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Anaheim Ducks games will be moving to KCOP Fox 11+

JTT2020 said:
Will this mean that the station might acquire more local sports like the angels?
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Generally speaking, major sports (baseball, football, basketball) have priced themselves out of reach for OTA television. There are still fees for the rights to broadcast and the ad revenue has decreased substantially. For a station to carry any kind of local sports, they first and foremost need to either be non-network affiliated or have an in-market sister station that can carry any pre-emptions of network programming. (The days of stations being able to choose whether or not to run a show are long gone; affiliation agreements now mandate carriage.) In L.A., only KCBS/KCAL and KTTV/KCOP have duopolies that are usable in that way.

Hockey is one of those sports which still has enough "mass appeal" to be viable OTA, although I can practically guarantee that the rights fees paid by Fox to the Ducks are a very small fraction of what they would pay for even the Angels (and the fee goes up from there for the rest of the teams in the market). In any event, they wouldn't do it unless the potential ad revenue far exceeded the costs; live sports doesn't have the prestige it did back in the day of Vin Scully and the Dodgers on KTTV.
 
JTT2020 said:
The ducks were also on bally sports west, weren't they?
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They were, with KCOP already carrying the occasional match that conflicted on the TV schedule. I suspect -- but cannot prove -- that Bally Sports being in bankruptcy is a factor; they also lost the Florida and Dallas NHL teams this year.

apnews.com

Anaheim Ducks will move local broadcasts from Bally to over-the-air channel and streaming

The Anaheim Ducks are the latest NHL team to move their local game broadcasts from a regional sports network to a combination of direct to consumer streaming and local broadcasts.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
K.M. Richards said:
Generally speaking, major sports (baseball, football, basketball) have priced themselves out of reach for OTA television.
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The Dallas Mavericks are an NBA exception, as they will have non-national games split between WFAA and newly rebranded sibling KFAA. Most games will be on KFAA.
 
"Exception" fits well with the concept of "generally speaking". :)

I gather there's enough ad revenue to offset the rights payments by Tegna to the Mavericks. I have to wonder, though, if this would have happened if the proposed spinoff to Cox of those two stations in 2022 had taken place.
 
K.M. Richards said:
"Exception" fits well with the concept of "generally speaking". :)

I gather there's enough ad revenue to offset the rights payments by Tegna to the Mavericks. I have to wonder, though, if this would have happened if the proposed spinoff to Cox of those two stations in 2022 had taken place.
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The WFAA/KFAA deal also involves carriage of the Mavs games on a number of OTA stations across Texas, though that will probably involve subchannels.

The NHL Dallas Stars are on Victory+, but there is chatter about adding OTA carriage.
 
Yes, indeed the leagues priced themselves out of OTA deals, and Fox Sports paid those high prices through their RSN's, but after a while saw they were actually losing more money than they wanted, hence the sale to Disney. The house of mouse was perfectly willing to keep things as they were through an ESPN rebranding, until the government screamed "Monopoly!" Enter Diamond Sports. They came with flashy promises of everything the leagues wanted which they would collect through hikes carriage fees ... Then Dish Network said "Screw You" dropping all of Diamond's networks and never looking back. The pandemic caused half-seasons of 2020 did them no favors, but even worse, the carriage fees they were collecting got smaller and smaller year by year as more and more consumers cancel traditional cable for other options. And that's where we are now. The leagues are splashing water on their faces, realizing the money then made then, they might night be able to make now, and deciding how to make money the best way in this new era
 
HappyThoughts1257 said:
I bet Scripps KILM might be interested in signing a deal with Clippers, Raiders, Kings, Dodgers and Galaxy to televised these games in 2025 while KTLA airs The CW Sports that's an option.
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We don't consider "fantasy" posts appropriate.

One thing is to discuss possible changes in a station. The other is to present totally impossible scenarios: all those teams have contracts with other stations that last for many years in most cases. They can't and won't move.

Conclusion: fantasy post. We will delete further posts of this kind.
 
Opening Weekend observations:
The Pre-Recorded Pre-Game show is only on-air and does not stream.
The EPG says "Ducks Live" but that title has not been kept. It's simply "Anaheim Ducks Pre-Game Show"
The Games themselves looked great. They're also doing the intermission periods from the arena.
Ads for the On-Air Broadcast and The Streaming Broadcast are sold separately.
Despite what your EPG may say, there is no post-game show. Once they say Good Night, Live Now from Fox News takes over the time remaining.
 
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