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Athens

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Posted: 12/14/2020 11:50 AM

Pataskala wrote:expand_more

Alan Swank wrote:expand_more

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I'd be very curious to see how the financials ended up on this weird little season. How much of a bath did we take to play these games? Or did the TV money off-set it?

You do not get as much TV money as you think.

Been saying this for years - nothing more than a kinard, a prevarication.

That's a "Natural" reaction, Alan.

The MAC may be seeing the writing on the wall for TV money and wanting to get it before it goes away. Disney is slowly cutting back on its investment in ESPN. It probably can't cut personnel expenses much more than it already has, so its next cutbacks will likely be in uneconomic rights fees.

In five years time I suspect attitudes around an all streaming TV deal will progress even further. Then the MAC could go back to playing Saturdays or at least cut the weekday package in half w/o the ESPNU/ESPN3 games.

According to this article back in August only 16% of households are cable only without streaming subscriptions. Every TV sold above the $200 dollar price now is integrated with Roku or at a very minimum a way to access Netflix.

https://deadline.com/2020/08/more-than-half-of-u-s-househ... /

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