Vetted

midatlantech said:
Vetted means investigated, it does not mean “approved”.

I doubt the Big Ten let that info out without a reason and in my take it’s because they plan to do nothing else at this time.
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Vetted typically implies "qualified" after an investigation. It is typically a first formal step before being presented to a board for potential selection. My take is that they plan to expand in the next few years rather than sit and do nothing.
 
aeromech said:
Vetted typically implies "qualified" after an investigation. It is typically a first formal step before being presented to a board for potential selection. My take is that they plan to expand in the next few years rather than sit and do nothing.
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I think they are going to watch the USC and UCLA experiment before doing much else. The ACC is not going anywhere and why would the SEC take interest in wash/ore? They could take interest in CU and FSU and UNC and UVA however.
Also streaming is changing the dynamic. Every year that goes by, how does it affect the Big Trn model?
And lastly, ESPN could be losing important TV time/quality. Maybe they open their purse strings to keep it intact?
 
midatlantech said:
Also streaming is changing the dynamic. Every year that goes by, how does it affect the Big Trn model?
And lastly, ESPN could be losing important TV time/quality.
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Article: ESPN Starting A Streaming Service Is The Beginning Of The End Of Cable

"As media companies continue to prioritize streaming over their linear cable networks, the loss of original content and viewing to most cable networks has plummeted.... The recent plans announced by ESPN, coupled with the struggles of RSN’s will only accelerate cord cutting. By the end of the decade, the cable model will be extinct."

I have believed for a long time that all of sports media industry is in a huge bubble. While viewership numbers for sports are still better than all other content on TV, the overall TV viewership numbers are declining as evidenced by this move by ESPN. They are chasing where the eyeballs have migrated to. The question lingers, will sports content consumers follow to the streaming services in the same numbers?

In general, overall viewership of all sports has been stagnate and in some cases declining for a number of good reasons. Various leagues have been rigorously tinkering with the product with rule changes to try and improve the viewer experience. You don't do that unless you are concerned about a shrinking viewership market.

The networks are paying more and more for the content and spending more on creating new streaming platforms to chase the eyeballs while getting less and less in return from the customer.

The advertising revenue model is also highly questionable on many levels. The recent fiasco with Bud Light should highlight the point. Increasingly out of touch marketing strategies directed at a consumer base that is very tired of the off-brand message. The same off-brand message that has filled sports broadcasting over the last several years.

I predict a train wreck. Where Tech is when this thing goes off the rails is anyones guess but I suppose there isn't any "good" place to be on this train.
 
Buzzilla said:
Article: ESPN Starting A Streaming Service Is The Beginning Of The End Of Cable

"As media companies continue to prioritize streaming over their linear cable networks, the loss of original content and viewing to most cable networks has plummeted.... The recent plans announced by ESPN, coupled with the struggles of RSN’s will only accelerate cord cutting. By the end of the decade, the cable model will be extinct."

I have believed for a long time that all of sports media industry is in a huge bubble. While viewership numbers for sports are still better than all other content on TV, the overall TV viewership numbers are declining as evidenced by this move by ESPN. They are chasing where the eyeballs have migrated to. The question lingers, will sports content consumers follow to the streaming services in the same numbers?

In general, overall viewership of all sports has been stagnate and in some cases declining for a number of good reasons. Various leagues have been rigorously tinkering with the product with rule changes to try and improve the viewer experience. You don't do that unless you are concerned about a shrinking viewership market.

The networks are paying more and more for the content and spending more on creating new streaming platforms to chase the eyeballs while getting less and less in return from the customer.

The advertising revenue model is also highly questionable on many levels. The recent fiasco with Bud Light should highlight the point. Increasingly out of touch marketing strategies directed at a consumer base that is very tired of the off-brand message. The same off-brand message that has filled sports broadcasting over the last several years.

I predict a train wreck. Where Tech is when this thing goes off the rails is anyones guess but I suppose there isn't any "good" place to be on this train.
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The beginning of the end of cable was in the mid-90s:

en.wikipedia.org

Internet Protocol television - Wikipedia

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coit said:
The beginning of the end of cable was in the mid-90s:

en.wikipedia.org

Internet Protocol television - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Yes, it isn't a very well written article. Sign of the times. A better title might have been, "ESPN Starting A Streaming Service Is The Final Rat To Jump From The Sinking Ship of Cable". Or something like that. My writing is usually too direct for the overly sensitive and wouldn't survive modern filters. öööö em'.
 
Buzzilla said:
Yes, it isn't a very well written article. Sign of the times. A better title might have been, "ESPN Starting A Streaming Service Is The Final Rat To Jump From The Sinking Ship of Cable". Or something like that. My writing is usually too direct and wouldn't survive modern filters. öööö em.
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I believe that Cable's new frontier is going to be to bundle all of the Hulu/Peacock/Disney/Paramount/ESPN/Bally/etc packages at a discounted rate with a common interface to access them all.

The pricing model is showing that you can be paying for 5 or 6 of these services and spend less than what Cable is charging now.
 
coit said:
I believe that Cable's new frontier is going to be to bundle all of the Hulu/Peacock/Disney/Paramount/ESPN/Bally/etc packages at a discounted rate with a common interface to access them all.

The pricing model is showing that you can be paying for 5 or 6 of these services and spend less than what Cable is charging now.
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Possibly. I still think people are becoming less and less inclined to pay for any of these. And collectively the annoyances, hassle and expense of multiple streaming platforms is going to drive even more people away.

Personally, I don't like multiple streaming services. I am an avid Youtube user and will subscribe to Youtube TV when necessary for college football. I could not care less about the rest of the main stream media content. To me, it's engineered propaganda and hot garbage and I damn sure won't pay for it and only watch it under duress.

I think fracturing sports products on multiple platforms is going to further negatively impact the overall viewership market and the strength of the product. Only the most avid sports fan is going to subscribe to multiple streaming services, and suffer the glitches of each, to insure they have full coverage of all the sports they want.

This is very bad business practice.

I personally believe there is going to have to be a centralized platform for the content at some point or they are going to suffer a decline in viewership. I think Youtube is the most likely and capable platform.

I generally don't like centralized anything because it gives power to a small number of people who almost always abuse that power, but in this case, I think the overall sports media market is going to decline without a centralized platform.
 
Cable, Streaming, whatever......ESPN is going to get their pound of flesh either way
 
Honestly, at my age, I can live without football. I attend GT games and that is about it. I may watch a GT game on TV if I have nothing better to do, but it isn't the same as attending in person.
 
Interesting perspective. Makes sense that sec members wouldn't want more than 2 schools per state.
 
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