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New for the 2023 season, here's the ranking for markets based on "number of homes" for TV purposes. The top are the usual suspects of NY, LA, Chicago. It's the 2nd half of the list that gets more interesting. This is strictly the home city, not necessarily the entire suburbia market coverage. If you take into account the full Panthers viewing area which covers multiple Nielsen survey areas, we rank a bit higher up the list than this. In other words, we're definitely not "small market" - don't let what others say fool you on this.

More because Chapek wasn't very good at his job. Share price was down pretty hard, lower than expected profits, and the direct-to-consumer division lost $1.5b in one three month period. He wanted to move away from animated movies, kinda screwed up Disney+ a bit... And yes, Chapek raised WDW prices pretty hard during his tenure, blaming "increased demand" for the reasoning, but without supplementing that with in-park improvements. But the ticket prices by themselves is not what resulted in Iger replacing Chapek.

A good agent --- especially after showing a potential buyer a certain number of homes -- will eventually know exactly what home/features will be worthwhile and which ones won't be. We had one agent bring us to a house with "we know you're going to hate (a) (b) (c), but thought we'd show it to you anyway". We hated (a) (b) (c) for exactly the reasons the realtor expected. They were efficient in narrowing down available options for us to look at, saved a LOT of time

Disagree. Fun fact: Disney+ is based on the streaming platform MLB built. Sports still needs distribution for viewers, and streaming platforms don't have the $$ by themselves to pay the bucks that the leagues are looking for. Read the ESPN oral history book for the details on the NCAA negotiations that had to happen for ESPN to even launch the channel. The leagues want maximum eyeballs. Going 100% YT content creators/streaming platforms will not give them what they want. Jomboy's relationship with MLB is interesting in that he negotiated that the MLB can have 100% of the associated YT revenue in exchange for using their clips -- Jomboy makes their money on the in-video sponsorships. If MLB balked at that arrangement, Jomboy would be nowhere. (game show network forced Jomboy to pull some of his game show reviews due to copyright, for example)

All corporations are in the business to make money, some do it better than others. But Disney is not even close to being at the top. I don't fault any company for making money --- if they provide me my expected value for their prices, I'm happy to pay. If I don't find value or worthwhile use, I'll pass it by - but won't dissuade others from being willing to pay up. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Berkshire Hathaway, NVidia, Facebook are all in the Top Ten (among a few lesser well-known names).

Good luck on getting access to the SW rides. They're fantastic, but your patience may be tested.

I'd recommend subscribing to the TOURING PLANS app (it's low cost vs the paid-for Genie) to help organize your day-off activities. Have used it, and it's pretty accurate vs the freebie wait times seen in the official Disney app. Plus, it's pretty solid in terms of making a complete day plan of which attractions to hit in order when you give it a full list of what you want to do.

Genie is a sad replacement for the superior Fast Pass.... but they needed to go to a digital/online/app-based solution if they were going to keep the Fast Pass concept. Regardless, the concept of Fast Pass is horrible as it forces people out of waiting on line for attractions and into the streets making things more crowded than they should be. The nice thing about the Fast Pass lines is that it allows a (reasonable) way for guests who require an expediated line experience a way to access the ride without entering through the exit. (ie: guest passes due to earlier ride malfunctions, Make-a-Wish kids) The ABCDE ticket books were fantastic, as it forced guests to experience all the attractions to get the full ticket book value rather than focus only on the E-level tickets.

They did two seasons of a terrific Road Rules-style show called BEG BORROW AND DEAL, where the contestants had to go across the country) with zero cash, credit cards, or cell phones while they score points by competing various tasks THE CHALLENGE is fantastic. 39 seasons (plus spin-offs) of must-see TV http://www.espn.com/begborrowdeal/

Happy to discuss :: opened a thread in nerdvana to avoid mucking up an ESPN convo.

