There was talk of HBO GO being made available to the cordless as well. Right now I suspect many of the cord nevers are using their mom's/uncle's/coworker's cable password. I have a friend who has a whole password chain going at his office - one person gives a DirecTV password while the other gives their Netflix and the third passes on a Time Warner password. The rest of the cord nevers never were interested in live spectator sports anyway, since virtually every scripted program is available on demand for a reasonable price anywhere from the day to one year after it airs. When some of the cord nevers have kids who are striking on their own, the NBA is going to lose those eyeballs.
One interesting hypothesis why sports attendance of non-NFL sports have dropped is that kids don't casually watch games anymore. Either they live in a household with 500 choices, where the Lakers game is on channel 235, buried with all the sports channels but not near any of the entertainment channels, or they don't have cable (or the right pay TV provider) and can't watch. So you're getting fewer people caring, but those people are caring more. The issue comes in when these sports team owners want public money for their franchises to build a stadium, arena, or whatever. Perhaps not now, but 10-20 years down the line, will the average person feel the connection to the team such that they are willing to support giving money? The NBA, who caters to a younger demographic, is trying to be top-of-mind among the youth, which bodes well for their future. The NFL, as long as it gets all those ratings, will safely stay on broadcast TV. Meanwhile, hockey is withering since it's on a channel that is not top-of-mind to the casual person. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:51 PM, 'Greg Diener' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > Downside nine more years of Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson > ruining games will have me scrambling for the mute button on my remote. > > Greg > > > On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:32:27 PM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote: >> >> >> But unlike their peers in major sports, the hoopsters plan to make their >> digital product available even to the TV-less. >> >> Media Life >> <http://www.medialifemagazine.com/nba-scores-big-with-new-rights-deal/> >> (link) >> >> 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
