https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1663345260968267776?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
It just me or the bourgeois going more mask off with their kill the poor shit than usual?
Ask a question on Twitter and you'll get a hundred replies that amount to "Fuck you, dumbass, you suck"
Barring that, its a serious query. People used to watch TV live over the air for free. Now everything is behind some absurd paywall. So who is able to watch it that isn't pirating it? A handful of CHUDs with a twenty different $100/mo streaming packages?
Pay Per View killed boxing as a spectator sport. If I was sitting on the corner of a multi-billion dollar basketball franchise, I'd be curious to see if we'd just done the same thing to the NBA or if people were actually watching but on the gray market.
it's absolutely crazy that the pro sports don't make it as easy as possible to watch the games
they make tons of money on all the ancillary stuff like merchandise and licensing, but they're too focused on profit extraction to even grow the spectator base
Historically they have. Baseball stadiums are notorious for the loss leader strategy of $10 tickets and $20 hot dogs.
But the bidding war for broadcast rights has been insane.
It's still generally pretty easy to catch a local sports team on OTA in the states. At least compared to Canada. We've been in a hell where cable is mandatory if you follow the raptors or jays for decades now, same with if you want more than 1 NHL game a week. Almost all of the OTA channels here are owned by either the main cable company or the main satellite company lol.
Honestly Canada rules on telecom, there's essentially a duopoly. Somehow the regulators are maintaining a system that allows subsellers to exist, even though all of the news is running propaganda against it (because the news is owned by the telecom giants).
A broadcast company shouldn't be allowed to own exclusive rights on Canada's only baseball team just because they own that team, but here we are.
Roger's buying the Jays should've been stopped but of course it wasn't.
Baseball is kinda dead and kinda isn't.
I'm in Canada, so the latino immigrants we get are the soccer kind and not the baseball kind, so the only people into it are mostly white guys over 40. This is also why soccer is becoming bigger in Canada even though it was always big by the amount of kids playing it (probably bigger than hockey because hockey more expensive), but not amount of people watching it.
In the USA with baseball, it helps that it's on free-to-air TV, but problem is many people aren't bothering with antennas so won't watch it if it's free on the airwaves, but might if it's free on the web (which it isn't because baseball streaming rights are a mess).
I think it's just that the viewers are getting older on average, and it didn't flashy reinvent itself constantly like NBA or NFL. Also it's already everywhere so it's not trying to constantly expand like the NHL does into non-hockey states.
In the USA with baseball, it helps that it’s on free-to-air TV
it's not tho and hasn't been for decades
it's not pay-per-view but most baseball games are broadcast by regional sports networks carried by basic cable
I guess my relatives in Buffalo have a special situation, they're yankees fans since they get the games on local antenna.
It was funny when the Bluejays were in Buffalo during the travel restrictions, every red sox or Yankees game was basically a road game lol.
ah that explains why friend's family in northern NY are all yankees fans
Cuban is weird in some aspects. He has that cost plus drug thing, for instance, where they manufacturing generic drugs for cheaper (or that's what he claims anyways). He seems to be the type of business guy who would question whether or not the NBA is handling it's content distribution in the best way. It's still about making more money, though.
One of the funniest episodes of the Worst Year Ever podcast was after they did an episode or maybe one of the youtube news videos where they dunked on billionaires. They had already sold themselves to iHeart media so I guess they no longer had executive control over their shit, and that resulted in them having to interview Mark Cuban on their podcast because he wanted to "rebut" the stuff they'd said. It's been a long time since I listened to it but it was so clear that they didn't want to do it and were forced into being nice to Mark Fucking Cuban.
Personally, I would have quit, but then again I'm not personal friends with Federal Evans so I guess I'm not "the type".
Guys is anyone else illegally organizing against the state? Wanna see how prevalent that is
:fedposting: DM me if you wanna get in on some really cool "praxis", as the hip kids say
"Raise your hand if you have done drugs before"
Sheepish children look around, some of them timidly raise their hands
"Take em away boys!"
That's a decent thing to try to find out because when the service gets more convenient and cheaper less people pirate. My friends who were torrenting everything in the past now are more likely to see something on a streaming service
that said idk how a Twitter post is going to give you good answers
I thought that initially too but if that's the case, wouldn't he get a vastly higher sample size if it was done with anonymous polling?
"Ok guys! Leave a public comment if you partake in super problematic genres of CW erotic literature."
I think I'm remembering this right, but there was a period where Netflix was looking at the most torrented movies/series in order to pull them into their platform
The fact that stonks alone and being in the right place at the right time can make parasites like this fuck rich is one of the many reasons to hate everything about America
"Raise your hand if you've committed murder."
You shouldn't have answered that! Get 'em to the wringer!
