Apple wanted it in their base package but the NFL said no
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Apple is spending over $8 billion this year for Apple TV+ content. Getting the NFL for another $ billion or two would probably be a bargain in terms of $/content hour.
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NFLST is just not a big enough deal to the NFL for them to promote it like that. With two million subscribers that is like 2% of the overall NFL fanbase.
They just want to cash the check, it is up to whoever buys the rights to try to publicize it.
Roger Goodell: Sunday Ticket negotiations are at a "very critical point" - ProFootballTalk
DirecTV has held the rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package since its inception in 1994. After the next four Sundays, DirecTV will be out.So who will be in? That’s still to be determined. But it apparently will be determined soon.Commissioner Roger Goodell, during a press conference following...
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I agree but the NFL wants 3 billion dollars for it...whoever is dumb enough to pay that much better promote it big time
Are you saying that only 2% of the NFL Fan get Sunday Ticket ?
IF No one gets it, the NFL will find otherwise ....
There will be a lot of pissed off fans that can't watch thier favorite team anymore after being able to for the last 20 years.
From those numbers, you Think that 98% follow thier OWN home team, I doubt thats the case either.
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Maybe the NFL will Hold Out, like players do when they want more money .... they can miss the season and then wonder why no one would pay 3 Billion for it.
The ST is going to Strike !
The ST has no leverage in this argument ...
The NFL really isn’t “dragging its feet” so much as it has been left at the altar, if you need an analogy. No one has been willing to offer the NFL what it wants, which is a new experience for the NFL. Eventually they are going to have to settle.
Understand, as all sports media commentator do, that this package will lose money on a cash basis. It is unlike the “split the pot” out of market packages in other sports, its only value is to predicate access upon first buying something else.
Now Apple, which is also used to getting its way all the time, has tried to think outside the box. Just toss in NFLST in with the other stuff on the $7 Apple TV, on the premise that this would make ATV virtually universal. But the contracts with CBS and Fox, which are for vastly more money, require it to be sold for a “premium price”, generally accepted to be $300 per year. Apple really isn’t sure that it wants to be in the premium content business.
So Amazon, but Prime already is pretty universal. How many more people are going to get Prime to get access to ST? Not really that many left to sell. Amazon seems to have made a final offer, well below what the NFL wants
So Disney, whose streaming business, like all streaming businesses, is hemorrhaging money. Could it sell a significant number of people on the full Disney bundle as the predicate for ST. Disney Plus is for children, Hulu is a bunch of reruns, and ESPN+ is sports not popular enough to get on ESPN. Hard sell.
Understand, as all sports media commentator do, that this package will lose money on a cash basis. It is unlike the “split the pot” out of market packages in other sports, its only value is to predicate access upon first buying something else.
Now Apple, which is also used to getting its way all the time, has tried to think outside the box. Just toss in NFLST in with the other stuff on the $7 Apple TV, on the premise that this would make ATV virtually universal. But the contracts with CBS and Fox, which are for vastly more money, require it to be sold for a “premium price”, generally accepted to be $300 per year. Apple really isn’t sure that it wants to be in the premium content business.
So Amazon, but Prime already is pretty universal. How many more people are going to get Prime to get access to ST? Not really that many left to sell. Amazon seems to have made a final offer, well below what the NFL wants
So Disney, whose streaming business, like all streaming businesses, is hemorrhaging money. Could it sell a significant number of people on the full Disney bundle as the predicate for ST. Disney Plus is for children, Hulu is a bunch of reruns, and ESPN+ is sports not popular enough to get on ESPN. Hard sell.
There will be far more that will be able to. My guess is that the number of people that have DTV and no broadband is minuscule compared to the number of people that have good broadband but can't get DTV (for whatever reason) or more importantly don't want to pay for it to have access to Sunday Ticket.
And let's not forget. Most fans live in the market of their favorite team. All you need to watch those games is an antenna or a very basic TV package.
That is a good question. I really don’t know how many people that was, other than post-brags on boards like this, there is really no way to know, short of them telling us, which they won’t do.
I think the days, not just in ST, but all of TV, of “customer retention” are coming to an end. In the next era, it will cost what it costs, pay up or do without.
I think the days, not just in ST, but all of TV, of “customer retention” are coming to an end. In the next era, it will cost what it costs, pay up or do without.
Early 2023..
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Yeah, will certainly be responsible for a not-insignificant portion of churn over the next year or more once the NFL season has concluded, a lot of people looking to switch and/or subscribe who otherwise couldn't before.
Thats just it, I don't think its as much as you think ....
There are tons of fans that don't like thier HOME team.
Half the league Home fans probably don't like thier home team.
What Update, nothing was told to us that we didn't already know.Early 2023..
NFL World Reacts To The 'Sunday Ticket' Update
The NFL's Sunday Ticket deal with DirecTV ends after the 2022 season, and the package is poised to switch platforms for the first time. Speaking from the
No one said anything about early 2023 either.
Goodell said its at a "Critical" point ... thats Only because no one has offered to pay the ridiculous money the NFL thinks it should get ...
If offers don't increase, what will the NFL do then ???
They will look at the highest bidder again.
So, Quit Bidding and it won't go any higher and the NFL will be in the bind, not the people bidding or the customer ....
No One wants to play $300 p/y
Reasonably would be maybe $100 for your Team and $ 150 for the Whole package, this way it gives incentive to buy the whole package.
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