News: PFT: DirecTV may keep satellite piece of Sunday Ticket

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Since 2017 DirecTV has lost almost 40% of it's customers. In 2020, they lost over 2 million subscribers. I don't know that it will ever die, but if they keep losing customers at this rate at some point keeping all those satellites in space is going to cost more than DirecTV makes in subscriber fees. AT&T is already considering selling DirecTV.

Why would the NFL keep their Sunday Ticket Package exclusively on DirecTV? It makes no sense which means they will definitely break off the streaming part of Sunday Ticket and sell it to an existing streaming service.

I hope the NFL makes a wise decision on this and sells the Ticket package to a popular streaming service like NetFlix or Amazon Prime. Selling it to Apple would be a very dumb move because it has fewer customers than DirecTV.

Here are popular streaming services in the US and the number of subscribers:

1. Netflix - 204 million
2. Prime - 150 million
3. Disney+ - 95 million
4. Hulu - 39 million
5. Paramount - 18 million
6. AppleTV - 10 million

For reference DirecTV has about 13 million subscribers left. The largest cable company by subscribers is Charter Communications with about 26 million customers.

Selling it to Netflix would open it up to 15 times as many customers as DirecTV. The NFL could charge more for the service and Netflix less than what DirecTV is charging and both would still make a lot of money.
 
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Recently moved back to Texas... dropped Sunday ticket and can get most, if not all, Cowboys games OTA. It's pretty great to cut the cord
 
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Creeper said:
Since 2017 DirecTV has lost almost 40% of it's customers. In 2020, they lost over 2 million subscribers. I don't know that it will ever die, but if they keep losing customers at this rate at some point keeping all those satellites in space is going to cost more than DirecTV makes in subscriber fees. AT&T is already considering selling DirecTV.

Why would the NFL keep their Sunday Ticket Package exclusively on DirecTV? It makes no sense which means they will definitely break off the streaming part of Sunday Ticket and sell it to an existing streaming service.

I hope the NFL makes a wise decision on this and sells the Ticket package to a popular streaming service like NetFlix or Amazon Prime. Selling it to Apple would be a very dumb move because it has fewer customers than DirecTV.

Here are popular streaming services in the US and the number of subscribers:

1. Netflix - 204 million
2. Prime - 150 million
3. Disney+ - 95 million
4. Hulu - 39 million
5. Paramount - 18 million
6. AppleTV - 10 million

For reference DirecTV has about 13 million subscribers left. The largest cable company by subscribers is Charter Communications with about 26 million customers.

Selling it to Netflix would open it up to 15 times as many customers as DirecTV. The NFL could charge more for the service and Netflix less than what DirecTV is charging and both would still make a lot of money.
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DTV already has there Sunday ticket on a streaming service.. its only offered to those that aren't allowed to mount a satellite dish (apartments and HOA's ect.) it must be proven that this is true but once approved the streaming service is excellent... I see them offering this exact service to everyone very soon.. They have to to stay afloat
 
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brooksey1 said:
I'd pay to stream the Sunday Ticket, I just don't want their cable service
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That's what I do, I'm grandfathered in to pay for ST only without DirectTV service.

By the way, the App on Roku for Sunday Ticket is awesome!
 
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The Dallas1575 said:
DTV already has there Sunday ticket on a streaming service.. its only offered to those that aren't allowed to mount a satellite dish (apartments and HOA's ect.) it must be proven that this is true but once approved the streaming service is excellent... I see them offering this exact service to everyone very soon.. They have to to stay afloat
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I was a DirecTV customer in the past so the only way I can get their streaming service is to re-subscribe to their basic TV package which is over $60 a month. I was paying this, plus the Sunday ticket fee until a few years ago when I cancelled both. Even though I would suspend my DirecTV service after football season - which they let you do - it was still ridiculously expensive for me to keep, especially with low def reception. To get their streaming package it was an extra fee on top of the other fees I was already paying.

If they offered just the streaming service I would buy it but not if I have to have DirecTV too. Where I live I cannot get their HD satellites so DirecTV for me is low def. Maybe they moved their satellites or upgraded them in the last few years I don't know but I doubt it. I have trees blocking the dish line of sight to the satellites. But they still will not allow me to buy just the streaming service.
 
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Posted by Mike Florio on October 21, 2021, 4:18 PM EDT

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At one point over the past few years, we wrote that it made sense for the NFL to keep the satellite portion of Sunday Ticket with DirecTV and to sell the streaming side of it elsewhere, in order to maximize the overall reach of the product. Despite the explosion in Internet-based video, satellite technology continues to deliver content for many. Thus, the NFL’s best outcome would entail having both platforms.

Via Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal, that may indeed happen.
Fischer reports that “momentum is growing” for an extension with DirecTV, one that would result in the streaming side of the package going elsewhere. Helping the cause is the fact that AT&T will be spinning off DirecTV; the relationship between the NFL and AT&T had become very strained, and that angle is now irrelevant.

Read the rest: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/10/21/directv-may-keep-satellite-piece-of-sunday-ticket/
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Woody --there is a site similar to Netflix...called zero zero...inexpensive and actually better than Netflix that gives free sunday ticket
 
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Macnalty said:
I feel the same, it also alerts me if I want to watch a game more closely or tape a game if I see it developing. I am no Direct TV homer but this is one feature I enjoy.
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NFL Game pass allows you to watch every game over , both the full broadcast as well as a 30 minute condensed version. Its great and it isnt that expensive.
 
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Along time ago when I was a young 19 year old chap, I decided since I no longer live at home I could now buy direcTV just to watch my Cowboys every Sunday. Called up direcTV installer came over, says to me...I can't put a dish on here because there are too many trees yada yada. He said to go online and apply for the internet version of direcTV due to not being able to get a dish where I lived. I did and let's just say this. I will live at that address the 19 year old me lived in as long as DirecTV still has a monopoly on Sunday Ticket. All I have to do is log into my accout every year, put in that 19 year old self address and boom. Don't have to pay for channels or anything, just buy the Sunday ticket and I'm set for the year/season.
 
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nflreplay.net, and games are streamed online for free. all you need is a good internet service.
 
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WoodysGirl said:
Posted by Mike Florio on October 21, 2021, 4:18 PM EDT

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At one point over the past few years, we wrote that it made sense for the NFL to keep the satellite portion of Sunday Ticket with DirecTV and to sell the streaming side of it elsewhere, in order to maximize the overall reach of the product. Despite the explosion in Internet-based video, satellite technology continues to deliver content for many. Thus, the NFL’s best outcome would entail having both platforms.

Via Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal, that may indeed happen.
Fischer reports that “momentum is growing” for an extension with DirecTV, one that would result in the streaming side of the package going elsewhere. Helping the cause is the fact that AT&T will be spinning off DirecTV; the relationship between the NFL and AT&T had become very strained, and that angle is now irrelevant.

Read the rest: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/10/21/directv-may-keep-satellite-piece-of-sunday-ticket/
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Here is a secret. What is more important to DirecTv ... a carrot to make the horse follow.
 
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