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omg they admit it: "Programmers are caught in a perfect storm: content costs are rising while revenue is shrinking, both due to increased competition"

Posted by mr mooch (aka pickmix) Sep 23 '24, 16:32

a perfect storm entirely of their own making

https://deadline.com/2024/09/venu-sports-fubo-streaming-disney-fox-warner-bros-discovery-antitrust-lawsuit-1236097324/ (deadline.com)

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Costs are increasing and revenue is shrinking. This is some kind of incredible revelation? -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 23, 19:00 2
- "costs are increasing" is true insofar as the networks are willing to vastly overpay for league rights every cycle -- nm - mr mooch Sep 23, 19:03 1
  - "we don't have cable companies over a barrel anymore to extort carriage fees for ESPN anymore, save us judge!" -- nm - mr mooch Sep 23, 19:06
semi-related: are you ready for some Amazon-g hockey Canada? -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 23, 16:35 1
- I’ll be curious to see if they have games in Canada that I cannot access in the U.S. between TNT and ESPN. Because… VPN! -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 23, 19:24

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