ESPN+ is perfect for me. Plus I can rewatch a game and keep tabs on fellow SBC teams.

(01-23-2024 09:44 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  "Netflix to Pay $5 Billion for ‘WWE Raw’ Rights in Live Events Push
Multiyear agreement includes exclusive U.S. and international streaming rights"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netfl...lead_pos10

IMO, it is inevitable entities like Amazon and Netflix will increase their sports presence.

1. Mods, shoudl this be it's own thread? Netflix getting into the "broadcasting live events with an audience of millions" business is a big step.

2. I'm a little surprised that Netflix did this. They've been doing well with avoiding the challenges of streaming live mass-audience events.

It's pretty easy to imagine a WWE-Netflix deal that would play to Netflix' strengths, giving Netflix 24-hours-later rebroadcast rights, and /or a studio show that does this week's highlights, and let someone else pay for the rights to live-broadcast RAW. Nobody would really care if "WWE This Week" lagged on NEtflix, while if a live broadcast lags that's a Big Problem.

Netflix has now committed to solving those problems.

(01-23-2024 11:42 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(01-23-2024 09:44 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  "Netflix to Pay $5 Billion for ‘WWE Raw’ Rights in Live Events Push
Multiyear agreement includes exclusive U.S. and international streaming rights"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netfl...lead_pos10

IMO, it is inevitable entities like Amazon and Netflix will increase their sports presence.

1. Mods, shoudl this be it's own thread? Netflix getting into the "broadcasting live events with an audience of millions" business is a big step.

2. I'm a little surprised that Netflix did this. They've been doing well with avoiding the challenges of streaming live mass-audience events.

It's pretty easy to imagine a WWE-Netflix deal that would play to Netflix' strengths, giving Netflix 24-hours-later rebroadcast rights, and /or a studio show that does this week's highlights, and let someone else pay for the rights to live-broadcast RAW. Nobody would really care if "WWE This Week" lagged on NEtflix, while if a live broadcast lags that's a Big Problem.

Netflix has now committed to solving those problems.

I’ve been listening to “The Town” podcast with Matthew Belloni (which is a fantastic podcast about what’s going on in the media and entertainment business) and one clear theme that has emerged over the past year is that all of the streamers, including Netflix, make more money per user on their respective ad tiers even though those subscribers are paying a lower monthly fee compared to ad-free subscribers. Essentially, it’s recreating the dual revenue stream of cable with both subscriber fees and advertising revenue.

As a result, you’re seeing streamers doing things to push more people to their ad tiers, whether it’s making the subscriber price for ad tiers a lot lower or having additional charges for ad-free tiers (which is what Amazon Prime Video is about to do).

At the same time, this is why Netflix is getting into live programming. It’s straight up about selling ads. You’re correct that Netflix, for whatever reason, hasn’t had a great track record of showing live programs well from a technical perspective. However, that doesn’t matter - they will (or have to) figure it out because the future says that the way to maximize revenue is to sell ads and live programming (particularly sports programming) is the single best way to sell ads. Heck, even if you’re an ad-free subscriber, you *still* see the ads on sports and other live programming.

(01-23-2024 11:42 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(01-23-2024 09:44 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  "Netflix to Pay $5 Billion for ‘WWE Raw’ Rights in Live Events Push
Multiyear agreement includes exclusive U.S. and international streaming rights"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netfl...lead_pos10

IMO, it is inevitable entities like Amazon and Netflix will increase their sports presence.

1. Mods, shoudl this be it's own thread? Netflix getting into the "broadcasting live events with an audience of millions" business is a big step.

2. I'm a little surprised that Netflix did this. They've been doing well with avoiding the challenges of streaming live mass-audience events.

It's pretty easy to imagine a WWE-Netflix deal that would play to Netflix' strengths, giving Netflix 24-hours-later rebroadcast rights, and /or a studio show that does this week's highlights, and let someone else pay for the rights to live-broadcast RAW. Nobody would really care if "WWE This Week" lagged on NEtflix, while if a live broadcast lags that's a Big Problem.

Netflix has now committed to solving those problems.

I can't believe that many people watch that crap.