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

Mediafrog+ said:
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.
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The NFL wants a 50% increase in all of their rights deals. Who do you think ends up paying for that.
 
The NFL met with the FCC this week.

www.nbcnews.com

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.
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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.
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powergate92 said:
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.
 
TheBigA said:
Clay Travis also testified to congress about the sports & broadcasting law. He said the NFL is violating the law:

barrettmedia.com

Clay Travis: NFL Placing 87% Of Games On Free TV Means They're "Violating The Law" 13% Of The Time

"You guys have an important responsibility and an opportunity to apply the law fairly freely and help fans everywhere across the entire nation pay less and get more."
barrettmedia.com barrettmedia.com
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One solution the NFL could pursue is widening the geographic area where OTA TV stations can carry a game from a cable network or streamer, rather than just a single station in the two home markets. That would capture more fans, and the advertising in the game broadcast gets additional distribution.

Remember that at no time in the past was every NFL game available on OTA TV everywhere in the country. Most games are regional broadcasts.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
One solution the NFL could pursue is widening the geographic area where OTA TV stations can carry a game from a cable network or streamer, rather than just a single station in the two home markets. That would capture more fans, and the advertising in the game broadcast gets additional distribution.
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So then that would justify the NFL to increase the rights fees that local stations would have to pay. They aren't doing this for nothing.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
One solution the NFL could pursue is widening the geographic area where OTA TV stations can carry a game from a cable network or streamer, rather than just a single station in the two home markets. That would capture more fans, and the advertising in the game broadcast gets additional distribution.
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like the current MLB blackout maps

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Mediafrog+ said:
One solution the NFL could pursue is widening the geographic area where OTA TV stations can carry a game from a cable network or streamer, rather than just a single station in the two home markets. That would capture more fans, and the advertising in the game broadcast gets additional distribution.

Remember that at no time in the past was every NFL game available on OTA TV everywhere in the country. Most games are regional broadcasts.
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I've been saying that for years that secondary NFL markets should get Lions games when there on steaming services as I'm sure Sinclair would like the Lions on WWMT/ARC-WMI, Nexstar WOODTV/WOTV/WXSP/CW6 etc. At least on one of those channels in my opinion in West Michigan and other NFL markets.
 


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