College football on Peacock


 
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JSaus

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This Saturday, I will not be able to watch the Ohio State vs Purdue game because it is exclusively on Peacock. Of course, it is not the only game affected as they are doing the same thing to 7 or 8 top 25 teams this year. I already pay for TV service and extra for the Big 10 network (and /SEC etc.), but that is not enough. Now I am expected to pay for a subscription service that I do not want or need. I am sure this is only a start and in the next few years, every streaming service will pick up sports events and hold us hostage. It is just too expensive to subscribe to all these services for just a show or two, especially amid this inflation. I feel we are being sold out.
 
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TBH, get used to it.

The big media companies are not in good shape financially. Writer/actor strikes, big layoffs, cost cutting, declining stock prices. Old school cable subscription revenue is plummeting. And it turns out that almost all of these streaming services (who are all intensely competing for a piece of the Netflix pie) lose money. Lots of money.

The cozy prior media world of in-theater movies and cable bundles is rapidly going away.

So as a consumer, you can only expect more fragmentation, more ads, and higher prices for less content you actually want to watch. So you really can't expect to see everything. You'll have to pick a couple of things you find worth paying for on an going basis. For me, that currently means a cable bundle plus Netflix plus Amazon (which we get for being Prime). And that is all you watch.

Or you turn certain services on and off periodically in order to catch/binge a particular show that is outside of your core subscriptions. Pay for one month of AppleTV, binge Ted Lasso, then turn it off.
 
Live sports is the only programming that still draws eyeballs. And the networks are paying handsome sums to secure broadcast rights. And the Conference gets a gut on the air rights too. So it's a bunch of key people making the money on this and, I agree with you, the fan is the one who loses out in watching their favorite teams.

Personally, we ditched cable in 2015. at $150 a month for TV packages, we wound up saving $1800 a year. We just take more vacations now instead with that extra money. TV isn't that important anymore.
 
Brett -- curious how much you pay for your high speed internet. As much as I hate Comcast, the unbundling math never seems to add up for me.

A Comcast bundle always seems to be cheaper than buying hi-speed internet plus TV separately. And waaaay chepaer if you also bundle in a land line, home alarm, cell service etc.

We do like to watch TV in my house though.
 
Jim C in Denver said:
Brett -- curious how much you pay for your high speed internet. As much as I hate Comcast, the unbundling math never seems to add up for me.

A Comcast bundle always seems to be cheaper than buying hi-speed internet plus TV separately. And waaaay chepaer if you also bundle in a land line, home alarm, cell service etc.

We do like to watch TV in my house though.
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$50 mo for 800mbps down and 20mbps up - i own the modem no no MRCC (monthly recurring charge costs)
amazon prime w prime subscription
netflix w TMO service
NFL free via OTA antenna and DVR
Apple TV as my streaming interface
no MRCC except for cable TV subscription (well, $2 mo for Netflix I think i the TMO account)
new home will have NVR with a few cams installed, no MRCC and full video file access anywhere i am in the world
don't need an alarm. there's nothing out to steal. go buy yourself a real safe and lock up your valuables.

Xfinity doesn't offer anything I need or want to pay for.

YouTube - free version. if i watch YT on laptop, no ads with adblocker

if these peeps want my eyeballs, they can pay me to watch. i just don't need what they are selling.

no cable tv news is a blessing. now news is a blessing. no indoctrination in my home is a blessing. i can watch as many cooking shows until i explode is a blessing.

go out more and travel. the world is better than what's on TV.
 
The old way is going extinct. Where you just buy bundles, much like my satellite. I pay for about 95% I watched channels which is insane.

The subscription idea isn’t feasible either. I’ll sit here and want to watch a college game that’s on Fubo, well that’s $75/month on top of $150 for satellite! Yep, not happening. Frankly, it’s all almost criminal.

At some point everything has to collapse because people will NOT buy multiple subscriptions for a game here and there. I could easily subscribe to all and the bill would be well over $400/month. Never happening!

And they also have Thursday night football on Amazon prime. Not only is the coverage atrocious, but Prime simple ain’t worth it.
 
Jim C in Denver said:
Brett -- curious how much you pay for your high speed internet. As much as I hate Comcast, the unbundling math never seems to add up for me.

A Comcast bundle always seems to be cheaper than buying hi-speed internet plus TV separately. And waaaay chepaer if you also bundle in a land line, home alarm, cell service etc.

We do like to watch TV in my house though.
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what are you watching? OTA TV or cable shows? (ota is over the air. hdtv signal which is free if you have line-of-sight of the broadcast tower, which i have total clear access to).
 
I hope Peacock falls on its face for this stunt. It has to upset a lot of football fans. Drop your subscriptions in protest or it will only get worse. All these services can not survive. I am already seeing some consolidation of services. HBO + Discovery, Disney + HULU, HBO + Discovery, Paramount + Showtime, etc. Prime and Netflix have gotten more expensive and the content worse. Much is over dubbed foreign content. I see a big shakeout in the near future.
 
what are you watching? OTA TV or cable shows? (ota is over the air. hdtv signal which is free if you have line-of-sight of the broadcast tower, which i have total clear access to).

We mostly watch cable (sports and news). Network TV is pretty much limited to live sports OTA programming is mostly limited to live sports.

And (here's the big one) the Mrs. has zero tolerance for a complicated set up. She wants turn on tv/select show/watch. Using only one remote.

Given that I'm gonna pay someone for hi speed internet, always seems that cutting the cable cord won't save all that much and will violate the mandated Mrs simplicity.
 
Jim C in Denver said:
We mostly watch cable (sports and news). Network TV is pretty much limited to live sports OTA programming is mostly limited to live sports.

And (here's the big one) the Mrs. has zero tolerance for a complicated set up. She wants turn on tv/select show/watch. Using only one remote.
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then you're locked into their ecosystem.

is your bundle running you $200 a month, if you don't mind me asking?

happy wife = happy life. spend accordingly.
 
This argument has been going on since the beginning of time. For more years than most will admit cable theft was a big business. Since then they clamped down on on their security and it's big business to charge for everything. If one doesn't want to pay to watch the game in the comfort of their home they should watch the game live in a stadium $$$$. The days of free anything is gone. I spend about $600 a month on cable, internet, phone, and cell phones + subscriptions to amazon etc. Adjusted to 20 years ago I was paying $180 per month and that was $100 for cable, internet, phone and $80 for a single line of cell phone.
 
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Fred Smith said:
If one doesn't want to pay to watch the game in the comfort of their home they should watch the game live in a stadium $$$$.
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That was part of my complaint. I pay for the Big10 network and they bowed to NBC for them to exclusively stream several of their games. I feel I am double charged and the Big10 and NBC double dip if I want to watch. Wait until it hits the Florida-Georgia, Ohio State-Michigan, Army-Navy rivalries etc.
 
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