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Peacock is at it again
- Thread starter Loganfly
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Don't the home markets get the game OTA
Oh ok
This looks like a way to get around the Federal prohibition of the NFL playing games on Fridays and Saturdays during college and high school football season (roughly Labor Day Weekend thru early December). Since Peacock is an unregulated streaming service, it must be a loophole. This game couldn't air on any of the broadcast or cable networks in September, other than on Sunday or Monday.
The majority of NFL owners made their fortunes doing something else. They or their parents, grandparents know how to make money. This is just an investment to them. They will raise seat prices, get tax breaks for stadiums, maximize viewing contracts as much as they can. Hopefully they will not kill fan interests in the name of greed. There is a Wall Street saying: Pigs get slaughtered.
The saying is actually “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.”
The meaning is basically that it’s okay to make a good profit, but there is a line between that and price gouging, which will lose customers.
A different loophole but not streaming/Peacock related:
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Under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, the NFL isn't allowed to televise any gameson Friday or Saturday from the second weekend in September through the second weekend in December (Those two days have been earmarked for high school and college football). This is why you don't see any Saturday games on the NFL schedule until late in the season.
So what does that mean for this year?
The NFL always kicks off the season on the first Thursday after Labor Day. If Labor Day falls on Sept. 3 or later, then the first NFL weekend will be the second weekend of September and Friday games won't be permitted, but since Labor Day is on Sept. 2 this year, that opened the door for the NFL to play on Friday (Sept. 6). ”
Packers-Eagles in Brazil: NFL exploited this loophole in broadcasting rules to schedule rare Friday game
The league will be holding an opening week Friday game for the first time in 54 years
www.cbssports.com
I could be wrong there might not OTA in the home markets the word "exclusive" maybe someone in either home market will have info. Last time the Falcons played Monday night on ESPN it was OTA on one of the local stations.
WTMJ in Milwaukee as well being a co-primary (home) market to the Green Bay Packers.
The NFL mandates that any streaming/cable/pay tv broadcast of games be available OTA in both markets of the teams playing.
Which is great for fans of those teams in those markets, but fans across the country have to shell out money for what have essentially become pay-per-view games like this Peacock exclusive or Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime.
I’m an Eagles fan stuck in Los Angeles and I can tell you I will not be spending any money on Peacock tonight, but I’ll certainly be watching the game.
How much do you pay a month in cable to watch sports.
Personally, nothing. I’m a “family member” on my brother’s YoutubeTV account which I use for Philly sports, and if there’s anything else I want to watch, there are a plethora of less-than-legal means of watching that I have bookmarked in my browser.
So you steal content is what your saying.
I may have, at times, clicked my way through countless pop-up ads to watch a stream of a sporting event. I was a pre-teen at the advent of Napster, and the vast majority of music on my iPod is from the like of Soulseek (or WinMX, or Napster). However, my better half pays for Spotify, and that’s what I use now, because it’s just easier than finding songs, downloading them, and adding them to my phone.
The same principle I think applies to sporting events. If I could catch (mostly) everything through a combination of an antenna and a cable subscription, I think that’s par for the course now. Having to pay for an Amazon Prime subscription for Thursday Night Football is pushing it a bit too far IMO. Having to pay for Peacock to watch a handful of games is a bridge too far.
I do find a glimmer of hope in the likes of more NHL and NBA teams partnering with local TV station to air games, a rare bright spot in today’s media landscape.
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