For a company hemmoraging video customers, its not a good idea to lose millions of sports fans...
Comcast has dropped the BTN from its channel line up
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I had them for a few years when I lived in Northern Virginia/DC area. AWFUL...that sums it up.
Nice. Love seeing these greedy cable companies struggle.
Unfortunately instead of making improvements and making efficiency gains, they will just charge more for internet services and lower data limits in order to get more money from video streaming customers.
5 years from now.... All us "cord cutters". Will be paying as much or more for internet + streaming as we did for cable!
Unfortunately instead of making improvements and making efficiency gains, they will just charge more for internet services and lower data limits in order to get more money from video streaming customers.
5 years from now.... All us "cord cutters". Will be paying as much or more for internet + streaming as we did for cable!
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There are millions of Big Ten fans all over the country, not just in "Big Ten" states.
Amen brother! For us Hawks in Missouri, KC etc.... Luckily I don't have comacast. Still have Dish at this point. Switch off between Dish and Direct TV every few years to pit them against each other for equipment updates and intro pricing.
Sad but true. insatiable lust for corporate profits ruined a perfectly good business model and throw the consumer into an ever strange environment for consuming simple entertainmemt.
But but Debraska was going to deliver us the KC market and Rutgers NYC....
Wow - I just verified - it's no longer available as a channel but they still have on-demand. What a kick in the nuts..especially since I have been paying extra to even have it.
WOW!!!! There are TONS of Big Ten fans out here in the Denver area. So stupid.
Blow up the current system. Institute a true a la carte system, not the faux a la carte that PSVue/Sling/etc are supposed to be. Cut the dead weight channels and pay $2 (crap like Bravo for my wife) -$5 (ESPN/BTN) per channel of what you want.
I'm all for it but if that was a profitable model then I feel like someone would've done that by now.
The days of people paying for stuff they don't watch is coming to an end. Delaney's whole financial dream is gonna crumble. Of course, by then he will ride off with a big fat retirement payday and the ruined traditions of the Big 10 in his wake....
I wouldn't say that, it's just still pretty new at this point. You're seeing companies playing with the idea, such as ESPN who is rolling out their individual streaming channel now (or maybe soon?). Other companies like Disney are also in the process of doing their own. What was lacking before was an internet base that could handle that amount of streaming as well as platforms for putting the individual channel apps together, which is now getting filled by things like Roku or Apple TVs.
I think over the next few years there is going to be a pretty big push to things like this. The other distribution systems like cable, satellite, or Sling will still exist, but losing a sizable chunk of their subscriptions to people like me who only will watch a couple channels and maybe something like HBO.
Yep, just a matter of time. I have a buddy that continually brings up the fact that 20 years ago I told him that cable and dish would be replaced and we would all be watching over the internet. It has taken a little longer than I anticipated, but here it is. And a la carte is soon to follow.
Yep. That got me. Midco is 49% owned by Comcast. I let the Midco rep have it and told him this is going to cost more overall customers than it would just keeping it. He said it was a "business decision". I told him dropping their service would also be a "business decision". At least with Midco it was a part of the sports pack so you paid a premium to get it. Not like regular joe cable customer paid for it as a part of their basic package. So I have no idea why they dropped BTN.
Two people on my block have already dropped Midco and I am considering cutting the cord as well. Looking at Hulu Live.
I hope you are right! Only paying for what you NEED, is all that a lot of people want!
The problem is that it will all be so fragmented that we will end up being nickled and dimed to death. We'll probably end up paying more in the long run. These media companies are going to get their money one way or the other.
Rutgers needs to be kicked out of the BIG. They were brought here for their big tv market and now they won't even provide that. Delaney needs to say bye bye to them and some other team. I would say Maryland. Bad at football and never any real threat in basketball
I was saying this when they only ran the opening episode of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS network, and then chose to have it offline on CBS's newer pay service too to help Star Trek fans nickled and dimed too last year. It is happening everywhere.
The nice thing about having a service like Dish is that you have one PVR to gather all of your shows to simplify that process, rather than having to find other means to archive off shows for later viewing, etc. which also take a lot more time and extra expense to do on top of just getting access to the shows via different means through internet access or other ways to begin with. That is another expense pushed on to users that isn't quantified either.
Multiple comments about Comcast not being in NYC period. Just like Iowa and Neb dindo have Comcast
Yes because Iowa delivers such a massive market. Looks like future big paydays from the BTN are going to be a thing of the past.
