That are watched by people paying these lofty prices for Sunday ticket…correct
I'm rocking a set of 70s vintage rabbit ears and getting all the local channels.
Those additional customers also come at the cost of more support staff, server capacity, and bandwidth. The NFL, like Disney, knows they have die hards that are willing to pay a premium.
Yeah I remember on a couple other forums I posted on years ago (maybe 2017 era) I was calling out the whole cutting the cord narrative that was getting thrown around.
Everyone was like screw the cable companies streaming is cheaper. I posted it was B.S, the networks were going to take a temporary profit loss to gain entry into the market but once it grew prices would increase and they would make all time high profits. You would 100% be paying more money than cable for less channels.
People loved to blame the cable company but in reality, it was the network setting the high prices and always renegotiating. They could get away with it because at the end of the day they knew the average person would just blame the cable company.
It's not easy to con the average person. It's the same group of people who also rant about how they're getting such a deal on their free upgrade phone. It's like no dummy, once your phone is paid off it's supposed to drop to $40-50 a month range for the bill. The phone company is giving you a new phone so they can keep your bill over $100 and just advertising it as "free upgrade".......
You might have a real good point there. A price point that both throttles the traffic AND make money.
So how do you...as a cable subscriber...get games not presented in your market?
$70 per month which includes local channels for most areas.
that is $50 per month on top of $70 per month for basic = 120 per month.
Some guys are into that kind of thong . . . Don't Ask . . . Don't Tell
Pretty much this for me with Hulu Live.
I don't need to buy 17 Cowboys games, I only need to buy a handfull of games. I am willing to pay a bit of premium per unit to have that luxury. If I want to watch other teams or I live in an area where the Cowboys aren't on locally that many times, then yes, the whole package is probably a better option. NFL has left me a choice, I can pay $350 for a service where I only need a few games, or I can just use other methods to watch those few games. Would I rather watch the Cowboys legally?, absolutely, but in my opinion YT and the NFL is not giving me a financially viable means to do that.
It’s for out of market games - if you get your team already why would you even want it?
