Rising Sports Carriage Fees

[RS9999X]

Good NYT article about the pressure for cable operators to sever Sports from the rest of their content. We may see legislation before the end of the decade to mandate a non-sports tier for cable.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/b...wers-pay-to-keep-tv-sports-fans-happy.html?hp

 

[uconnfan68]

Good NYT article about the pressure for cable operators to sever Sports from the rest of their content. We may see legislation before the end of the decade to mandate a non-sports tier for cable.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/b...wers-pay-to-keep-tv-sports-fans-happy.html?hp

Finally, some sense shown. Why they would expect me to watch anything after screwing UConn is beyond me.

 

[RoderickSpode]

If this were to happen, the B1G (for example) would have no reason to pick a school like BC (with a huge cable market yet relatively few fans) over a school like UConn. (We'd still need them to desire a presence in New England, but that's another discussion!)

 

[whaler11]

Saw on Twitter earlier the same article written in the NYT from 1989.

 

[RoderickSpode]

Link? The landscape was very different a quarter century ago.

 

[whaler11]

Link? The landscape was very different a quarter century ago.

It's too far back in my timeline to dig it up - but someone posted it because of this article. Same tone, same thoughts - just 25 years ago.