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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 2014349" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>The contract was signed in 2012 to begin in 2014, it was the initial CFP contract, so three games.</p><p></p><p>It's true that the "new" 8 games of the package are the earlier round games so in some sense less valuable, but for the per-game take to go down in any context is a radical departure from where this industry was a decade ago.</p><p></p><p>Sports ability to hold up cable TV is finally collapsing. College football wasn't interested in moving their new showpiece to streaming-only to get closer to the money they were hoping for, the next big contract to come is the NBA, I suspect they will be much more willing to leave cable behind in search of dollars, but will any of the streamers be offering them any revenue growth?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 2014349, member: 746137"] The contract was signed in 2012 to begin in 2014, it was the initial CFP contract, so three games. It's true that the "new" 8 games of the package are the earlier round games so in some sense less valuable, but for the per-game take to go down in any context is a radical departure from where this industry was a decade ago. Sports ability to hold up cable TV is finally collapsing. College football wasn't interested in moving their new showpiece to streaming-only to get closer to the money they were hoping for, the next big contract to come is the NBA, I suspect they will be much more willing to leave cable behind in search of dollars, but will any of the streamers be offering them any revenue growth? [/QUOTE]
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