kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
| reply to BF69
Re: Guess part of the cable battle got missed
No, I'm raising the issue that the NFL used the public airwaves for decades and collected billions of dollars making both players and owner rich at the public's expense and even at the taxpayers' expense (like building stadiums with public money ala taxes and bonds).
Now, they are heading to a pay model. Funny, the NFL had to appear before the Senate and explain themselves just recently on the "NFL Network."
Now, they want to use certain broadband mediums (how many tax breaks has VZ gotten? a lot) to cater to a select few.
So, since this appears to be the NFL's ultimate plan, how about:
-Customers get to bounce ESPN (1 &2), which pays them billions, to save money on their Cable bills. ESPN is like $2-3 a month on cable bills BEFORE the cable company adds their profit margin.
-No more free rides on the public dole. If an NFL team wants a stadium, they pay for it. They have no problem paying players $10 million a season. Pay for their own stadiums. Same with the NBA, MLB, etc.
I'm just sick of my cable bill exploding every year to make sports teams rich.
How about al a carte cable? I'd love to bounce a few more stations I pay for that I don't watch. I also like to see PBS off the taxpayers bill. How many cable news networks do we have? Enough to get rid of it.
The NFL wants it both ways: public and private. They need to go one way or another.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to kyramilan
said by kyramilan  :NFL is becoming the pay sports league more and more. TV contracts on broadcast TV wasn't good enough. Screw everyone on cable with ESPN's big deals. Either let everyone watch or put their overpaid football players on a pay tier and lower the prices of cable. Cable prices go up 7% or more on Jan. 1st. Quit acting like you're getting screwed out of something or charged for something you would be getting. If NFL Network didn't show these games then they wouldn't be on AT ALL in my area. In fact these 8 games you would have to get Sunday Ticket to see them. As it is now you get 1 CBS and 2 FOX games or 2 CBS and 1 FOX game a Sunday Night game and Monday Night game. That's only 5 of 16 games shown in someone's local area in a given week.
Before 1987 there wasn't even Sunday Night fooball so at most you got to see 4 out of 14 games a week.
I live 800 miles way from my favorite team and if the NFL wants to offer me a chance to pay to see them on the internet then I'll take it because it's better than the 1-4 games I normally get to see in a year. |
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subman87
Another day in the Brentwood
join:2000-11-24
Harrison, NY
| reply to kyramilan
said by kyramilan :NFL is becoming the pay sports league more and more.
You can say that about MLB, NBA & the NHL as well.
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
| reply to IGGY
Great for what fans? Only rich and lucky FIOS fans.
People that don't have or don't want the overpriced digital cable can't get Thursday Night games.
Isn't this becoming an anti-trust issue? Didn't the NFL get out of the USFL lawsuit being a "natural monopoly?"
Cable netorks say NFL Network should be a pay channel or in a pay tier due to its expense.
If NOT for the people watching the NFL (rich TV deals that stick it to all because ESPN is a HAVE TOO), players would be getting one third of their pay, nobody would be stupid enough to shell out $750 million for a team, and ESPN would be a small operation (since it should be on a pay tier).
How about the basic channels, say 50, but put all the others, like expensive ESPN, on a next tier?
Otherwise, why is the NFL getting preferential treatment after purposefully bankrupting the USFL? Let's face it: Most Superbowls suck. NFL doesn't mind getting $2.5 million for a 30 second ad though on broadcast TV but screw fans otherwise. That is where it is headed.
NFL is becoming the pay sports league more and more. TV contracts on broadcast TV wasn't good enough. Screw everyone on cable with ESPN's big deals. Either let everyone watch or put their overpaid football players on a pay tier and lower the prices of cable. Cable prices go up 7% or more on Jan. 1st. |
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