Prestige for whom, the teams? Easier definitely, but I don't think it brings any prestige.A1B1C1D1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:17 pmIn truth I think this is impossible! There is a prestige factor in carrying sports which would be lost if the league carried all the games on its own carrier. The economic reality becomes which fans are willing to pay for a package of games or an entire league pass. With Philo and Sling chipping away at basic cable packages, baseball would wind up in the premium packages.
I like sports, but I don't like sports enough to pay $90 a month for them, or pay that to get the few channels I would watch. The days of the TV viewing population subsidizing sports are rapidly drawing to a close and not only do the sports teams need to reconcile that, but they'll also going to have to figure out why I should pay for programming that is also chocked full of advertising.
I'm definitely over college football games taking nearly four hours, and I don't pay for the ones I watch as their over the air. The NHL has pretty much made the game the second most important product with their animated advertising on the boards, so again why am I paying to watch the game?