Major League Soccer (MLS) agrees to 10-year, $2.5 billion TV deal with Apple; MLS games will no longer be on local TV
Did they?
the NBA has the resources to make there own app... and service... while maintaining local/cable deals..
Less options is always a bad thing. More hoops is always a bad thing. You must have missed how pissed Yankee fans were with the team signing an exclusive deal with Apple for most of their Friday games.
Again that lacks context of what people were doing to get the content in the first place.
I don’t know the ends and outs of the Yankee deal but that two vastly different demographics for certain.
I mean if the default is to not take all the factors into account then I guess I’m having the wrong discourse
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Yea Sounders up here get good support but even then I don't think folks would want to shell out money for Apple TV...
I reckon people will either just goto the matches in person or just not watch.
I'm not getting apple TV just to watch the Sounders..if I want to see them enough I'd shell out $80-150 to watch at the stadium.
Yea they should be putting pressure on reorganize the youth system here in America and youth academy setup.
Make youth academies easier to get into for poorer kids..especially immigrants...run em like the best run European academies are run.
It's on my list to see a Live Sounders game. It looks dope watching it on my direct kick MLS package via direct tv. My lil cousin plays now and his dad played over in London for a bit. The futbol bug is alive and well in America. I also played. My current girl played over in Germany .
Good deal especially if Deadline's report about no local blackouts or restrictions is true (The Athletic says otherwise).
MLS was previously on $90m per year from ESPN/FOX/Univision and apparently Fox wasn't really interested this time around. EPL gets $450m a year from NBC so $250m a year is a fair deal.
MLS was previously on $90m per year from ESPN/FOX/Univision and apparently Fox wasn't really interested this time around. EPL gets $450m a year from NBC so $250m a year is a fair deal.
It's the atmosphere...the chants, the drums, the March down to the stadium. Sounders and even down in Portland the supporters try to get that European match day experience.
I think that should be a focus of the clubs. Encourage supporter clubs....let them bring in drums...give em sections in the stadium,etc.
Not sure where you stay at, but yeah get out here to see a Seattle game. Usually rivalry week is in August and a good time to come when Portland is in town.
Youth soccer is growing here and the MLS academies are starting to put more effort/money/time into their youth programs. Seattle Sounders youth teams regularly play in international tournaments and win out against well known club teams youth players. MLS youth academy players do not have to pay if they make the academy team. With that said youth soccer is still way too much. Don't ask me how much I just paid to have my son join one of the top clubs in the area.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
I’m a STH for NYCFC, so from a home game perspective I’m unaffected. I do think no blackouts is appealing but I hate having to sign up for another streaming service. You see his every network has a streaming service? Now it’s like that but for leagues and for someone like myself who woulda canceled Amazon Prime if not for exclusive Yankee games, it’s just unnecessary. I hope it grows the league and I get it. I just prefer options that don’t require streams.
You forget there are a lot of foreigners currently living in the US who follow soccer?
