The New York Post gets word that MLB may be moving toward a model where individual teams get local streaming rights:
The prospect for change is happening because MLB’s current contract with 22 Fox regional sports networks expires at year-end. As part of that deal, each RSN pays the league $2 million for those streaming rights.
Disney is in the process of selling the 22 RSNs as a condition of its $71 billion deal to buy the majority of Twenty-First Century Fox entertainment assets.
Now, though, the individual teams want in on the action, The Post has learned, which could mean the name of the game for baseball fans would be cutting cords and beefing up their broadband.NY Post
MLB favors a plan to transfer in-market streaming rights from the league to individual teams, three sources close to the talks said.
Right now, in order to stream local market games, one needs to subscribe to a cable provider that broadcasts those games. I assume under the model proposed above, anyone in the market with a broadband connection could subscribe.
The other interesting tidbit is the market for the games:
“The cord cutting is not the issue, it is the cord nevers,” a second source said.
Up to 30 percent of America’s 130 million households do not subscribe to a pay-TV service, a growing business segment that individual teams see as a rich source of new revenue.
This would be a welcome development.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2QWkyfw
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