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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1468381" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>Thank you. That is what I'm arguing and it's the truth.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right, it's not as if the cable companies are stupid, badly run businesses that are now hemorrhaging the customers they only had via monopoly power.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>BTN's ratings are basically zero. Especially for anything other than football and men's basketball, especially especially outside the historical footprint.</p><p></p><p>Also, in researching this post, <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/08/comcast-fox-settle-big-ten-network-carriage-dispute-college-football-1202452085/" target="_blank">I came across this, which I hadn't previously seen:</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So New York and Connecticut are already out, and Delware, DC, and Northern Virginia are on an expanded basic package. It's already slipping away.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They're both big money, at least they were. A buck a month from every breathing human in half the country is a heck of a revenue stream.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why not? Scared of Penn State moving to the ACC? Scared of the SEC swooping in and taking Maryland from under our noses?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1468381, member: 746137"] Thank you. That is what I'm arguing and it's the truth. Right, it's not as if the cable companies are stupid, badly run businesses that are now hemorrhaging the customers they only had via monopoly power. BTN's ratings are basically zero. Especially for anything other than football and men's basketball, especially especially outside the historical footprint. Also, in researching this post, [URL='https://deadline.com/2018/08/comcast-fox-settle-big-ten-network-carriage-dispute-college-football-1202452085/']I came across this, which I hadn't previously seen:[/URL] So New York and Connecticut are already out, and Delware, DC, and Northern Virginia are on an expanded basic package. It's already slipping away. They're both big money, at least they were. A buck a month from every breathing human in half the country is a heck of a revenue stream. Why not? Scared of Penn State moving to the ACC? Scared of the SEC swooping in and taking Maryland from under our noses? [/QUOTE]
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