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Looks like NBC sports network is shutting down at the end of 2021, with programming moving to the Peacock app and USA network. That doesn't directly impact Marquette, but I wonder if this is a canary in the coal mine with regards to sports networks. For those in the know, does this tell us anything about the health of Fox Sports 1&2, and Big East TV rights moving forward?
We already know that ESPN is hemorrhaging subscribers and laying off staff regularly.https://www.primetimer.com/barnhart/mnfBut like so many other things happening in “these unprecedented times” (another nonsense phrase), COVID is merely accelerating a trend that was underway before the pandemic. Namely, the death of cable, or at least the death of ESPN as a premium cable brand.
Yes WW. In light of your expertise solving complex issues, will we be alright with FS1?
Since you asked ...The sports bubble is imploding. Eventually, we will be streaming on MU.TV as part of the Big East.tvEveryone will be the same. For instance, the Packers will stream on packers.tv as part of nfl.com
This should be nothing to worry about with FOX Sports. FOX Sports is looking to grow as they look to bid on the NHL rights.NBC Sports is turning USA Network into TBS/TNT.
My question, is technical skills. How would MU TV and Packer TV staff a crew of film and production pros to stream/televise it at anywhere the level of quality we are accustomed to? I guess it would go to the level of Midnight madness when they would stream the inter-squad scrimmage.
I have been hearing predictions that something or other would be the death knell for TV sports almost as long as I have been hearing predictions that free agency would be the death knell for sports in general.
Cable and broadcast TV is losing audience. Sports TV ratings are losing audience. NBCSN is closing. ESPN is laying off employees. Define death knell?
MU enrollment misses, staff laid off, no in-person sports revenue. The end of higher education is imminent.Or C19 has caused a market correction that was over-inflated. The market is seeking equilibrium, a concept you well know. Lastly, sports teams are relearning how in-person fan experience drives equity to their media audiences. No different than when major sports have gone on strike: It will take two years+ for the brand to rebound.
To be clear, I never said sports were going away. I said they were going to shift to online/streaming, and they would eventually lose their bundle with a network and each would stream separately, either at the team level or the conference/league level. The economics are going that way.We will always have sports as a form of entertainment available in a video form to watch. If anything we will get more and more of it. The choices will be endless.In the meantime, the decline in cable and broadcast TV is terminal. It is never reversing. We are moving away from that delivery system to online. And with it, the economics are shifting. Remember the original post was about what does NBCSN closing mean. It means overpaying for sports broadcast right is a bad business strategy that does not work, and is not a sign of "health" for the cable/broadcast business.
I think closing NBC Sports Network was nothing more than NBC consolidating certain elements of their sports product into one platform. I think from inception NBC Sports Network never had many premier sports properties thus their economic viability as an independent entity was always in question . This is action is a non event and bears no correlation to the value of sports media properties.
They would still use professional production crews and announcers. It would just be delivered to your home differently.That being said, this isn't happening anytime soon. Streaming may be short term profitable for properties like soccer, where the broadcast fees are fairly low, but the audience is younger and passionate about the sport. But there is no way the NFL, or other major sports properties, are going to forego the massive rights fees to sell a streaming service. They will quickly find that people have better things to do. Maybe at sometime in the future, but that is still decades away when the technology becomes easier to deal with.Now you could see Sunday Ticket moved to Amazon Prime Video or something like that. But most people are going to stick with whatever games they can get when they turn on their television.
I think from inception NBC Sports Network never had many premier sports properties thus their economic viability as an independent entity was always in question .
Yeah that is a good synopsis. NBC hasn't shelled out big $$ for programming that can fill every evening. They also haven't gone into the "take industry" that dominates the ESPN and FS1 daytimes, which is smart because I doubt there is much room for that. Putting their sports properties on the USA or something similar makes sense.