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DirecTV offering streaming version of NFL Sunday Ticket

KeithE4 said:
Not available everywhere yet, but it is in 29 markets, including the home cities of 26 of the NFL's 32 teams. Prices are the same as last year's DirecTV packages.
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Why does the NFL need the middleman? It's not as though DirecTV brings anything to the table.

MLB hosts it themselves.
 
TheBigA said:
Why does the NFL need the middleman? It's not as though DirecTV brings anything to the table.

MLB hosts it themselves.
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The NFL's exclusive contract with DirecTV/AT&T is still in effect, regardless of the actual transmission medium (Satellite, internet, etc). It doesn't expire until after the 2022 regular season.
 
KeithE4 said:
The NFL's exclusive contract with DirecTV/AT&T is still in effect, regardless of the actual transmission medium (Satellite, internet, etc). It doesn't expire until after the 2022 regular season.
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It's also the reason NFL Season Ticket is the only such package not available to cable TV subscribers. Big money was paid for satellite exclusivity back when some in the industry thought satellite would become a dominant delivery system, and that keeping the NFL on only one of the two competitors in the satellite arena might ruin the loser and create a monopoly by default. Instead, the money is merely helping buy a fading technology with a failed business model a few more years of relevance.
 
KeithE4 said:
The NFL's exclusive contract with DirecTV/AT&T is still in effect, regardless of the actual transmission medium (Satellite, internet, etc). It doesn't expire until after the 2022 regular season.
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The net result is it makes the satellite aspect of DirecTV even more superfluous.

Key words being: NO SATELLITE REQUIRED
 
TheBigA said:
The net result is it makes the satellite aspect of DirecTV even more superfluous.

Key words being: NO SATELLITE REQUIRED
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Keep in mind that millions of rural residents don't have anything but satellite or over-the-air reception, and the projects to get high speed Internet to all those areas is moving very slowly.
 
TheBigA said:
The net result is it makes the satellite aspect of DirecTV even more superfluous.

Key words being: NO SATELLITE REQUIRED
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It won't be, once the current deal expires. The current offer is allegedly valid only within about 30 miles of the central city in the 26 markets that have been mentioned.

I checked my availability and it's good, being about 25 miles NE of downtown Phoenix.
 
CTListener said:
It's also the reason NFL Season Ticket is the only such package not available to cable TV subscribers. Big money was paid for satellite exclusivity back when some in the industry thought satellite would become a dominant delivery system, and that keeping the NFL on only one of the two competitors in the satellite arena might ruin the loser and create a monopoly by default. Instead, the money is merely helping buy a fading technology with a failed business model a few more years of relevance.
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But THAT was BEFORE a little something called CORONAVIRUS threatens to jeopardize the season & team bottom lines so the NFL needs needs ALL the help it can get right now
 
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