What would you pay to see your team play?

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Let's assume that the next TV negotiation is not what the league wants and online is not a full option but since they already have the Sunday Ticket in place, they offer a season pass for all the games or you can buy them singularly, what would you be willing to pay?

And this is not out of the realm of probability because the league wants more money, the players want more money and they already have a set up with ATT/DirecTV in place.

Would you be willing to pay $35 a game or a season pass for $400? Would you be willing to go higher?
 
The NFL makes over 7 billion a year for the NFL Sunday Ticket, the NFC, the AFC, Monday Night Football and Thursday night football television packages from CBS, NBC, Fox, DirecTV and ESPN/ABC.

Those numbers look like this:

ESPN pays $2 billion a year for Monday Night Football and one wild card NFL playoff game that airs on ABC and ESPN.

Fox pays $1.1 billion a year for the NFC television package and its playoff games.

CBS pays $1 billion a year for the AFC television package, its playoff games, and an additional $230 million for five Thursday night football games.

NBC pays $950 million for Sunday Night football, some playoff games, and an additional $230 million for five Thursday night football games.

In addition to this, Fox, CBS, and NBC all rotate the Super Bowl every three years, which is a massive revenue generator worth several hundred million dollars a year.

Finally, DirecTV pays $1.5 billion a year for the NFL Sunday Ticket.

Add it all up and the NFL is making roughly $7 billion for its football games just off television rights. The explosion in TV revenue is why the NFL’s salary cap per team has soared from $36 million a year in 1994 to $167 million a year for 2017.

But how much, if anything, do all these networks actually make off NFL games? Forbes has an interesting article that projects total ad revenue per game and totals up everything for the 2016 season. Here’s their NFL Ad Revenue projections (including playoffs) for the 2016 season.

Fox: $1.44 billion

NBC: $909 million

CBS: $867 million

ESPN/ABC: $285 million

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/how-much-do-the-nfl-and-tv-partners-make-a-year-030117/
 
$2.50 per game.

Break it down, and I am not getting into a lot of depth here.

What does DTV charge for ST, $400 for the year?
There is 16 games a week. Remove the 3 on Sunday, Monday, Thursday. Then remove the 3 games on Sundays.
That is 10 games a week, and then even with buds, sometimes it’s only 7 or 8.

Take those over 17 weeks. It comes to about $2.50 per game. So,they want to make money, and millions to pay for it. Say $5.00 per game.
But the greed will be $25 from them.
 
Issue I see is right now Sunday Ticket accounts for 1.5 billion while all TV networks account for 6.5 billion. sunday ticket will not make up the difference and there are already many people I know who have dropped sunday ticket because they feel they pay too much as is for cable in general
 
As a follow up on my above post. Obviously you can’t watch all,those games. But you have the option of switching to other game. But that is what is would come too if you could watch everyone say in a bar. But then again DTV charges the bar or restaurant, well 8 years ago it was $25 per seat of your capacity.
Another corporate ripoff.
 
I can barley watch this crap for free at the house, much less pay for this crap... and I don't buy "gear" crap either.
 
CouchCoach said:
Let's assume that the next TV negotiation is not what the league wants and online is not a full option but since they already have the Sunday Ticket in place, they offer a season pass for all the games or you can buy them singularly, what would you be willing to pay?

And this is not out of the realm of probability because the league wants more money, the players want more money and they already have a set up with ATT/DirecTV in place.

Would you be willing to pay $35 a game or a season pass for $400? Would you be willing to go higher?
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jazzcat22 said:
As a follow up on my above post. Obviously you can’t watch all,those games. But you have the option of switching to other game. But that is what is would come too if you could watch everyone say in a bar. But then again DTV charges the bar or restaurant, well 8 years ago it was $25 per seat of your capacity.
Another corporate ripoff.
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would love to know what DTV makes off charging for the ST. Has to be more than 1.5 billion.
 
CouchCoach said:
Let's assume that the next TV negotiation is not what the league wants and online is not a full option but since they already have the Sunday Ticket in place, they offer a season pass for all the games or you can buy them singularly, what would you be willing to pay?

And this is not out of the realm of probability because the league wants more money, the players want more money and they already have a set up with ATT/DirecTV in place.

Would you be willing to pay $35 a game or a season pass for $400? Would you be willing to go higher?
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The league will not do this. The vast majority of people that watch could easily do without it. Most aren't nutbags like us:)
 
glimmerman said:
would love to know what DTV makes off charging for the ST. Has to be more than 1.5 billion.
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The primary revenue they make is that people like me don't cancel them partly because of it.

DirecTV throws the best picture, but weather issues are a pain. They should have solved that long ago.

And now, the young folks are streaming everything, so their customer base is shrinking.

Sunday Ticket helps to slow that attrition.
 
glimmerman said:
would love to know what DTV makes off charging for the ST. Has to be more than 1.5 billion.
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Oh I am sure a heck of a lot more than that paid.
They could cut the price in half to each individual household and probably would not even be a dent in there profits to what they may from businesses.

When I had my bar, I checked into it, and at the time, they said $25 per seat of the listed capacity.
Jist think of all the Buffalo Wild Wings around the country, and their capacity. And what they pay.

It would have cost me $3,200 for ST at my business. No freaking way I was going to pay that.

Knew an owner of a place 2 miles up the road. He paid $3,000 for a pay per UFC fight. And his capacity was half of mine or less. He thought it would make him packed and big money. He had 38 customers that night and 20 were regulars that would have been there anyway.
 
erod said:
The primary revenue they make is that people like me don't cancel them partly because of it.

DirecTV throws the best picture, but weather issues are a pain. They should have solved that long ago.

And now, the young folks are streaming everything, so their customer base is shrinking.

Sunday Ticket helps to slow that attrition.
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That is the only reason I have Directv. Is for the Sunday ticket. I remind them of it every year. And they discount my bill so I stay.

I could easily have cable included in my phone and internet package and it would cost me 30 extra in my package. Would save me about 80 bucks a month.
 
erod said:
The primary revenue they make is that people like me don't cancel them partly because of it.

DirecTV throws the best picture, but weather issues are a pain. They should have solved that long ago.

And now, the young folks are streaming everything, so their customer base is shrinking.

Sunday Ticket helps to slow that attrition.
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I think many keep being a DTV because of the ST. If not for that, I wonder how many would bail out.
I wish some other company would out bid them. Or the NFL would open it up to all companies, including streaming for this.
 
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