Blackouts a thing of the Past?

Who gives a ****? NFL FU!

You get a ****load of money from advertising on games we PAY for through our providers (comcast, Dish, DTV, etc.)

Cry me a friggin river....

I completely agree with the FCC ruling.

As I understand it, the FCC lifting the blackout rule will not require the NFL to broadcast all games. They can still "black-out" games on their free-TV broadcasts.

The N.F.L., under its agreement with broadcast networks, will still be able to black out a game on broadcast TV. But because of the F.C.C. vote, a cable provider could show a blacked-out game in a market where the broadcast version is blocked.

Exactly! This is exactly what I requested from Goodell 3 years ago when I had a chance to meet him. The NFL should still have the ability to blackout free OTA tv but not Sunday Ticket or any other service we are paying for. It's common sense to me.

Makes sense to me too.  No one should expect the NFL to give their product away for free, but they shouldn't expect fans to pay through their cable provider and then not have access to what they paid for.

Follow the money. RT @darrenrovell: BREAKING: NFL strikes deal with DirecTV 8-yr deal, source says worth avg of $1.5 BILLION annually.

 

50% increase......  WOW!  The last 4 yr/deal was about $1B/year.  

That sucks.  I was really hoping for a soon to be buy as you desire, perhaps even maybe stream online like pre-season.

 

Not a fan of DTV at all.

Gotta work some magic on your cost Cavetoad

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The NFL should still have the ability to blackout free OTA tv but not Sunday Ticket or any other service we are paying for.

I would have thought non-OTA was outside the ambit of the FCC.  It's why they can't fine cable channels for using naughty language.

I can stream whatever I want... quality suffers though, I was hoping to just buy what I needed instead of hunting around.

 

Apparently the NFLFU didn't finger out they could make more ala carte.

IMHO they can't make more selling subscriptions a la carte yet or they would already have done it.  That day is coming, though, and relatively soon.

 

Just think of the owners meatings a few years from now when they're discussing the prospect of thumbing their nose at guaranteed billions in network revenue vs. the upside of a subscription model that's run off a server farm somewhere.  

 

That's a pretty big damn paradigm shift, and it's not going to happen until it's obvious that the numbers work out in their favor.  Won't be long.

I'm thinking it will be at least 8 years down the road.

Yeah, that's a good guess.  They're going to run through at least one more round of network contracts or two.  It depends on how quickly the other dominoes start to fall.  When networks like HBO/Showtime/other cable giants make their programming available on an on-demand basis, everything else will follow quickly.  IMHO.

JJSD, did you see brandts tweet? DTv got Sunday Ticket for 8 more years. Rainbowacheese will get it free for 6 of those years.