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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 2010912" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>Sort of.</p><p></p><p>The idea is that if the only thing keeping people tethered to cable (or its streaming equivalents like Youtube TV/Sling/Fubo/etc) is sports, why not strip the package down to just said sports and sell it directly?</p><p></p><p>The devil is in the details there though, for one thing this won't have local RSN's like NBC Sports Chicago, and is missing CBS and NBC. Fixable problems potentially, but problems. And then the price point will be $40-50 at a minimum, might be more, sports rights are the lions share of what you're paying for in a cable subscription.</p><p></p><p>And then of course all of these companies remain under pressure to put more and more stuff behind streaming paywalls. The offerings of this bundle get thinner by the year.</p><p></p><p>So in being both incomplete and quite expensive I suspect this will be a relatively unsuccessful product at least initially.</p><p></p><p>My theory? The corporate parents here, Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery all would love to parachute out of the sports business at a favorable price, and I suspect they are creating this one big fish as bait to be eaten by an Amazon or Apple, a mechanism to give them rights en masse in one fell swoop, rather than playing the league-by-league bidding game which these companies have shown a distaste for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 2010912, member: 746137"] Sort of. The idea is that if the only thing keeping people tethered to cable (or its streaming equivalents like Youtube TV/Sling/Fubo/etc) is sports, why not strip the package down to just said sports and sell it directly? The devil is in the details there though, for one thing this won't have local RSN's like NBC Sports Chicago, and is missing CBS and NBC. Fixable problems potentially, but problems. And then the price point will be $40-50 at a minimum, might be more, sports rights are the lions share of what you're paying for in a cable subscription. And then of course all of these companies remain under pressure to put more and more stuff behind streaming paywalls. The offerings of this bundle get thinner by the year. So in being both incomplete and quite expensive I suspect this will be a relatively unsuccessful product at least initially. My theory? The corporate parents here, Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery all would love to parachute out of the sports business at a favorable price, and I suspect they are creating this one big fish as bait to be eaten by an Amazon or Apple, a mechanism to give them rights en masse in one fell swoop, rather than playing the league-by-league bidding game which these companies have shown a distaste for. [/QUOTE]
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