So I read in the following that NBCSN made this decision without even consulting the executives of its most valuable property, the Barclays Premier League, yet still wishes to bid on the new media rights package that begins in 2022.
HA! Good luck with that the PL are not picking you when snubbed like that lest you come up with major magic money. Let's note this is beyond unprofessional, in any business down to the one-person shop, as well when you don't offer some information or consultation with a top customer or partner. Your name stays on it whether your doors are open or shut, and snub somebody and they certainly will never forget it.
Apparently the executives at the PL have not been thrilled and are not interested in more content going onto Peacock or streaming as well.
Not all PL games merit enough interest such that they need be shown on a cable channel rather than streamed, but it's telling how NBCSN has botched massively the scheduling so as to put often the matches of lesser prominence on NBCSN though occasionally getting top matches onto NBC.
There is no way the BPL finds NBCSN fit for greater responsibility. Other bidders lurk and are circling.
I will cheer the day, and certainly add my comments on Peacock's stupid Facebook page, when NBC gets the boot. May the BPL get a great running start when they deliver the boot NBC have asked for with their folly too.
And you know what? NBCSN's lead weekend PL talent in the studio are excellent, so I want them to be lured away too because very few are complaining about them at all.
So with no PL and with the NHL up and likely leaving NBC too, what in the world will NBC have for sports other than their flagship NFL game on Sunday nights (with terrible announcing thanks to Collinsworth)? Maybe that's all they want plus some bargain basement content like rugby for Peacock and the like.
NBC Sports might as well be on Reddit with all the other heavy niche content if they are going to go with a heavy streaming strategy.
And I'm not going be professional about this at all when I cheer "down with you NBC Sports!"