Why DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Might Be Illegal Under Antitrust Law

Cowboysfan917 said:

Teach me your ways

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He's the ceo...

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erod said:

I've always gotten it for free or close to, but this year, those offers are dried up apparently.

And I have the select package with 7 televisions in my house.

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Try the chat line.

coult44 said:

I want Sunday ticket and paid for it for over ten seasons. However, I HATE DTV.
Is there any way to get The Ticket without having a DTV dish?

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I dont know if they still offer it, but I remember seeing Sunday ticket on playstation and you didnt need the regular service

erod said:

This is probably why DirecTV is not giving deals this year on NFL Ticket. Every year I'm able to swing a deal for it because I've been with them so long. Not this year though. They won't budge.

I'm seriously considering cancelling DirecTV as a result.

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You can still get essentially the same thing. Their offers are just more spread out. So it may be a small discount on the monthly price of ST, but then a larger discount on your base monthly package. The end result is the same out of pocket dollars, it's just distributed differently. I just did my negotiation yesterday. You just have to look at it from the perspective of your total annual cost for everything, and not individual pieces that are free or discounted a certain amount.

The change in how they do it may be due to increased AT&T influence.

playmakers said:

What’s your secret. I have had success in the past but this year I only got 12 bucks off a month. I’ve tried 3x and all through loyalty and retention. I’m not looking to get it for free, even though it would be nice, but I was looking for a better deal than that.

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Do you pay for the monthly equipment service if something goes wrong or not?

jwooten15 said:

How do you go about doing that?

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I think it is because I pay for the equipment repair/replace fee every month for twenty years now. I all retention/cancellation every year around this time provide competitor information on who I could go with and I always get it under what they call "loyalty" discount.

I used to have DTV and Sunday Ticket. I didn't watch TV much so it didn't make financial sense to keep it around. I paid for a (likely somewhat illlegal) sports streaming service a couple years back. It was like $50 for an entire year and you got all sports, not just football. The past couple years I've just used the Reddit streams though. They are pretty good for being free. I have no complaints.

Cowboysfan917 said:

Teach me your ways

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I think I really get it because I pay for the equipment/service replace fee every month but I as @cern outlined above I just don't take no from them.

conner01 said:

Never understood why the nfl doesn’t stream Sunday ticket themselves
Offer a team pkg for your favorite team that’s reasonable. A pkg of a handful of teams and a league pkg
Cut out the middle man, open it up to more viewers
The only downside is the loss of tv contracts but having everyone available would surely out weigh what you’d lose in tv contracts

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I don't think they want to get into the broadcast business.

They can barely manage to NFL Game Pass.
- The interface is not good.

Also, the networks are like a bank in that they pay money upfront and well in advance.

Making money direct selling via streaming would require waiting until people purchase the games.

Check my math/logic on the following:

16 total games per week when no teams have byes.

Most weeks:
1 Monday Night game
1 Thursday Night game
1 Sunday Night Game

That leaves about 13 games per week that air on Sunday during the day.

There are only 2 networks each airing 2 games during the day on Sunday for a total of 4.

That leaves 9 (13 minus 4) games that any fan can't see in his local area for free.

Side Note: The 2019 NFL schedule shows week 17 to have ALL 16 games to be on Fox or CBS.

The Bye Weeks help a little by spreading it out over 17 weeks:

• 16 weeks x 2 networks x 2 times slots = 64 games aired per market per season
• 17 weeks x 2 networks x 2 times slots = 68 games aired per market per season

I’ve been with Direct TV since their inception in the 90’s. I’ve checked competitors prices and it’s marginally less plus no one else has all the Sports programming. If your a Diehard it’s the best provider. Expense isn’t an issue for my greatest passion.

I have 5 receivers in my house. I’m not changing plus with AT&T can watch anywhere free on any device and doesn’t use Data.

I’ve been away from home and watched 3 games at once on my laptop, tablet and iPhone thru Direct TV with AT&T.

IndianaCowboys1994 said:

I feel for you and those who live in the bay area and Florida. Terrible teams!!!

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LOL...I would be dancing in the street if I was stuck having to watch the Florida teams. Try living in Western PA, smack dab in the middle of Poopsburgh, Cleveland & Buffalo and having to watch AT LEAST two out of those three teams play unless they're playing each other. Not even mentioning the fans, of these garbage teams, who are far worse than they're teams are.

Silver N Blue said:

Do you pay for the monthly equipment service if something goes wrong or not?

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Yes. The one for 8.99 we do.

playmakers said:

Yes. The one for 8.99 we do.

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Interesting they won't give it to you. Maybe I just get lucky with the right people every year.

Jipper said:

How did you do that? Do you have to call and set it up? I had no idea there was that option

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No. Just go to the channel (in the 700s) and select purchase—I think it’s called single day package. It’s 45$, but if you call that’ll usually let you try one time free.