019 pricing and you can see the rates ...
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There’s no need for one streaming service to offer another streaming service when customers can directly subscribe to NFLST. They don’t currently offer the other professional league streaming packages.
But is it fast and reliable internet?
I agree. NFLST will end up like the other professional league streaming services, all available both via streaming and via cable/satellite.
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Moving it to the most exclusive of the online ecosystems doesn't seem to be ideal, though that's improved a little with Apple TV.
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