About a month ago, All Things Digital's Peter Kafka floated the idea of the major players in Net video streaming approaching commissioner Roger Goodell *et al* about what could happen once DirecTV's Sunday Ticket (out-of-market) rights end after the 2014 season.
http://allthingsd.com/20130719/how-google-or-apple-could-make-web-tv-a-reality-spend-billions-on-the-nfl/ Well, earlier today (20), sources told Kafka that Google chief Larry Page and YouTube honcho Robert Kyncl met with the commish and other league folks, and the Ticket was reportedly among the topics in the informal chat... and this piece adds that Goodell's doing the same with "multiple Silicon Valley companies"... http://allthingsd.com/20130820/is-google-ready-to-buy-its-way-into-tv-with-an-nfl-deal/?mod=tweet -- B. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
