Deadspin suggests that part of this may be the Yankees cashing out their profits from Yes and minimizing their risk for the obvious sports rights bubble popping that's coming.
John Malone's no dummy. He sees what everyone else sees right now. That said, I don't see the Feds intervening for the simple reason that there's no prudent interest (or political push) to make a change. Hell: the Feds seized the athde.com domain at the request of the leagues and cable companies, which just made them move to a non-US domain. Add to this the fact that Maryland and Rutgers are moving to the Big Ten for the sole purpose of suckling off the big teat that is the Big Ten Network, because there's absolutely no logical sports reason (and to make matters worse, Nate Silver pointed out that those markets aren't even particularly strong college sports fan bases). I don't have the stats in front of me, but I can tell you that the ad load for the F1 US Grand Prix had a significant number of DR spots in them, and this is for a sport that NBCSN just tripled their rights fees for earlier this year. And Fox was still too damn cheap to fly Bob, Steve, and David from Charlotte to Austin to call it live! The pop's comin' folks. And it's going to destroy organized sports as we know it. Except for the NFL: they'll kill themselves because football will die. On Nov 20, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: The deal is done, the *Times*<http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/news-corporation-completes-deal-for-stake-in-yes-network/>quotes sources, and even the Yanks will end up with a smaller stake... you can start envisioning that Fox Sports bug over that of YES in the corner... -- BOB -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