Over in another thread, @Ricky Prickles said I get what you’re saying, but I find the argument flawed. the problem is that the parks are way way too crowded (blame Fastpass, and more so the new Genii/lightning lane), along with many years of poor attraction planning/management . but people keep flocking to the parks, so there are only so many ways to find that balancing point. When Disney abandoned the ABCDE ticket books for POP, that was the beginning of the issue-but bearable as there were only a single queue line for each attraction. Once a bean counter determined that there was a way to put more people in shops without losing ride capacity- that was a weakening of the system. Lack of investment in infrastructure was a sledgehammer, yes, the cost of a single day ticket has risen dramatically, percentage-wise. But the vast majority of Disney visitors do not buy single day tickets. So using the price of a single day ticket is not really fair for their economic model. Hotel prices are based on demand + features. More demand means higher prices. Lower quality will be lower prices (naturally. Case in point, as the All Star Resorts keep high occupancy, then rates can rise until occupancy evens out or drops a smidge. WDW is designed to require multiple days to explore the bulk of the 47 square miles of land that make up the resort. It’s designed for multiple day vacations. Disneyland has the opposite issue: it’s now designed for annual pass, day-trippers who visit daily for a few hours at a time. The quality of the parks / guest experience is declining. WDW can’t afford to upgrade space mountain or haunted mansion because they don’t want to take those attractions offline for two-six months as they don’t want to ruin a guests planned vacation. But by not doing so, they minimize the overall experience for everyone. land yet, crowds keep coming, no matter the price point. And part of that are parents feeling obligated to take their kids at least once (or more!!!!). There needs to be a price point where the average family says “no”, or at least, “just once” to alleviate the crowding and make the higher price feel like it’s a better experience. Forcing people to make park, ride, and meal reservations 6 mo this in advance isnt fun at all. because it’s not going to happen merely by limiting reservations to X thousand visitors a day. Heck, the park hoppers got angree when they couldn’t park hop until,after 1p or 2p. Imagine how angry people would get if reservations were more locked down. (disclosure: havent been to WDW in close to 16 years after visiting at least once a year for a bit, including touring the parks as the guest of former staff members who’ve written multiple books about Disney history)

You chose wisely. This years women's NCAA tournament -especially the later rounds - was fantastic

The ESPN oral.history book is fantastic, if you have a chance to read it. Explains a lot of what it takes (took) to launch a network and negotiate sports contracts, etc

I disagree

it could be a 1-week pay per 1 year of service --- 43 weeks of severance. some companies have done 2 weeks of pay per year of service: 86 weeks of severance. some companies do 2 weeks of pay, but a max of XX weeks, capped at one year. After 43 years, let him retire with a gold watch. He's got some stories, we're sure.

I think that's the most King has typed "Carolina" or "Panthers" in a single monday morning piece in at least six years.

Hopeful correction: supposedly you WILL be able to record Sunday Ticket games for replay later if you are a non-YouTubeTV subscriber.

Announcements, plural. Smells like a collection of activities. If it was Draft Day related, I'd guess it would have been announced by now for planning purposes. First guess: meet n greet, photo op, press conference, welcome walk, etc with the #1 pick after they arrive in town 2nd guess is something related to overall membership updates in advance of annual renewal/recruitment drive with some team-related improvements/opportunities, liike (for example) exclusive training camp access? Whatever it is, it'll be an improvement over recent times.

Nothing to do with the Byrce content, but that whole podcast was painful to listen to, audio-wise. Bryce may need to invest in some better microphones and other audio stuff if these are going to continue. Somebody engineering that podcast should have spoken up during the initial test/sound check.

On the other hand, the rest of the comments were relatively complete sentences. More experience talking/presenting can fix the filler words.

Saw the blue bracelet thing was debunked. He's been wearing that for a while. (Can't find the link, darn it)

More details keep getting released. Sunday Ticket will only allow for two stream maximum. These are separate from your three YouTubeTV subscription streams. RedZone or the MultiView count as one of the two Sunday Ticket streams. So you could RedZone on one stream and Multiview on the other. (it's unclear if this applies to the $11 RedZone add-on for YT subscribers or only to the Sunday Ticket add-on) Supposedly.... you could share your Sunday Ticket user/pass with one other person, and each of you would be able to watch one of the two available streams. That third friend will be out of luck. How this plays out in the real world this fall is still TBD. Maybe there'll be a crackdown, maybe not. YMMV

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Not great news, but not unexpected. Supposedly DVR option will only be available for YoutubeTV users. If you are not a YTtv subscriber, you will not be able to record the game for later viewing.