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Amazon has bid on Disney's 22 regional sports networks that it gained when it purchased television and movie assets from Fox. The Justice Department made Disney divest itself of those properties to close the deal on the Fox assets. While Fox hasn't placed a bid for the 22 regional sports networks in round 1 of the sale, it still has a chance to place a bid in round 2. Some analysts think that Amazon purchasing the channels is a bad omen for cable TV as Amazon could roll the channels into its Amazon Prime package as added value. Also it would give Amazon access to 44 Major League Baseball games and the YES Network (New York Yankees games) to broadcast as social media companies like Facebook and Google seek to procure more live sporting events to attract consumers to their services. Live sporting events are one of the main reasons why cable TV customers subscribe to the service.

Selling sports rights to a giant like Amazon, with a market capitalization of more than $700 billion, could spur other technology giants like Apple, Google and Facebook to bid on sports rights to stay competitive. The sports rights for the big professional leagues are locked up through 2020. Traditional media players such as Disney, CBS, Comcast's NBC and AT&T's DirecTV and Time Warner dominate the landscape. When current rights deals expire, tech giants could conceivably outbid the traditional media players for exclusive or digital-only rights, assuming the leagues themselves are willing to abandon traditional partners.
 
Please Amazon do lock up all that sports shit away on your "network" where I never have to hear about it again.
 
The only television sporting events that aren't dying double time are the NFL and FIFA.

The NFL on TV is dying single time, and FIFA is some other kind of strange creature.

Honestly, streaming probably makes more sense for many sporting events. Times are wonky when sports are played all over the world, watching Leicester City on your phone on a bus is probably better than a DVR hours or days later.
 
Yanno, considering the absolute cluster fuck sports has turned into where due to various entities locking up exclusivity rights, and by entities I don't mean channels I mean the people who own the channels, so if you have DirecTV you might be able to watch the local baseball team because Comcast secured those rights, and all of that shit passed onto consumers with the infamous "fees" that show up on your bill namely the "Regional Sports Fee". Football has been the only sport I care about over the last couple decades, and I'm lucky local games are still played on OTA channels, but having seen Thursday Night Football shown on Amazon Prime video, Monday Night Football played on ESPN (not good for cord cutters) I just want to fucking say stop.

But if it happens, then fuck it, I just freed up 3-4 hours on a Sunday afternoon.

At the end of the day, it's local teams who whore their games out to various entities so if the SF Giants don't want me to watch them because I'm not a Comcast customer then fuck 'em... seriously... fuck 'em up the ass with a Cactus because over the years me not watching the Giants still cost me hundreds of dollars in "regional sports fees"
 
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything....the IBM stellarsphere, the Microsoft galaxy, planet Starbucks...

And here's me, trying...real....hard....to give a fuck.
 
Yes. They will buy it, add it to Prime, and claim it adds value. Then they'll turn around and say we've added tons of value to Prime, time to increase the price....again.
 
The best part about cord cutting is not having to subsidize morons who watch adults chase a ball. It's probably safe to assume this will no longer be the case in the near future.
I don't disagree entirely. You should not have to pay for something if you're not using it.
I'd also love to see cities not bending over backwards to see how fast they can give away taxpayer money on stadiums/tax breaks/land deals/etc

When I'm in the US, if I want to see a baseball game I'll go see the minor league team in my area. I watch high school games if I feel like watching football. There isn't much hockey where I live in the States and that's a shame as I enjoy watching the sport sometimes. I refuse to pay the exorbinant prices to see pro teams play + parking + expensive concession pricing + my tax dollars when watching semi-pros and young athletes is a more enjoyable experience by almost any metric as far as I'm concerned.
 
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So long as it doesn't get shoe horned into the rate I pay increasing my monthly for shit I'll never watch, idgaf.
 
The only television sporting events that aren't dying double time are the NFL and FIFA.

The NFL on TV is dying single time, and FIFA is some other kind of strange creature.

Honestly, streaming probably makes more sense for many sporting events. Times are wonky when sports are played all over the world, watching Leicester City on your phone on a bus is probably better than a DVR hours or days later.

FIFA is a world wide audience, NFL, NHL, NBA are not
 
not a sports watcher but i dont view it as bad. I don't have a TV so i can't watch sports (legally) so i watch on a pirated stream if i do want to watch. Take all sports digital will solve that.
 
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