Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Are we seeing the beginnings of a Pay To View (Not Pay Per, Pay TO) model for the future of American sports...

It appears as if the first several salvos of the new sports reality may have been fired, most by NBCUniversal:
  • The bulk of the Premier League is already on NBCU's pay Peacock service.
  • NBC Sports Network will be a thing of the past at some point in the next 12 months -- probably sooner than later, once the Tokyo Olympics finally get scrapped and the entire Olympic movement suffers, if not a fatal blow, a near-fatal blow.
  • And, even ancillary to sports, WWE Network is being phased out and sent over to the Peacock pay service as well.
And that's with Champions' League soccer already on CBS All Access, CBS' pay service, which is about to become Paramount+ in March.

People are beginning to figure this out -- and especially with ESPN on the ropes BEFORE the pandemic situation (so there's almost no way they survive in present form), could we be reaching the day, soon, that all meaningful live sports (with the NFL probably being the last holdout in the next three years or so) are either on Peacock, Disney+, or Paramount+, or whatever FOX might come up with for their libraries???

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