No. There is more about this topic in the NFL offseason thread. The NFL took advantage of a legal loophole to schedule that single game in Brazil.
Well precedence has been set and my bet if the NFL sees larger monetary returns on such actions without any significant legal actions, guess what, well I don’t need to say. I mean why can every other major league play on whatever night or day they want to, but not the NFL? The NFL will win this one in any court, easy peasy.
The NFL is about money as LeStaf mentions and my guess they will do whatever to increase their profits, high school or college issues whatever. Of course the CFL Friday night thingy doesn’t even equate in this equation. That is a TOTAL non-issue.
Please see the thread and read the article. There is no court. It’s been the law since 1961. And the NFL is not going this direction as you seem to believe is a possibility.
Based on this new reality of live streaming for free to devices, usually of simulcasts if also on antenna TV, it looks to me like the ratings industry needs to update their methods of measurement again.
As the most recent example, I watched more of the 2024 Masters via their website for free via a Windows PC than via CBS or Paramount+ as did more viewers than ever, including because in the first two rounds for many there is this thing called work.
Ditto also recently March Madness for the games simulcast for limited time periods on the CBS website.
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But the Grey Cup was on TV in the US, I watched it at our home in Florida along with a few of my neighbors.
We have cut the cord and no longer get Directv or any other sat/cable - it was free on CFL+
In past years to watch the Grey Cup in the US you needed a cable or satellite provider that carried NBCSN or ESPN2 before that.
Even then you needed the added sports package to get NBCSN or ESPN2.
Far more Americans got access to the Grey Cup than ever before when it was shown on CFL+ I think everyone has the internet and CFL+ is free.
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As you know it was streamed in the USA and there were many complaints about it. No doubt that the bulk of them came from backward states like Florida.
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Where are the complaints? do you have a link?
nice try with the “backward states” dig, I get it I proved you wrong so let’s fire up the insults.
Getting back to the original comment, far more Americans got access to the Grey Cup than ever before through the free access to CFL+
As I stated above - ESPN2 and NBCSN were extras that you had to purchase on top of your regular cable/satellite. It was a limited audience.
With the internet everyone has it and it’s everywhere.
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I don’t know. I think that most reasonable people would say that banning books and controlling women’s (not men’s so misogynist fits as well) bodies can be called “backwards”. I think that this type of Neanderthal thinking has also correctly been referred to as unenlightened, Draconian and medieval. Whatever shortcomings Canada may have, living in what amounts to a police state isn’t one of them. I think that many freedom loving Canadians find this to be appalling and therefore point it out. But then you have lived in a free country such as Canada and therefore should be able to see the differences between freedom and whatever exists in the US fairly easily. We also don’t even think twice about potentially being shot when we get the mail or stop at a traffic light.
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Of course one doesn’t exactly want to be a Umar Zameer in such a “free state” such as Canada. Yes, it’s a lot “freer” if you’re white.
Even if you’re not obviously.
I won’t prolong this discussion on this thread, but in other threads there have been numerous links to various freedom indexes. Canada is generally ranked just inside the top 10, usually 7-9. The US is usually ranked well over 30, generally 37-39.
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We all dealt with the complaints all season long. I don’t understand why you refuse to acknowledge that…
Here’s an example of you dealing with one of them.
Actually I think I was actually thinking of racism more than freedom per se. I don’t know how Canada ranks with respect to racism, if such an index or metric is available. But I do know that Canada has had slavery in the past and while I would argue that surely the U.S. is a more “racist” country overall compared with Canada, we still do harbour some racist attitudes in this country that shouldn’t be overlooked.
The UFL did well on antenna TV again despite all the competition that comes with spring beyond the TV.
Games on FS1 are not going to draw many fans, which is no surprise because that channel has been dog crap almost since inception with the exceptions of some MLB and some MMA until about 2017, when most people had cable subscriptions.
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Is Barkley upset because he could be out of the NBA switches from TNT to Amazon Prime?
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Yes, there’s a post about that in the NBA thread too.
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Is it happening for sure or just posturing from both sides?
It would be sad for TNT losing the NBA as they have been an excellent tv partner.
Then again so was CBS and NBC.
If NBC regains the NBA I hope they bring back the Roundball rock theme, unless John Tesh still have rights to it and leasing it out to FOX for their college basketball coverage.
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Nothing is final yet, but it’s not looking good for TNT. Other than in the NBA thread, there’s more information via this link on the matter too.
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On Thursday [23 May 2024], NBCU revealed that the last season of the Premier League broke a number of viewership records on its various platforms. The company said that for the 2023-24 season, NBC Sports averaged 546,000 viewers per TV match window, meaning that it was the most-watched Premier League season ever in the U.S.
An average of well over a half million for an entire season on regular TV for what is still a secondary sport in the US above age 20 or so is impressive.
This result is despite NBC’s lagging quality of coverage though Telemundo, the Spanish-speaking antenna TV property of Comcast, does hold up its end.
Underscoring how much interest there was in the 2023-24 season, six of the seven most watched Premier League matches in U.S. history came in the season just ended. Moreover, the 2023-24 season saw the first match ever (English language only) to top two million viewers, with the showdown of Manchester City-Arsenal hitting 2.12 million viewers March 31, according to NBC Sports.
NBC Sports has held exclusive U.S. rights to the Premier League since 2013, replacing Fox Sports, which had held the rights from 1998 to 2013. NBC Sports’ current six-year contract with the English soccer league began in 2022 and is reportedly valued at $2.7 billion ($450 million a season) and runs through to the end of the 2027-28 season.
2028 can’t come soon enough for me for perhaps Paramount / CBS to outbid Comcast / NBC Universal for the rights.
CBS has a far better production for soccer coverage across all platforms as well as a 24/7 channel / streaming station the CBS Sports Golazo Network, but then again by 2028 it is heavily unlikely to still be Paramount / CBS as constituted now given the current bidding war in progress for Paramount Global.
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Still waiting for them to announce the CFL+ schedule. I know in the US we’ll have some games but I hope it’s roughly the same number as last year…or more (fingers crossed)