Whooooaaaaa....Kirk Addresses Hawkeye Nation
- Thread starter Fryowa
- Start date
okeefe4prez
Well-Known Member
Absolutely disgusting that our university is now the mouthpiece for a company in a business dispute.
It is kind of odd ... but if Dish is not paying BTN then BTN has less revenue for Iowa and the other 13 teams feeding from the trough. I'm guessing this is all being driven at the request of Delaney.
Fryowa
Administrator
All I know is that if I were Hulu’s parent company I’d be all over these disputes as they happen across the country and take advantage of people’s anger to get them switching.
okeefe4prez
Well-Known Member
Agreed. But I think the streamers have to be careful because my guess is they are getting a much better deal than the old line cable providers and they don't want to be gored in the next round of renewals. Sling also lost FS1, but it is part of Dish. The content providers are scared shitless of the skinny bundle and cord cutters it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see how this is going to crater the revenues for the specialized college channels.
I side with Dish here. They aren't going to let Fox push them around and sign some shitty long term deal. The content is getting too damned expensive and people are not going to pay it, but the content providers know they can jam the cable companies and make them look like the bad guys. Delany did that when BTN was in its infancy, but a lot has changed bince then. God, I wish we could take a mulligan on that Rutgers/Maryland play.
BigD
Well-Known Member
Nope, Barta will keep giving checks to DISH even though he is getting much less for his money. That’s what Gary does.
Fryowa
Administrator
I actually think it's the opposite...
The streamers are getting the same deals as the cable providers, but the cable providers are the ones doing the gouging and causing the fuss. They simply have too much overhead to survive in today's world. I get that internet uses in many cases the same physical infrastructure the as TV cable, but it's nowhere near one for one. Cable companies have a HUGE amount of physical equipment and a large chunk of that is TV specific, they have to pay a certain portion of their payroll to cable-specific people, call centers, trucks, building/line maintenance and upkeep, and tons of other brick and mortarish expenses, and then a margin on top of it.
The Hulus and YouTubes of the world have a lot in their favor including huge economies of scale, zero billing/AP overhead (it's all online sign up & auto debit and they automatically disconnect you if you don't pay), there's no noncollectable write offs, the list goes on and on. They're also big enough that they can absorb network increases to a greater degree than the Comcasts and their ilk. Again, I know that a lot of internet service is provided by cable companies, but at the end of the day data transmission is much, much lest costly and way more efficient to maintain than cable TV. It's also much more future proof which is huge.
Cable TV is not at all different than landline phone service. It's going the way of the dinosaur and instead of adapting or calling it quits, the cable companies are playing on the emotions of uneducated ma and pa's who don't know there's another option like streaming. WHat they won't accept is that the Luddite population is going away pretty quick and soon they won't have anyone to whine to.
What's really funny is the cable TV companies selling "land line" phone service, just in case your kid drops your sitter's cell phone in the pool.
Fryowa
Administrator
Hulu and YT are going to wonder why Saturday morning their subscription rates in Iowa are up 785%.I don't get the "call DISH and complain now" narrative. Give DISH the middle finger and switch to HULU.
Or maybe go back 10 years and dig up a rude tweet from a DISH exec.
