(Sawchik) – La MLB prendra en charge la production des émissions télévisées de toute équipe qui ne parviendra pas à conclure un accord avec RSN/distributeurs, comme elle l’a fait avec les Padres et les DBacks en 2023.
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Par SoSublim3
Baseball
(Sawchik) – La MLB prendra en charge la production des émissions télévisées de toute équipe qui ne parviendra pas à conclure un accord avec RSN/distributeurs, comme elle l’a fait avec les Padres et les DBacks en 2023.
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Par SoSublim3
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[Sawchik] cont.
In that scenario for clubs, MLB finds a local cable/TV home for club and also adds an in-market, DTC streaming option for the club on MLBdotTV. Key point: in that scenario, local blackouts end.
https://x.com/travis_sawchik/status/1841564344368136566?s=46&t=CLVgCCh3GsaY8GPleL7DOg
woo hoo!!!
Wake me up when this shit is over, man. I’m tired of getting my hopes up.
In this scenario how is team revenue determined? Fixed rate or something else?
Prior to the bankruptcy stuff TV was our largest revenue stream by a good margin. We had to cut some payroll this year because of the reduced contract and uncertainty.
So would it be fair for some teams to have no blackouts while others do?
The MLB broadcast is a million times better than Bally. My only real complaint is the lack of a real pre-game show but that is pretty minor compared to everything else.
Get ready to lose any pregame show. Padres definitely lost revenue overall from the loss of the TV deal. Was hoping that be year 3 maybe there would be some streaming deal in place already for the league, but nope. This whole thing finally falling apart is probably for the best. I would love if Apple or Amazon just decides to get the whole package and stream all teams. Fuck the blackouts.
Sounds good upfront, but this will be terrible for the teams involved. Most team budgets rely on hugely inflated TV deals in order to get by. A DTC streaming service will not pull in anywhere near enough to fill that void even without blackouts. Gonna see a bunch of payrolll slashing and stadium price increases
This is something the league needed to get ahead of so long ago
Television is still a lot more important than a lot of people realize, TV ratings are still the #1 indicator of cultural relevance and TV deals for live sports are actually at all-time highs because of the « DVR-proof » nature of sports content, but *local* television is becoming extinct because it just isn’t enough eyeballs for localized content to be worth anything
This is what illustrates the difference between Bud Selig and Rob Manfred’s MLB IMO – Selig started MLB Advanced Media and MLB TV long before anyone was thinking about these types of products, a large portion of the US wasn’t even on fast enough internet for it yet but he saw the future and made the proactive investment. Manfred has changed the mentality from proactive to reactive, and it seems like a problem has to reach its absolute lowest point and become a full blown shitstorm before Manfred acts on it.
The should let Apple take them and I’m serious. The Apple broadcast with locks announcers would be lit