• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    The reason sports and ESPN are such valuable commoditis is because the value of a sports game expires immediately when the game is over. That means they can charge what they want because they control the feed.

    Imagine a world where people were just as happy to watch an old sportsball game as they are to watch an old episode of Mad Men. ESPN would be nothing.

  • MurrayL@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Doesn’t ESPN have exclusive broadcast rights for the next Super Bowl for the first time ever? How convenient that they’d raise their prices…