AP News: For television, NFL deal is likely a matter of survival

[Steve Timko]

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-new-york-television-media-football-8b0cc251b823701ce1a8991c5ff904e9 

[Tom Wolper]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:08 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-new-york-television-media-football-8b0cc251b823701ce1a8991c5ff904e9

This reminds me of the ecological problem of monocropping. When a field or rorchard goes from having a variety of plants to a single planted one it becomes especially vulnerable to any pest, disease, or soil fungus because there is no distance between susceptible plants. If the NFL is the economic fuel that keeps the networks going, any disruption will collapse the whole system.

[Bob Jersey]

And yet networks have claimed at least since the 80s (?) their sports deals are always in the red.   B

Tom Wolper, to Steve Timko, in part, Mar 29th:

[Tom Wolper]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:06 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

And yet networks have claimed at least since the 80s (?) their sports deals are always in the red.

I'll trust the Golden Globes before I trust Hollywood accounting.

[Doug Eastick]

This reminds me of a few years ago when the CBC lost NHL to Rogers.

While I have not read this book, I did listen to an interview with the author.   It's probably the closest I'll ever get to reading a book about hockey.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Hockey_Fight_in_Canada.html?id=zzhsDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

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