FCC opens inquiry into movement of live sports from broadcast TV to streaming

[TheBigA]

This issue apparently has bi-partisan support in congress:

Sen. Tammy Baldwin Proposing Congressional Action on Sports TV Accessibility

"It’s extremely frustrating to not know how or where to watch the games we love. It’s also damn expensive."

barrettmedia.com

 

[CTListener]

I'm afraid that someday, it will come to this:

Every Inning Of Baseball Game Aired On Different Streaming Service

U.S. - In a new milestone for Major League Baseball, every single inning of a game was aired on a different streaming platform.

babylonbee.com

 

[Don CT]

The increasing cost of cable is due in great part to increases in sports rights payments. Get rid of sports on cable and your bill will go down. This is why the RSN model is collapsing.

The NFL wants a 50% increase in all of their rights deals. Who do you think ends up paying for that.

 

[TheBigA]

The NFL met with the FCC this week.

NFL defended streaming strategy in meeting with Trump administration regulators, FCC filing shows

NFL executives said 87% of the league's games are still distributed on broadcast television networks — not streaming services.

www.nbcnews.com

The NFL highlighted that 87% of its games are still carried on broadcast networks, adding that "no other sports league" was "distributing games this way." The regular season viewership of games on CBS and NBC reached an all-time high last year, it said.

 

[Don CT]

The NFL met with the FCC this week.

NFL defended streaming strategy in meeting with Trump administration regulators, FCC filing shows

NFL executives said 87% of the league's games are still distributed on broadcast television networks — not streaming services.

www.nbcnews.com

Did they mention about their future rights deals where Netflix and Amazon gets more games.

 

[powergate92]

Did they mention about their future rights deals where Netflix and Amazon gets more games.

Here is the actual filing with the FCC. The NFL says Streaming games on Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube are broadcast on OTA station in the team's local market and therefore 100% of the local team's games are broadcast OTA. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/104211150806825

 

[Don CT]

Here is the actual filing with the FCC. The NFL says Streaming games on Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube are broadcast on OTA station in the team's local market and therefore 100% of the local team's games are broadcast OTA. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/104211150806825
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That’s not entirely true though, teams markets go far beyond their home city. As a giants fan in Connecticut I get blacked out a lot for Patriots games.