How much money could the NFL make off a digital network(like MLB.tv)?

[jadillac]

Let's say instead of the exclusive DTV Sunday Ticket contract they have, let's say they did something like MLB.tv. Just to be radical, let's price it at $75(tho most ppl would certainly pay more) for the entire season.

This allows you all the same benefits of the current Sunday Ticket, but in addition you also have the ability to go back and watch any game from anytime during that season, you get the home/away team broadcast, you can jump to scoring points in the game.

They can blackout any local games in your area so you have to watch them on TV. Only drawback might be that in case of an often boring SNF/MNF matchup, people won't watch and will instead watch a game from earlier that day or the day before.

As far as performance, I have the MLB.tv app on ROKU and it works PERFECTLY.

However much the NFL's DTV contract is, it'd be crushed by people who would sign up for this digital network. It'd make the NFL even more popular than it is.

They've gotta at least have it in the works or in secret discussion.

 

[jadillac]

 

[unit321]

Let's say instead of the exclusive DTV Sunday Ticket contract they have, let's say they did something like MLB.tv. Just to be radical, let's price it at $75(tho most ppl would certainly pay more) for the entire season.

This allows you all the same benefits of the current Sunday Ticket, but in addition you also have the ability to go back and watch any game from anytime during that season, you get the home/away team broadcast, you can jump to scoring points in the game.

They can blackout any local games in your area so you have to watch them on TV. Only drawback might be that in case of an often boring SNF/MNF matchup, people won't watch and will instead watch a game from earlier that day or the day before.

As far as performance, I have the MLB.tv app on ROKU and it works PERFECTLY.

However much the NFL's DTV contract is, it'd be crushed by people who would sign up for this digital network. It'd make the NFL even more popular than it is.

They've gotta at least have it in the works or in secret discussion.

I don't know if the NFL would want to do it.
They make a crap-ton of cash with the major networks so why change the business model? A lot of advertising dollars are made with existing business connections.

 

[*Hulks Up*]

Sites like FR servers would overload if NFL took a DirectTV only broadcast approach. There would be an outrage, even with the baseball deal there was something of an outcry with the MLB.

Most people have basic cable (like me, for instance) or worse, so a DTV deal would hurt fans, it's the MLB deal that helps play into the NFL in a way since most are willing to give up on watching baseball and which to football then pay $40-50 a month.

I really don't see how a DTV deal would help the NFL's popularity in anyway when satellite isn't even as big as cable or regular/digital yet.

 

[jadillac]

I don't know if the NFL would want to do it.
They make a crap-ton of cash with the major networks so why change the business model? A lot of advertising dollars are made with existing business connections.

Well there would still be advertising. People pay for Hulu and still have to sit thru ads/commercials.

But if you consider how many NFL fans there are, lets call it an even $100 bucks for a digital service, millions of fans would subscribe. They'd make WAY more money on top of what they already get.

You think advertisers wouldn't be lining up to be apart of a digital NFL Network?

 

[*Hulks Up*]

Well there would still be advertising. People pay for Hulu and still have to sit thru ads/commercials.

But if you consider how many NFL fans there are, lets call it an even $100 bucks for a digital service, millions of fans would subscribe. They'd make WAY more money on top of what they already get.

You think advertisers wouldn't be lining up to be apart of a digital NFL Network?

Do you mean like a PPV type set up for games?

 

[jadillac]

Do you mean like a PPV type set up for games?

No, I mean like exactly what MLB.TV is. You can watch any LIVE game(out of market) and you can go back watch any game from that season.

Currently you can only watch any NFL game if you have Direct TV Sunday Ticket....obviously they pay the NFL for this exclusivity. But even then, you can't go back and watch games that are already over with.....which is a problem b/c you can really only watch 1 game at a time. If there's 3 competitive games on at once, you're gonna miss the other 2.

But w/ a network like MLB has, you can go back and watch any game. Whatever DTV is paying them for the Sunday Ticket contract, they can make way more by offering a digital network to all fans(that have high-speed internet or mobile data) and at a cheaper price(although I doubt the NFL cares about saving fans money)

I can't imagine this isn't already being discussed by NFL officials

 

[jadillac]

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/16/directv-nfl-sunday-ticket-standalone/

I called it..........I'm gonna go buy a lotto ticket.