The article below is about how and where we get television content may change radically in the future. It may become impossible to get all your desired content from a single provider and individual content producers seek to fence off their content restricting access to their own portals.

It got me to thinking---my concern is something similar may happen to college football. I could see conferences breaking off and distributing their own content via thier own streaming sites---or the Balkanization could fall all the way down to an individual school basis. Having to buy individual school packages would be the ultimate nightmare for college football fans.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018...d=tw-share

I expect that no matter what happens with cable or streaming, there will still be significant live football content available OTA, on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. If the worst case you describe comes to pass, I imagine I would just have to settle for what I can get OTA. I probably watch too much sports now anyway, just because I can.

(07-27-2018 12:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  I expect that no matter what happens with cable or streaming, there will still be significant live football content available OTA, on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. If the worst case you describe comes to pass, I imagine I would just have to settle for what I can get OTA. I probably watch too much sports now anyway, just because I can.

I want to see Boise State be on ABC or other networks. Not on the rinky dinky CBS Sports who do not make their network not accessible to people.

I remember Grambling State Vs Southern U. play on NBC on Thanksgiving. That game got pushed to Saturday after Thanksgiving to be placed on NBC Network. The ratings tanked since the move.

The problem with some of these conferences are that you have the best teams faces cupcakes in the conference games that people will not want to watch. Big 12 is facing that issue right now. You need quality of the content that people will want to watch. Rice, Tulsa, Tulane, SMU are all teams that people talk about P5 conference for their academics. That problem is wrong. You get to add more cupcakes that people will not want to watch. Kansas is not even watchable right now. College sports is now more of a business right now. You try to do something, and if a product becomes stale and not holding up to what the consumers want? The businesses drop that product. Right now, you have some P5 schools that are weighting down the conference that comsumers do not want to watch. In a business world, schools like Kansas, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Duke, Wake Forest, Miami Florida, Rutgers and Virginia would have been cut to be replaced with products that people would want to watch. Since the P5 conferences have this big of ego for academics? They will not get people to watch the games if they keep showing losers on tv.

(07-27-2018 05:01 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(07-27-2018 12:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  I expect that no matter what happens with cable or streaming, there will still be significant live football content available OTA, on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. If the worst case you describe comes to pass, I imagine I would just have to settle for what I can get OTA. I probably watch too much sports now anyway, just because I can.

I want to see Boise State be on ABC or other networks. Not on the rinky dinky CBS Sports who do not make their network not accessible to people.

I remember Grambling State Vs Southern U. play on NBC on Thanksgiving. That game got pushed to Saturday after Thanksgiving to be placed on NBC Network. The ratings tanked since the move.

The problem with some of these conferences are that you have the best teams faces cupcakes in the conference games that people will not want to watch. Big 12 is facing that issue right now. You need quality of the content that people will want to watch. Rice, Tulsa, Tulane, SMU are all teams that people talk about P5 conference for their academics. That problem is wrong. You get to add more cupcakes that people will not want to watch. Kansas is not even watchable right now. College sports is now more of a business right now. You try to do something, and if a product becomes stale and not holding up to what the consumers want? The businesses drop that product. Right now, you have some P5 schools that are weighting down the conference that comsumers do not want to watch. In a business world, schools like Kansas, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Duke, Wake Forest, Miami Florida, Rutgers and Virginia would have been cut to be replaced with products that people would want to watch. Since the P5 conferences have this big of ego for academics? They will not get people to watch the games if they keep showing losers on tv.

(07-27-2018 12:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  I expect that no matter what happens with cable or streaming, there will still be significant live football content available OTA, on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. If the worst case you describe comes to pass, I imagine I would just have to settle for what I can get OTA. I probably watch too much sports now anyway, just because I can.

Truth be told I'd be 100% behind the ACC doing it's own OTA channel within the footprint and gradually expanding out from the footprint where it makes sense.

(07-29-2018 07:39 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-27-2018 05:01 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(07-27-2018 12:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  I expect that no matter what happens with cable or streaming, there will still be significant live football content available OTA, on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. If the worst case you describe comes to pass, I imagine I would just have to settle for what I can get OTA. I probably watch too much sports now anyway, just because I can.

I want to see Boise State be on ABC or other networks. Not on the rinky dinky CBS Sports who do not make their network not accessible to people.

I remember Grambling State Vs Southern U. play on NBC on Thanksgiving. That game got pushed to Saturday after Thanksgiving to be placed on NBC Network. The ratings tanked since the move.

The problem with some of these conferences are that you have the best teams faces cupcakes in the conference games that people will not want to watch. Big 12 is facing that issue right now. You need quality of the content that people will want to watch. Rice, Tulsa, Tulane, SMU are all teams that people talk about P5 conference for their academics. That problem is wrong. You get to add more cupcakes that people will not want to watch. Kansas is not even watchable right now. College sports is now more of a business right now. You try to do something, and if a product becomes stale and not holding up to what the consumers want? The businesses drop that product. Right now, you have some P5 schools that are weighting down the conference that comsumers do not want to watch. In a business world, schools like Kansas, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Duke, Wake Forest, Miami Florida, Rutgers and Virginia would have been cut to be replaced with products that people would want to watch. Since the P5 conferences have this big of ego for academics? They will not get people to watch the games if they keep showing losers on tv.

You just got "David Streeted"