Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads

Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sulgoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Boiling frog effect mostly.

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• jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sports.

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  • thelastknowngod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think the sports management people are hurting for cash in any way but there has to be some tipping point eventually when the value of the exclusive broadcast contracts is overshadowed by the losses from people just straight up not watching anymore.

    I live in Turkey but if I try to watch a legal MLB stream I am told I’m in a blackout region. What local advertiser or broadcaster is being harmed by me watching baseball from fucking Turkey!? They would rather change the literal rules of the game to drive engagement rather than just allow more people to watch in a convenient way…

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  • Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Literally the only reason we have TV of any type. We dumped YTTV for Hulu, but once they say we can’t share the package with my father in law well dump that too and I’ll go back to streams.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cancelled Amazon for exactly this.

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