New rules of watching live sports without cable

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Per Washington Post article on the migration of sports broadcasts from cable to RSNs, and streaming.

The main worry for leagues and franchises is that they will never be able to replicate the reach and revenue of peak cable. In whatever model emerges, sports entities probably will have to collect more money from sports fans to account for the missing money from the non-sports fans that came from the cable bundle. And if teams want to maximize revenue, they will have to split their games among a number of services, including streaming outlets, which will make those games harder to find at a time when sports are desperate to reach younger audiences. To watch every Yankees game last year, for example, a fan in New York would have needed a cable subscription, plus subscriptions to three streaming services: Amazon Prime, Peacock and Apple TV Plus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/19/rsn-bankruptcy-sports-tv/

 

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Per Washington Post article on the migration of sports broadcasts from cable to RSNs, and streaming.

The main worry for leagues and franchises is that they will never be able to replicate the reach and revenue of peak cable. In whatever model emerges, sports entities probably will have to collect more money from sports fans to account for the missing money from the non-sports fans that came from the cable bundle. And if teams want to maximize revenue, they will have to split their games among a number of services, including streaming outlets, which will make those games harder to find at a time when sports are desperate to reach younger audiences. To watch every Yankees game last year, for example, a fan in New York would have needed a cable subscription, plus subscriptions to three streaming services: Amazon Prime, Peacock and Apple TV Plus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/19/rsn-bankruptcy-sports-tv/

Vegas Golden Knights (NHL) and the Suns have signed deals with local broadcast tv networks. It makes a lot of sense to ditch cable and go to a wider reach of broadcast. There are a lot of broadcast tv stations that just show reruns. Live sports is basically the last good generator of ad revenue with linear tv. The big 4 broadcast tv networks went away from Live sports during the week because it annoyed regular tv watchers and hurt their tv show ratings because people couldn't keep up with when a new episode was going to be on.

Ion, who the Golden Knights signed with, makes a lot of sense to take up a lot of local sports, they already have the reach with 64.8% of the us population and are in all of the top 20 U.S. markets and 37 of the top 50 markets. They just show reruns right now so they don't run into the problem of original content being disrupted by the irregular schedule of live sports.

Andy Larsen: Recent NBA and NHL news should give Jazz fans hope about a return to a fan-first local TV deal

The Vegas Golden Knights and Phoenix Suns have recently signed fan-first TV deals in their local markets. Will the Utah Jazz follow suit?

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