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What The New Premier League TV Deal Says About NBC, ESPN, And The Future Of...
A little more than a year ago, I predicted that ESPN would take the Premier League away from NBC in 2016. My reasoning behind this prediction was fairly straightforward: NBC is owned by Comcast, and...
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The NFL Is Not A “Loss Leader” For Broadcasters
There’s a popular belief out there that National Football League TV deals are “loss leaders” for the networks that broadcast them. That means the networks don’t profit from NFL game broadcasts...
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Is Big Media Letting Broadcast TV Die On The Vine?
A couple weeks ago, while I was off cavorting in New Orleans with my new wife, Morgan Wick wrote this piece taking note of the fact that some broadcast TV stations might decide to surrender their...
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How Much Is ESPN Suffering From Losing 7 Million Subscribers In Two Years?
The Walt Disney Company dropped a bomb last month when they admitted in their 10-K filing that ESPN lost 7 million subscribers over the last two years. Everyone from Clay Travis to Ken Fang to Karl...
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Fox Prepares 6-Year, $1.5 Billion Deal With Big Ten
Fox Sports is putting the finishing touches on a new TV rights deal with the Big Ten Conference, which would begin in 2017, according to Sports Business Daily. The six-year deal is reportedly worth...
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Hulu’s Endgame: Eliminate The Middle Man And Become Cable TV
In 2013, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos told GQ writer Nancy Hass exactly what the plan was for the DVD-mailing company-turned-streaming giant: “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO...
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How Kevin Durant Will Get 2.47 Cents From Your Monthly Cable TV Bill
Image courtesy of The Players Tribune You might have noticed in the last few weeks that NBA players are getting huge contracts this offseason. Even role players are getting upwards of $10 million per...
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How ESPN’s Rising Carriage Fees Offset Its Subscriber Losses
When we last looked in on ESPN’s struggles with cord cutting in December of 2015, ESPN had lost seven million subscribers in a two-year span from 2013 to 2015. Fast forward 16 months later, and it’s...
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How Amazon Could Use Prime To Change The Sports Rights Game
Image courtesy of Koeppel Direct Amazon made waves in the sports rights game earlier this month when they struck a $50 million deal with the NFL to stream Thursday Night Football, outbidding Twitter,...
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Steph Curry’s Super-max Contract Was Made Possible By The Cable Bundle
Two headlines stood out last week that we should discuss. The first one comes courtesy of Streaming Observer, who posted this gem last Wednesday: The article details a recent survey, which found that...
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