Bill Simmons: "The NBA media deal talks are over, TNT lost it, NBC is getting it."

I hope it stays on NBC and doesn't end up on Peacock behind yet another pay wall.....but I'm guessing that is what will happen.

 

I had assumed it will primarily be on peacock but a few games on NBC - sort of similar to ESPN/ABC.

 

You will see how many people don’t stream sports. Will shock some.

 

It shouldn't be one or the other. Sports should be available via streaming as well as over the air.

 

NFL said numbers actually improved for Sunday ticket moving to YouTube away from directv.

Tnt already is streaming on hbo Max. I'll still watch if it's on peacock too.

 

Yeah, I finally cut the cord last week. I get the TNT games on Max and the ESPN games on their APP.
In September I will add FUBO or HULU + to get the Big 10 football games and some local stations.

But right now I am just fine streaming Max, Apple, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Before I had those 4 plus paying Spectrum $180 per month for cable TV.

 

We've already seen with Amazon Prime NFL, it's worked very well and many people prefer it as its much easier to watch across different devices than the senior citizens that have cable.

 

This is true right now because they don't need to. But eventually, they will be forced to. And why not since it is cheaper......for now anyway.

All the best TV is found via streaming services. So like I said above in another post, I was paying for both. And with the Ducks moving to the Big 10 I was forced to educate myself on the various options. And when I found out that certain streaming services also offer the local and cable stations I was watching, it made the switch easy. Yes, I am old and was slow to realize this. I needed a reason to change.

 

NBC needs to bring back Peter Vecsey so he can talk about Derrick Coleman rumors during halftime.

I’m sure he still has plenty of ‘sauces’.

 

And you're probably going to need 3 or 4 different streamers to catch every game.

Yo ho, yo ho...

 

Drink up me harties

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