Streaming and Blackouts
Can someone explain why a home game team - Rays vs Red Sox - plays on Apple TV app but is blacked out at home. We live in Tampa area and Apple is requiring us to buy the app monthly to watch it on my...
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Yeah, sports were once entertainment, and still masqurades as entertainment, but the players salaries escalated -- win, win, win at all costs - and force it into big business, and the fans pay, and pay, and pay. At some point, we'll not pay it and what will the owners do then. When fans have to choose between eating, heat, or 'entertainment', what do we think will go first?
As it is now, we get half the time game, and half the time commmercials. This might be our last season for baseball. NFL and NBA went away in our home already ... plenty things to do without it - HA, more camping.
It's unfortunate, but true. We tried to find a way to watch some sports without commercials - even if we paid extra - but it seems even with pay, you can't delete commercials... Well, some pay-per-view events, but I'll bet those will disappear soon. And, the more venues that divide the pie will reduce revenue for each venue as well. The more tech-complex it becomes, the more fans it will lose too. If you can't connect, you can't watch - so revenue dives again.
Remember when National Geographic was commercial free - great education programs- Not anymore. Fox bought the rights, and wholla, commercial TV cut parts out and fit in commercials.
As it is now, we get half the time game, and half the time commmercials. This might be our last season for baseball. NFL and NBA went away in our home already ... plenty things to do without it - HA, more camping.
It's unfortunate, but true. We tried to find a way to watch some sports without commercials - even if we paid extra - but it seems even with pay, you can't delete commercials... Well, some pay-per-view events, but I'll bet those will disappear soon. And, the more venues that divide the pie will reduce revenue for each venue as well. The more tech-complex it becomes, the more fans it will lose too. If you can't connect, you can't watch - so revenue dives again.
Remember when National Geographic was commercial free - great education programs- Not anymore. Fox bought the rights, and wholla, commercial TV cut parts out and fit in commercials.
