Future of College Sports TV rights/networks/services/etc.

[Jim Johnson]

1 hour ago, Rocky Style said:

I was thinking about this a couple years ago.  If USF is savvy, they could end up making more money this way.  

USF is getting about $8 million from the AAC television package.

If a streaming package for USF athletics is $50 per year, that requires 160,000 subscribers... that's A LOT of people considering USF has ~20,000 season ticket holders for football and ~5,000 annual fund donors.

[Bull94]

23 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

USF is getting about $8 million from the AAC television package.

If a streaming package for USF athletics is $50 per year, that requires 160,000 subscribers... that's A LOT of people considering USF has ~20,000 season ticket holders for football and ~5,000 annual fund donors.

I think espn and the other legacy networks are running into this problem when it comes to streaming.

I believe without carriage fees from people who don't actually watch their channels, the number of subscribers would require them to charge an excessive amount.

some have said in the neighborhood of $50 per month as they believe espn will only attract 20% of the people who pay the current $10 per month on their cable carriage fees.

This whole shift to streaming is going to reduce revenues considerably in the future imo

[USF_Bullsharks]

ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch joint sports streaming platform this year

WWW.CNBC.COM

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Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to launch the service as media companies move away from traditional cable viewing of sports games.

This is certainly interesting. 

[Cat941]

2 hours ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch joint sports streaming platform this year

WWW.CNBC.COM

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Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to launch the service as media companies move away from traditional cable viewing of sports games.

This is certainly interesting. 

What!?!   Have they been in cahoots all along?  What about NBC & CBS?  

[BDYZR]

13 hours ago, Cat941 said:

What!?!   Have they been in cahoots all along?  What about NBC & CBS?  

P3 vs G2?

[bull2saintleo]

13 hours ago, Cat941 said:

What!?!   Have they been in cahoots all along?  What about NBC & CBS?  

Hulu was originally a collab between FOX, NBC, and ABC to compete against Netflix.  It's not out of the question.

[Cat941]

 

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[Bull94]

24 minutes ago, Cat941 said:

 

all the networks move to streaming is going to hurt every conference's payouts (heck even major league sports) in regards to carriage fees. that includes the big 12 , sec, and big 10.

80% of espn's revenues are carriage fees.

[GoBulls84]

Is this standalone ESPN service going to include the conference networks that they currently have ownership of? If it includes ACC and SEC Networks than it may not be as damaging as the Big 12 shill seems to think. At least not much more than the streaming model will damage anybody else.