I think this has to do with the new upcoming TV deal for the whole league. The league is going to want to negotiate with a position that they could sell all local TV contracts. That's how the streaming services will want to purchase the NBA...every game for every team. I'm guessing the league has instructed all the teams to find short term solutions so they can go into their next TV deal with everything up for negotiation.
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I think this has to do with the new upcoming TV deal for the whole league. The league is going to want to negotiate with a position that they could sell all local TV contracts. That's how the streaming services will want to purchase the NBA...every game for every team. I'm guessing the league has instructed all the teams to find short term solutions so they can go into their next TV deal with everything up for negotiation.
It is. We have it and their DVR feature is fine for the most part. However, the one massive issue it has is there's no option to record past the allotted time. If you're out of market and use League Pass, they compensate by alotting 3 hours which typically works even for an OT game.
If you're in market, I think you can just record the upcoming program and you're good.
I lived within the Houston / Dallas / San Antonio triangle for four years and got all Texas games blacked out on LP. 12 games per year. 15% of the season.
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When will that be? Id love for the option to buy jazz and depending on the price, Denver Nughead games. I think joker is really fun to watch tbh. The league will probably make a lot of money if they allow folks to buy games while using something like youtube tv.
Weird. They only blackout Spurs games here, which I just watch on TV (and live when they are SAT games)
Yeah I didn’t live in any of the markets so I got them blacked out with no local option.
2025. The bid is expected to be something like 3x the last deal which leads me to believe that 1) the streaming sites are in play and 2) they want the local deals as well. If they get the local deals then there would be no more blackouts which is key.
I would imagine that you could buy single NBA teams or single games as add on packages to a YouTubeTV type package. The NBA already does this but blackouts are a huge problem as others have stated. Instead of your national TV games being on ABC they would just put that on the YouTube homepage and see a HUGE influx of new and unique NBA viewers. I really think cable TV is a dying medium and the streaming wars are going to really heat up. Online is a much better platform for the NBA and whoever wins the bid will make a **** ton of money. That’s why the bids are projected to be so high even though NBA ratings are not good.
I know a lot of people are going to think illegal streams are a counter to all of this, but people will pay for an easy, usable product. Every TV show, movie, and song can be downloaded easily from somewhere…but Netflix, Hulu, Spotify etc are still raking in the cash because people want what’s easy and convenient.
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Dish sucks. Keep dropping channels and raising prices. As many of the best new shows are off cable, these networks need to lower prices, not raise them. I was paying $100 a month and they wanted to bump me to $120 for a new 2 year contract. As much as I enjoyed autoskip and auto recording of prime time shows, YTTV has been awesome.
I just wish the NBA would get all of their streams in 4K, and that the NBA App would support it.
I detest these archaic blackout rules so much. They don't really affect me for the Jazz, but I just hate them on principle. There's no reason in this day and age that someone shouldn't be able to shell out a reasonable price to see any game they want streaming anywhere they are, other than some ******* with an ungodly amount of money not having enough to install ivory inlays in their pool.