Will Dish be part of the bidding?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...google-sunday-ticket-20130821,0,1393177.story
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...google-sunday-ticket-20130821,0,1393177.story
NFL Sunday Ticket up for grabs?
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Doubt it. Its at the point Directv has so many customers who have Directv because of the Sunday Ticket, they can't affort not to have an exclusive.
This just came in from Seeking Alpha regarding this..
DirecTV • 2:06 PM
DirecTV • 2:06 PM
- DirecTV (DTV +1.2%) might be smart to step out of the bidding for the NFL Sunday Ticket package if the costs get as high as $1.5B with Google in the mix, according to Citigroup's Jason Bazinett
- Though his analysis might discount the extra benefits of having exclusive NFL content, when Bazinet crunches the subscriber numbers and Sunday Ticket revenue it appears the deal could be unprofitable.
- The big picture: Many of the mammoth NFL contracts run through 2022, leaving plenty of time for the league to consider the impact of providing a tech company exclusive rights for a slice of its games.
I highly doubt google will actually get it but MLB.tv is pretty easy. It just has a list of the day's games and you click the one you want. Then it asks if you want the home or away feed and you are watching the game. That's it. NFL would be even more simplified because there are less games to choose from and only one feed of each game.
I honestly don't see why anyone would want to carry Sunday Ticket anymore. I can't imagine DirecTV is bringing in enough customers and keeping them to make up for how much that cost them. More and more games are available to watch on other channels. As it stands right now I'm able to watch almost half of the NFL teams play every week live and still have NFL Redzone for the other games.
I'd rather see the Sunday Ticket become available for all providers at a lower rate.
I'd rather see the Sunday Ticket become available for all providers at a lower rate.
I would rather see it on all providers at a lower rate too but they seem to have a pretty good thing going with Directv so I bet it stays that way. If Dish had it for about $200 to $250 I would probably buy it. Directv has sports bars all around the country that depend on Sunday Ticket though. I can't see the NFL switching to an alternative like Google and leaving all those bars out in the cold.
I thought I remembered hearing about how the NFL wants Sunday Ticket to be exclusive to one provider too. I seem to remember reading that they wanted to limit availability of Sunday Ticket to keep the Networks' games in demand with good ratings.
One article I read last night said directv was currently losing nearly 300 million a year on Sunday Ticket.
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I would think they lose more Sunday Ticket subscribers every year. If DirecTV wasn't giving it away for free to new customers their subscribers would be terrible. Like I said before, it's getting easier for people to watch their favorite teams and not as many want to pay that much to watch them.
For many once the Red Zone became available to everyone it made the Sunday Ticket not necessary for many people.
For a fantasy football fanatic like myself the Red Zone channel is about the greatest thing ever.
Ditto. I watch my Lions games but during commercial breaks and the rest of my Sunday when they aren't on I stay locked into RedZone.
A friend of mine with ST calls every year to threaten to cancel and gets a big discount to keep it. I guess he got the low down from someone he knows with ST. He only has it because his favorite team is out of market. Sounds like a lot of other ST customers do this too. Must be hard to make money on it if they have to practically give it away.
I don't think Direct views it as a money making item. I think it is more like promotional costs since it's exclusive to Direct.
I'm going to say it one more time.I believe that Sunday Ticket,will become available to all cable and sat providers,it may also come to google.It would cost DTV a lot more than it is worth for exclusivity,plus the NFL,which is all about the $$,stands to gain more revenue if ST is available in more homes.As it is now,you can subscribe to ST with a PS3,or pc and mobile device.They also offer NFL rewind with different camera angles etc.
https://gamerewind.nfl.com/nflgr/se...000024df99c8&gclid=CKaAvtX9kbkCFRRk7AodNRMADw
I know in Canada,both Bell and Shaw offer it,not sure about the cable providers,but i guess some of them have it too.
https://gamerewind.nfl.com/nflgr/se...000024df99c8&gclid=CKaAvtX9kbkCFRRk7AodNRMADw
I know in Canada,both Bell and Shaw offer it,not sure about the cable providers,but i guess some of them have it too.
I think the NFL is well aware of those bars being important to DirecTV- and feel it as leverage to keep one hand on DirecTV's wallet, and the other on their........
Yep. It's a loss leader to gather in the faithful and get them to spend on other packages as well. And a way of keeping Dish pretty much out of the Sports Bar business.
I think Directv could give up Sunday Ticket if Google wanted to outbid them on an exclusive deal.
Streaming video via the Internet would not work for many bars and restaurants.
The idea would be to keep Sunday ticket away from cable abs Dish.
Streaming video via the Internet would not work for many bars and restaurants.
The idea would be to keep Sunday ticket away from cable abs Dish.
