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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 2010997" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>No such wall does or can exist. The day the real whales decide they want this industry it will be theirs. The Magnificent Seven tech companies have a greater concentration of corporate capital than ever in the history of this country, and the big entertainment players have never been weaker.</p><p></p><p>The reason it hasn't happened yet is because everyone knows these rights are overpriced and a correction is coming. You don't want to buy a row of houses in Detroit in 2007, you want to buy the whole city for the same price in 2009.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But only out of market and without the games those leagues sell to ESPN & such (at least in terms of NBA League Pass and MLB.tv).</p><p></p><p>Those packages are purely <em>supplementary</em> income for those leagues, they aren't the core product.</p><p></p><p>It's an ongoing shell game. If you package the whole kit and kaboodle up and sell it directly to fans, the price point that equals (let alone grows) what the leagues get now would be astronomical and chase everybody away, cratering viewership and exposure.</p><p></p><p>Everyone is just hoping Google will buy everything at an inflated value and market it to consumers at a loss. That kind of thing was a Web 2.0, zero interest rate phenomenon, that's not our world anymore. Winter is coming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 2010997, member: 746137"] No such wall does or can exist. The day the real whales decide they want this industry it will be theirs. The Magnificent Seven tech companies have a greater concentration of corporate capital than ever in the history of this country, and the big entertainment players have never been weaker. The reason it hasn't happened yet is because everyone knows these rights are overpriced and a correction is coming. You don't want to buy a row of houses in Detroit in 2007, you want to buy the whole city for the same price in 2009. But only out of market and without the games those leagues sell to ESPN & such (at least in terms of NBA League Pass and MLB.tv). Those packages are purely [I]supplementary[/I] income for those leagues, they aren't the core product. It's an ongoing shell game. If you package the whole kit and kaboodle up and sell it directly to fans, the price point that equals (let alone grows) what the leagues get now would be astronomical and chase everybody away, cratering viewership and exposure. Everyone is just hoping Google will buy everything at an inflated value and market it to consumers at a loss. That kind of thing was a Web 2.0, zero interest rate phenomenon, that's not our world anymore. Winter is coming. [/QUOTE]
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