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Pac-12 reportedly in talks with Apple about media rights

Before the new TV deals are consummated, the PACN will be sold to Amazon, Apple, YouTube TV/Google or some other deep pocketed streamer in order to facilitate their entry into premium live sports production. Or Disney/ESPN will attempt (again) to buy out PACN in order to prevent the purchase by another streamer.
 
I know everyone hates cable and I know it's a little way off, but these moves scare me to some extent. If I were only a fan of watching ISU sports, this would be great, but I have a feeling, eventually to watch all the games I currently watch, I'm going to have to subscribe to 10 different streaming services. And in the end, it won't be any cheaper than cable, just more of a PIA. Instead of switching channels to go back to game A from game B, I'll have to exit and load a new streaming service.
 
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As I predicted 10 years ago. What I foresee now is 'individual' pay-per-view, team packages, tier packages (ie conference), and national packages. With digital payment it'll become painless (except on the bottom line). This shifts the power of the option to the University which is the right thing because they own the cost of the production. 'Pattern'
viewership will be determined and 'very' custom packages tailored to your individual desire will surface. In 10 years, you'll have 1 package fitted to ALL your sports desires with advertising always tempting you to 'expand' your package.
 
Clonefan94 said:
I know everyone hates cable and I know it's a little way off, but these moves scare me to some extent. If I were only a fan of watching ISU sports, this would be great, but I have a feeling, eventually to watch all the games I currently watch, I'm going to have to subscribe to 10 different streaming services. And in the end, it won't be any cheaper than cable, just more of a PIA. Instead of switching channels to go back to game A from game B, I'll have to exit and load a new streaming service.
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Cord-cutting won’t stop bundling imo, just removes some middlemen.

Given what these streaming services are paying for exclusive rights to shows like The Office, they’ll eventually grab exclusive rights to live sports imo.
 
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Clonefan94 said:
I know everyone hates cable and I know it's a little way off, but these moves scare me to some extent. If I were only a fan of watching ISU sports, this would be great, but I have a feeling, eventually to watch all the games I currently watch, I'm going to have to subscribe to 10 different streaming services. And in the end, it won't be any cheaper than cable, just more of a PIA. Instead of switching channels to go back to game A from game B, I'll have to exit and load a new streaming service.
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There is going to be growing pains with streaming, the next few years are going to be awful for people who like to watch all sports, not just their favorite teams. We have directv, every sports package we can get and I still need ESPN+ or ACC/B1G/SEC's version of the same thing to watch certain games, despite already paying for those networks with my current DTV package. The streaming services are also much more tedious to navigate and make it tough to switch over really quick to a different channel to watch the end of a game with buffering and such. They are designed for casual fans who like to watch their teams, there isn't a great option for rabid fans yet.
 
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Cord-cutting won’t stop bundling imo, just removes some middlemen.

Given what these streaming services are paying for exclusive rights to shows like The Office, they’ll eventually grab exclusive rights to live sports imo.
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Yeah, but for me, that middle man provides an invaluable service for sports. I love my back button on Saturdays. It brings up the last 10 channels I visited, so it's easy to check out games during commercials of ISU games or because another game got boring. Having to start up Apple TV for PAC games, then close that to open Amazon for SEC, close that to open Netflix for an ISU game .
 
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Clonefan94 said:
Yeah, but for me, that middle man provides an invaluable service for sports. I love my back button on Saturdays. It brings up the last 10 channels I visited, so it's easy to check out games during commercials of ISU games or because another game got boring. Having to start up Apple TV for PAC games, then close that to open Amazon for SEC, close that to open Netflix for an ISU game .
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I think it's more likely that streaming devices will change to add that kind of feature. Just gotta wait for the hardware/software to catch up to demand.
 
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Clonefan94 said:
I know everyone hates cable and I know it's a little way off, but these moves scare me to some extent. If I were only a fan of watching ISU sports, this would be great, but I have a feeling, eventually to watch all the games I currently watch, I'm going to have to subscribe to 10 different streaming services. And in the end, it won't be any cheaper than cable, just more of a PIA. Instead of switching channels to go back to game A from game B, I'll have to exit and load a new streaming service.
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Certainly a heck of a lot harder than hitting the back button on the remote. But everyone got greedy and companies always have to have MOAR.
 
Apple is also talking with MGM to gain subscribers for AppleTV+. I’m heavily invested in Apple products, but AppleTV+ just hasn’t caught my attention the way Disney+/ESPN+/Hulu has.
 
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As I predicted 10 years ago. What I foresee now is 'individual' pay-per-view, team packages, tier packages (ie conference), and national packages. With digital payment it'll become painless (except on the bottom line). This shifts the power of the option to the University which is the right thing because they own the cost of the production. 'Pattern'
viewership will be determined and 'very' custom packages tailored to your individual desire will surface. In 10 years, you'll have 1 package fitted to ALL your sports desires with advertising always tempting you to 'expand' your package.
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I shall deem you nostracymus
 
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