Author Topic: The Nats are...For Sale?!?  (Read 26576 times)

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Offline nfotiu

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Re: The Nats are...For Sale?!?
« Reply #650: December 08, 2022, 04:44:13 PM »
I'm sure Amazon paying a fortune is the hope, but ratings for national baseball games are terrible. I don't see any way that the MLB gets a deal that comes remotely close to replacing RSN money- remember RSN ratings are also terrible, but cable companies felt they had to carry the networks and then passed the money onto subscribers. It's one of the reasons that cable packages go so expensive. I see no world where Amazon/Netflix/Apple gives baseball a similar deal.
Yeah, we converse back and forth on this stuff all the time.   I understand the RSN model well.   It's the reason that it isn't a sustainable revenue source.   They're not going to get 3 billion from an Amazon, but they may well get significantly more than the ceiling of what people will pay for the MLB app, and they will be able to promote the game more.