I was wondering about this, since this is what ESPN seems to do (or at least I noticed them doing it when I had DirectTV) - creating new channels, mostly to deal with blackout situations. And yet, NBC seems to prefer to preempt programming on regular cable channels to crating new ones (for the most part, with exceptions noted in last Summer Games). That makes me think that either there are some limitations, or it is not as profitable, or maybe they find viewership is higher on familiar channels (which I guess is a variation on the profitability explanation).
As noted this is not an immediate issue. But it seems clear that offering multiple Olympic channels, in addition to real-time and on demand online acccess to every event, is now the state of the art in televising the Olympics, and anyone thinking about bidding for the rights in the future is going to have to figure out a way to do this. Also - as noted elsewhere by me and others, CBS All Access SUCKS. Partly I just think that should be repeated at least once a week someplace on the internet, but also worth noting that would have to be significantly improved if it was a primary way for CBS to offer Olympic content. On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 7:26 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > > Adam Bowie, to David Bruggeman: > >> In an age where distribution is digital, is it not possible to just >> "pop-up" temporary channels for the duration of the Games? I realise that >> the broadcaster would need to organise carriage agreements with just about >> every major cable and satellite platform, but there really shouldn't be >> capacity issues in this day and age. And for something like the Olympics, >> would you want to be the carrier that doesn't offer viewers everything? >> >> >> Like I noted elsewhere, NBC did just that in the Rio de Janeiro Games > with basketball and soccer (football) channels, so it's doable. > > The only question would be whether and which channels would be available > to all customers of a provider, or require a higher-than-basic level of > service, which was what turned out widely with the Rio additions. > > > B > > -- > 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. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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.
