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Blech. Comcast has nabbed an "exclusive" playoff game broadcast

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11 hours ago, NCBlu said:

The NFL got so big because everyone with a TV could tune in on Sun and a game was on. The more they take games off over air tv the less people will care. 

I stopped with the NBA years ago because they moved to cable with there games now I care about the NBA 0%. Have not seen MNF or TNF in over 2years and it gets easier and easier to miss.

Less people watch this game and they can't sell advertising if no one is watching, hope they don't forget what made the NFL great.

I’m not young but what? You think OTA people are going to make it hard to sell advertising?

Sorry, but if you stopped watching the NBA or don’t watch TNF/MNF because they moved to basic cable/basic live streaming, you aren’t someone any advertisers care about. You are a rounding error if you are just OTA. I’ve got a giant antenna up in my attic that I moved from my last house when HDTV just started and OTA was all there was and it ran into my Dish box. I haven’t used that in 20 years.

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2 hours ago, ladypanther said:

Listened to a discussion about this on Sirius earlier.  Sounds like most everyone dislikes this.  I hope the ratings for this game are horrible.

It's going to backfire. The odd thing is it's literally NBC, so they could just show it on regular cable and stream on the app. At best they'll get a few million people to sign up for a free trial and some of those will forget to cancel before they get billed. 

Amazon doesn't divulge specific numbers, but when the company's exclusive NFL games were announced, industry estimates placed the platform's U.S. subscribers anywhere between 147 million and 172 million members. That meant most U.S. NFL fans were most likely already subscribed.

The same may not be true for Peacock, which had 21 million paid subscribers in the first quarter of 2023, per Statista. That puts the company in an interesting position as it faces a potential influx of new paid subscribers, or an expensive playoff game with low viewership.

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On 5/15/2023 at 11:09 PM, NCBlu said:

The NFL got so big because everyone with a TV could tune in on Sun and a game was on. The more they take games off over air tv the less people will care. 

I stopped with the NBA years ago because they moved to cable with there games now I care about the NBA 0%. Have not seen MNF or TNF in over 2years and it gets easier and easier to miss.

Less people watch this game and they can't sell advertising if no one is watching, hope they don't forget what made the NFL great.

I stopped with the NBA because of stretch 4's, one and dones being half the rosters, so I never knew the kids from college ball, and the new work requirement that everyone be covered in tattoos all the time.

Okay the last one I just threw in to make myself look even older and crotchetyier. I don't really care that much about tats, but a league full of "power forwards" that all average about five rebounds a game makes my stomach turn.

The NFL feels like it's very much trying to go down a similar path of making me not care.

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