Scripps Sports Brian Lawlor joins the Monty show to talk about sports TV rights, and how difficult the business model is in the current climate. Plus what role will streaming play in new deals and how important is the mobile phone in the equation of TV rights deals?

Scripps Sports- Looking for Pro Teams (Bally RSN Bankruptcy), Not interested in Pac12 rights


Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GQplUHjUp0

Though most of Scripps' 61 TV stations are affiliates of the Big 4 broadcast networks, the company also owns many unaffiliated broadcast stations.

-Scripps announced the launch of a sports division that will seek to acquire sports rights for its local broadcast stations nationwide as well as the national network Ion, which Scripps acquired last year.

- Lawlor wants to fill those stations with live games to help teams reach fans who have left the cable bundle or are subscribed to the wrong pay-TV service.

-"If we can't make money on it, we're not going to do it. The teams that are in a business relationship currently with the RSNs are not going to get what they used to," he said.

- One way they’ll think about deals differently: incorporating streaming, merchandising, ticketing and sports betting.


Link
https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/20...-broadcast

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