Stop Working on Those Cable TV Revenue Models

[Palatine]

The delivery systems will change.

The real question is who controls the content. Someone has to outbid the networks for control of the conferences. Don't count out the networks just yet.

 

[whaler11]

Almost none of these conferences have a critical mass of people looking to buy at a premium that would allow them to go direct.

Without the ability to spread those contracts to tens of millions of people that don't watch there is no way to sustain the revenue.

 

[pj]

What's actually crucial is the dispersion of interest. If you had one large group with intense interest and another large group with shallow interest, you have a high ability to go direct. If interest varies continuously at all different levels, then the best thing is to bundle your content with unrelated content, which is what cable TV does (sports, news, entertainment, movies, weather, etc).

 

[buddy]

Anything after 2027 is mighty far away far someone my age....and ESPN has locked up a lot of content for the next 13 years.

Anything after 2027 is mighty far away far someone my age....and ESPN has locked up a lot of content for the next 13 years.[/quote

Anything after 2027 is mighty far away far someone my age....and ESPN has locked up a lot of content for the next 13 years.

I think people would pay to watch you and FSU spontaneously combust.