How long until sports become streaming only?

[Someguywhodoesntlikeyou]

I work in a related field and just curious what everyone thinks.

How long do you believe it will be until the major sports partners (Disney/Espn, Fox, etc) move all sports content to streaming only via their proprietary apps.

Some people inside the industry feel this is going to happen by the next decade: want to watch NFL on CBS? Got to subscribe to paramount + want to watch SEC football or NBA Basketball? Sign up for ESPN + today.

Good or bad thing.

 

[WellerSR]

Curious

What line of work do you do ????

Also, this name you chose, if you don’t like the posters here why post ??

 

[Cotaay]

At this point I only have YouTube tv to watch sports which I think is around $75/month. As long as whatever I have to bundle together isn’t way more expensive than that I really don’t care what they do.

 

[gamecockcat]

I think it's inevitable. We're already conditioned to subscribe to ESPN. Now, TNF is on Prime, a couple of games on Peacock during the playoffs, I think Paramount is now carrying the CBS game. The playoffs and Super Bowl, I believe, will soon be pay per view only and, at that point, I probably either quit watching NFL or go in with a group and split the cost. It's not the money. It's the principle to me (also, not a huge NFL fan). With an industry that grosses how many billions per year, it will be difficult for me (and I would expect others, also) to cough up even more money for the right to watch playoffs and SB - something I've pretty much watched for free for decades. If they would do away with commercials and ridiculous halftime histrionics, I might consider subscribing. But, pay to watch umpteen commercials and what is generally a pretty awful (in my opinion, of course) halftime 'show' that stretches a 60-minute game out to 4+ hours? I'll pass.

 

[bbonds]

Super Bowl will never go PPV only. Are you nuts? Advertising alone they make a killing. Remove the audience, you remove said revenue.

 

[warrior-cat]

Super Bowl will never go PPV only. Are you nuts? Advertising alone they make a killing. Remove the audience, you remove said revenue.

I think that might be true of most pro sports in general. So much advertising money to be had.