Don’t forget, there’s only 34 regular-season matches in MLS (Mar-Oct), vs 82 in the NBA. Parts of eight months, with fewer matches….
And as an auditor, I have to ask - where’s #3? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2022, at 09:52, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’m not a follower of MLS, but I am interested in this model for presenting a > sports league. My interest is in a couple of things: > > 1. Pricing: NBA League Pass is $30/Month, which is about $180 for the season. > This is the premium package (no ads, two simultaneous streams per game). > Standard (with ads, one stream) is half that. Both black out local games and > games on national networks. The NBA is more popular than MLS, but their > package is more restricted. Also, Apple just paid a ton, but even without ads > they don’t have to make that all back in subscription fees. Maybe $150/year > (no ads)? Are their really enough US soccer fans willing to pay substantially > more? > > 2. Coverage. For the most part, I don’t like the fractured coverage of MLB > and NBA. I would rather TNT do all NBA games and ESPN do all MLB. I liked the > days when one network did all NFL/NFC games and the other all AFL/AFC. Deals > like Apple could bring that back. > > 4. “Journalistic” integrity. ESPN has always had this fiction of a wall > separating their sports journalism from their sports partnerships. It is 75% > BS, as is similar claims at other broadcast and cable networks. But not 100%. > There is some sense in which the credibility of the sports department at each > network provides some kind of brake on the most egregious dishonest hyping of > the sports leagues the network is in partnership with. But will that be true > at Apple? HBO used to present tennis, and still does boxing (though the > latter may be more an illustration of the problem). If there are drug, sexual > assault, financial, other scandals at MLS, how will Apple investigate, or > even communicate, it? Would they even feel an obligation to pretend they were > reporting on that, without a separate in house spirts department whose > reputation they care about? Will Apple become the Fox News of MLS, > functioning as a PR and propaganda arm, and nothing else? > >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 1:30 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> *Every* match, without blackouts or restrictions, for $2 billion. >> >> https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-and-mls-to-present-all-mls-matches-for-10-years-beginning-in-2023/ >> >> -- >> 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]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bccc9Y9iwfoVCmsJC-%2BaV5T6JaztnxBFoCh9pwNEoF8hg%40mail.gmail.com. > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLbhk2eCt%3Ds98%2B8QBP%3D25fKDfdTb6xg2BWoFVqyFigMRw%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/317491AC-D9C5-4CB1-A201-3AAD18B34F44%40suddenlink.net.
