Cutting The Cord
I love sports, especially watching them.
For you sports fanatics and ones that love watching sports the times are changing, we are becoming cordless and cheaper programing to watch your sports.
With cable becoming less demanding for sports fans to watch their games, sports leagues are now turning to streaming to support games without having to pay for the high cost of cable just to have other programs you aren't even interested in.
For example, the NFL has an option to get NFL game-pass which live streams every game from any device for $200 for the entire season. That is about 5 months of football for $200 any game and anywhere. With cable, you don't even get every game. You get games that are local, unless you pay for both cable and NFL game-pass, who would pay for both if you barley even use your cable provider?
This is very smart for the NFL as they can get money for their steaming services and have people use theirs and go totally away from cable. The bad news is they can lose a lot of money from doing this because these cable providers would pay much more what people would pay to host their games.
Cord cutting games can also hurt the players, as these leagues make a majority of their money from TV providers and this is how these players are getting ridiculously huge contracts that seem overpriced. The players, and the league would be in a big hole if they players weren't getting contracts they were expecting so then they will go on strike and then everyone loses.
It's basically a domino effect, if the league is going to do cord cutting and make it stream available, the TV providers are losing money, the league is losing millions from these TV providers, and the players, teams, and coaches don't make their money.
It could be a great thing for the league if they could do ridiculous numbers and take it away from TV, but it is highly doubtful they could make the same number they were making from these providers biding millions to host games.
This could effect society in general, the viewers. They would have to chose between having TV or streaming, they could lose out on either other shows they like or the sport they love. That is a hard decision, especially for people who can't afford both.
Now people who cannot afford both have to make that decision, which puts people in position to possibly not watch sports because you get more with cable on different events. This means you see the numbers get cut from the leagues and can hurt their profit. Which goes back to my first argument which means they won't get the same money as they would from these TV providers.
I don't think cord cutting will ever become a true thing, I think cable provides so much money to these other third parties such as sports that they will never be able to switch to even try it out because it is sort of like a comfort for them. It also makes it easier for people to have both on one service, and it will draw more from people of any house.
I also think if it does happen, I think my generation would be just fine, we have grown up learning more and more of streaming and we are watching cable less, so maybe in the next fifteen or twenty years we could possibly see it, but I doubt it with the amount of money these cable providers will be able to provide.
I really hope that this never happens, I love streaming, but I love having the freedom of cable to have anything that I want in one service and not having to have to switch back and fourth, I am interested on how cable will counteract this if it becomes a real thing. The future of steaming and TV will be a fight for years to come.
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