(02-21-2023 10:17 AM)Bill Wrote:  

(02-21-2023 09:53 AM)JMad03 Wrote:  

(02-20-2023 07:26 PM)MarginalDuke Wrote:  

(02-20-2023 07:19 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(02-20-2023 06:35 PM)hburg Wrote:  San Diego to the Pac12 per SDSU AD https://www.outkick.com/san-diego-state-...12-report/

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It's believed PAC needs SDSU/SMU for a pending media deal, potentially streaming oriented with amazon and/or others.

Amazon has also been rumored to be considering spinning off sports streaming package for an additional fee, separate from prime. Might create a legit ESPN competitor, or could just be Flo on steroids.

That would be interested in they started a sports spin off. Probably without the adequate inventory, they’d be Flo 2.0 early on. If they can build up the inventory over time they could legitimately threaten ESPN. They are going to need to acquire a lot more leagues. Network externalities help ESPN right now.

The problem with Flo is not only its limited scope, but they charge way too much and the quality of content is lacking (to put it nicely).
Amazon has a lot of content and already has a lot of people on the platform. I would guess that it will be included in Prime, but I could be wrong. Plus Amazon has had live events in the past and the quality puts Flo to shame. Then again, almost anything puts Flo to shame.

Flo, admittedly, absolutely sucked when it came to CAA coverage and their interface is a disaster but I have to give them props on their wrestling coverage.
If you have a high school or college wrestler, as I do, a Flo subscription is a must. They cover hundreds of meets across the US and, for each meet, they provide weight class brackets, mat assignments, match times, alarms for when your wrestler's match is about to start, and you can view up to 4 matches at once. My son can watch virtually all of his previous matches and can also watch previous matches of opponents he's going to be facing, plus his college recruiters have access to watch his previous matches, too. But with that said, I'm glad that's all I use it for now.

I'm a fan of drum and bugle corps and Flo is pretty much the only place to watch them. The product used to be absolutely awful, but they have done a better job. They cover a lot of events throughout the summer and most importantly the World Championships.
I didn't know their coverage of wrestling, so that's really cool. Without them, you wouldn't be able to watch, so I suppose they do deserve credit for covering things that other places won't and to a high degree.
Flo isn't evil, but having a major collegiate sport there is not great. The worst part about the media deal is that it made fans of the school essentially pay for the media deal. We lost MadiZONE (which was free) due to Flo. The blame falls more on the conference and its schools than it does with Flo, though.