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Apple Could Ink Deal for Big Ten Streaming Rights
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It's really crazy. I don't know which schools are in which conference, and no clue which network shows them. I guess it's just time to form the "CBS Conference" and the "ATV+ Conference"...etc. The days of college students playing football ended years ago. Minor league NFL is all it is. Oh well, still hope my Dolphins win a playoff game while I'm alive.
Giant mutants? These are like 19 year olds.
These are add-ons. Will follow MLS and NFL Sunday Ticket models.
These streaming services (i.e. companies) should start offering two tiers of service (or 3 if you will).
Like [Netflix] could have Netflix New (the last 6 months) $12.99, Netflix+Old $19.99.
Or like HBO New (the last 6 months), versus HBO Old, then HBO Max.
HBO I only want NEW, Netflix I only want NEW, etc
When you are around 40-50 years old, you kinda look at the OLD stuff and it's like 8 seasons? UGH/MUH more "chores!"
Like the reason I thought of this was I was going to say what about AppleTV "Live", which I could see happening.
The only reason I don't want HBO Old, is because most of the time I go in to HBO and look for something "Old" and it's HD & 5.1 and I just shake my head, then I check Apple Movies, and $3.99 or $4.99 you get the FULL MOVIE DEAL, and I often opt for that.
But then take Disney+ and AppleTV+, when you check the "Old" it's almost always (if possible) 4K Dolby Vision & Atmos, even IMAX sometimes, and I am like hell yeah!
So with Disney+ and AppleTV+, I don't mind the OLD with the NEW, it's a deal...
(but that bag these companies keep lugging around as part of the deal is a...)
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Like [Netflix] could have Netflix New (the last 6 months) $12.99, Netflix+Old $19.99.
Or like HBO New (the last 6 months), versus HBO Old, then HBO Max.
HBO I only want NEW, Netflix I only want NEW, etc
When you are around 40-50 years old, you kinda look at the OLD stuff and it's like 8 seasons? UGH/MUH more "chores!"
Like the reason I thought of this was I was going to say what about AppleTV "Live", which I could see happening.
The only reason I don't want HBO Old, is because most of the time I go in to HBO and look for something "Old" and it's HD & 5.1 and I just shake my head, then I check Apple Movies, and $3.99 or $4.99 you get the FULL MOVIE DEAL, and I often opt for that.
But then take Disney+ and AppleTV+, when you check the "Old" it's almost always (if possible) 4K Dolby Vision & Atmos, even IMAX sometimes, and I am like hell yeah!
So with Disney+ and AppleTV+, I don't mind the OLD with the NEW, it's a deal...
(but that bag these companies keep lugging around as part of the deal is a...)
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Good to see more sports on Apple TV+. Now want to see the sports available in other countries too.
SEC football is the only reason I keep linear TV. I don't give a crap about Monday night football most of the time but I can't give up my LSU football games. If Apple got the rights to SEC once the ESPN deal ends or ESPN decides to go nuclear on linear and adds it to ESPN+ I would be happy as a pig in sh$t
Haha, no dice. For decades the SEC has turned a blind eye to EXCLUSIVE MONOPOLISTIC sports broadcasts. And it probably started in ancient Greece... or at least the modern Televised Olympics exclusive rights broadcasts. The SEC cannot be giving a pass for every single network (ESPN, HBO, NBC, CBS, etc) for decades and then suddenly it tells Apple to stop doing the same thing.
I'm a fan of many sports, but I wish they'd put all this money towards more shows instead. Apple's actually been doing well building a streaming library, but I think they need more dramatic content more than sports right now.
No one cares, except America. The rest of the world is large, very large.
Won't happen. No school is giving up all the benefits (and research money) for being in the Big Ten Academic Alliance. (BTAA) That's the real money, and enables schools to pool resources to get grants and setup research institutes, students to transfer among, or take classes at, member schools and have credits transfer. professors visit and teach at member institutions, etc. No school will walk away from the 1 billion in research money each they get yearly as a result, as well as other benefits, of their BTAA membership. Athletic money pales in comparison to teh impact of research grants.
Only team in SEC that matters nationally is Bama... It's pretty sad when other schools chant SEC, SEC, SEC, as if Bama's success makes them matter...
Yea, but research money is driving it. USC and UCLA are all Association of American University (AAU) members, as are all (except Neb high was right before it joined) and will add to the B1G research footprint. Research brings in 10x the money as sports; and helps drive expansion for the B1G. I'd add Cal, Stanford, Washington and Oregon, all AAU, and be done with it.
And there are a lot of B1G grads spread around the world that would love to be able to watch games.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out, as the B1G's new media contract is estimated it will be over $1Billion a year.
yeah the monitor engineering team can finally stop negotiating streaming rights.
Yea. I remember when everyone was screaming about cutting the cord and it would be cheaper. Instead we got a balkanization of channels so that no one package offers everything, and buy the time you pay for internet and the TV you want it generally is the same or more.
LOL, as if more than 10% of college football fans were actually ever enrolled at the schools they root for!SEC English classes just aren’t cutting it.