Week 5
NATIONAL BROADCASTS
Thursday Night: Tampa Bay @ Atlanta (Amazon)
Sunday 9:30 AM ET: NY Jets vs Minnesota in London (NFLN; Rich Eisen, Kurt Warner)
Sunday Night: Dallas @ Pittsburgh (NBC) Monday Night: New Orleans @ Kansas City (ESPN)
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Guess I'll have to go to a sports bar due to the NFL's greed. I will not give any money to the pay networks just to watch a football game.
I understand but in this case it's no different than it was for many years of Monday Night Football being on ESPN only.
The last couple years it was also on ABC due to the lack programming as a result of actors/writers etc strikes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by HemiEd:
I understand but in this case it's no different than it was for many years of Monday Night Football being on ESPN only.
The last couple years it was also on ABC due to the lack programming as a result of actors/writers etc strikes.
I was wondering about that, because I've seen it on ABC sometimes and could never figure out the pattern. I saw something online that said something about key games being on ABC, so I was hopeful about this one. I guess the two-time world champions blowing out a party town team isn't important enough. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I was wondering about that, because I've seen it on ABC sometimes and could never figure out the pattern. I saw something online that said something about key games being on ABC, so I was hopeful about this one. I guess the two-time world champions blowing out a party town team isn't important enough.
Imo they are trying to drive people back to ESPN that have cut the cord with cable/satellite TV.
Direct TV just bought Dish for $1 and it gives them back the same number of customers they had many years ago. [Reply]
The networks usually have started their new season by now and have quit running reruns so ABC probably wants to run their new programs instead of duping ESPN a channel they own [Reply]
Originally Posted by HemiEd:
Imo they are trying to drive people back to ESPN that have cut the cord with cable/satellite TV.
Direct TV just bought Dish for $1 and it gives them back the same number of customers they had many years ago.
I read a sadly funny article recently about cable and streaming. It said that cable subscriptions are catastrophically falling, so cable providers are increasing costs and cutting services. At the same time, streaming services are struggling due to fragmentation of the market, so they're raising costs and cutting services. The article concluded by saying that every possible way to get service is increasing in cost and decreasing in quality. I would agree with that conclusion. [Reply]