Big 10's Cash Cow BTN Coming to an End....but we still got Rutgers

[ghostOfHomer777]

my only point was 5G phone service, once it is here, will eliminate any need to have a cable or satellite box.

although I'm sure Verizon / AT&T / and the others will simply jack up the mobile bills...

Fundamentally, the electromagnetic waves that carry the data are going the same speed. So the increase in data rates is being driven by the efficiency of the network algorithms and the nature of the data structures that encode the data. The algorithms presumably transfer the data in fewer steps (decreasing the time of transfer) and the data-structures allow some expansion in the effective band-width (increasing the amount of data per time).

Fiber optics are interesting because they decrease the latency simply by having the data go at the speed of light in the glass fibers (roughly 200 million m/s). This blows away wired-technologies because charge density waves in wires (what people refer to as electric current) are limited by the wave speed in the wires (which is typically much slower).

 

[hawkssox1]

https://sports.yahoo.com/cord-cutting-can-change-entire-landscape-college-football-215556228.html

This was so predictable. Delaney will get out of Dodge before this all goes down with his platinum parachute.

DELANY has and will be just fine providing anything from Yahoo is laughable.

 

[CO_hawk]

Fundamentally, the electromagnetic waves that carry the data are going the same speed. So the increase in data rates is being driven by the efficiency of the network algorithms and the nature of the data structures that encode the data. The algorithms presumably transfer the data in fewer steps (decreasing the time of transfer) and the data-structures allow some expansion in the effective band-width (increasing the amount of data per time).

Fiber optics are interesting because they decrease the latency simply by having the data go at the speed of light in the glass fibers (roughly 200 million m/s). This blows away wired-technologies because charge density waves in wires (what people refer to as electric current) are limited by the wave speed in the wires (which is typically much slower).

Fort Collins was getting fiber optics when we moved away last year. I don't think Omaha is going to be getting anything like that for a while. It's going to be a long time before that gets rolled out to towns of 70,000 or less.

 

[HawkeyeinOmaha]

The BTN is positioned to make the BTN app available to a worldwide audience by rolling it out in app stores to the general public and charge a $2 to $3 a month subscription for it. Right now, in order to use the BTN2Go app you need to have a cable/sat subscription. Lift that requirement and let everybody across the country to subscribe to it monthly. The fees from app subscribers might just be equivalent to what they are currently pulling in.

Oh, and this whole thing is being brought to a head by Comcast (NBC) in its war with FOX. Notice it's not just BTN they went after but also FS1, which I believe is the carrier for Big 12 football.

My advice to all Big Ten fans is to drop Comcast and tell them why you are doing it.

I think that is the way to go, and I would be all over that. As it stands right now I have Sling TV which doesn't carry BTN. I have bitched to no avail. So I'll have to switch to another streamer soon.

 

[HawkeyeinOmaha]

Keep this in mind. Comcast needs BTN too. If they cut BTN that will only result in more cord cutters, making their problem even worse. Many of the streaming services available nationwide carry BTN.

 

[Quix0te]

Interesting to note the ACC Network is due to launch in 2019. Unlike the BTN and SECN with huge public schools and tons of alumni, the ACC has only two state flagships. The rest are little brothers and small private schools including ND without football.

I can't see this thing getting off the ground. People in NY will not subscribe to watch Syracuse, nor will Atlanta sign up to watch GT.

 

[JRHawk2003]

This. This. And this.

What is the price point though? How much? You have to remember there are a lot of HGTV types who dont want sports at all. You literally get money from every cable subscriber now. What your saying is that your fan type will simply pay more to fill in that gap. That may be true to an extent, but consider that we only consume like 2% of their programming in a year. If they would just stream games, like NBC Gold does with EPL games...I might have an interest in that. I don't care if Howard Griffith or DiNardo stay employed.

 

[Franisdaman]

The Big Ten Network isn't selling cable, it's selling Big Ten Sports,... The delivery path may change but the product is only going to get better...

is there any data on what revenues are coming from each of the delivery systems? In other words, what is the revenue from the following:

Cable
Dish
Direct TV
PS Vue
You Tube TV

etc, etc