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(08-15-2018 12:15 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  Thanks for the info...sounds like the separate Stadium app is overkill in my case. Pluto is a really cool free app...a must download for most fans. I even like watching the movies and listening to the music. The classic TV channel has some good stuff too.

Depends if you want to view clips of shows and segments on pro sports or conference network games that the app gives you and even Stadium roku channel.

I love Pluto also.
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If it weren't for ESPN+ I'd probably subscribe to Stadium but $5 on ESPN+ gets you WAY more than Stadium's $5 does.

I don't have any real preference who ends up with Fox RSNs and it might be a good thing if they get split up, but if Sinclair wins I hope they use it as an asset in conjunction with their stake in Stadium. The meat and potatoes for the RSN's is their local pro team contracts but using them to distribute some Stadium content to plug in the holes would be a positive for viewers.
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Fox is reportedly interested in buying back its RSNs from Disney.

Quote:21st Century Fox could attempt to buy back the 22 regional sports networks it is selling to Disney, according to industry site The Information. Multiple previous reports indicated that Fox had no interest in keeping the RSNs, which Disney agreed to divest in order to win justice department approval for its $71 billion acquisition of most 21st Century Fox assets.
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/08/...-rsns-mlb/
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i was setting up my tvs in the garage for football season and noticed that I had the Stadium channel after I did a channel scan on the antenna. Which conferences/sports will be shown on stadium?
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(08-23-2018 03:21 PM)Spinal070508 Wrote:  i was setting up my tvs in the garage for football season and noticed that I had the Stadium channel after I did a channel scan on the antenna. Which conferences/sports will be shown on stadium?

I think MWC and CUSA are the only FBS leagues. Patriot and Big Sky maybe out of FCS.
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(08-23-2018 03:21 PM)Spinal070508 Wrote:  i was setting up my tvs in the garage for football season and noticed that I had the Stadium channel after I did a channel scan on the antenna. Which conferences/sports will be shown on stadium?

CUSA football, Patroit League football, Some soccer and volleyball games from both conferences as well as the MW (VB & Soccer). They show some rerun of games from the MLB, ACC and CUSA.

Also have basketball in winter.
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(08-23-2018 03:49 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  
(08-23-2018 03:21 PM)Spinal070508 Wrote:  i was setting up my tvs in the garage for football season and noticed that I had the Stadium channel after I did a channel scan on the antenna. Which conferences/sports will be shown on stadium?

CUSA football, Patroit League football, Some soccer and volleyball games from both conferences as well as the MW (VB & Soccer). They show some rerun of games from the MLB, ACC and CUSA.

Also have basketball in winter.
Might have to check it out. I will watch just about any sport except regular season MLB.

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(08-23-2018 03:57 PM)Spinal070508 Wrote:  
(08-23-2018 03:49 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  
(08-23-2018 03:21 PM)Spinal070508 Wrote:  i was setting up my tvs in the garage for football season and noticed that I had the Stadium channel after I did a channel scan on the antenna. Which conferences/sports will be shown on stadium?

CUSA football, Patroit League football, Some soccer and volleyball games from both conferences as well as the MW (VB & Soccer). They show some rerun of games from the MLB, ACC and CUSA.

Also have basketball in winter.
Might have to check it out. I will watch just about any sport except regular season MLB.

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Also, forgot they are showing live HS football. Game going on now.
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(08-23-2018 02:51 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Fox is reportedly interested in buying back its RSNs from Disney.

Quote:21st Century Fox could attempt to buy back the 22 regional sports networks it is selling to Disney, according to industry site The Information. Multiple previous reports indicated that Fox had no interest in keeping the RSNs, which Disney agreed to divest in order to win justice department approval for its $71 billion acquisition of most 21st Century Fox assets.
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/08/...-rsns-mlb/

Maybe ESPN is selling them back below their purchase price to keep a new competitor out of the field.
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Comcast may have shot themselves in the foot by forcing Disney to pay more for the Fox properties. If I am Disney, Comcast would have to pay dearly to get the RSNs, if I sold to them at all. On the other hand, Comcast driving Disney's cost up also drove the sale price up.
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(08-23-2018 07:43 PM)Wolfman Wrote:  Comcast may have shot themselves in the foot by forcing Disney to pay more for the Fox properties. If I am Disney, Comcast would have to pay dearly to get the RSNs, if I sold to them at all. On the other hand, Comcast driving Disney's cost up also drove the sale price up.

Get Mueller on this.

Smells like Fox wanted to sell to Disney for Disney stock and cooked a deal to present it as being n expensive purchase to drive off Comcast then give lower the true sale price by selling the RSN's back to Fox.

Personally I'll be disappointed because there has never been a consistent vision of how to use the RSN's beyond showing local pro teams. Someone else might innovate and make them better.
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(08-23-2018 10:30 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Smells like Fox wanted to sell to Disney for Disney stock and cooked a deal to present it as being n expensive purchase to drive off Comcast then give lower the true sale price by selling the RSN's back to Fox.

If Fox gives Disney about $20 billion for the RSNs, which analysts say the RSNs could sell for, then obviously it cuts the $35 billion cash part of Disney's purchase by more than half. Also obviously, selling the RSNs for that price to anyone other than Fox would have the same effect.

Just speculating here: (1) Wolfman is likely right that Disney is ticked off at Comcast for driving up the price, and won't want to sell any RSNs to Comcast unless Comcast has to overpay for them, and (2) There might be an unwritten agreement between Fox and Disney, not to definitely sell the RSNs back to Fox, but for Fox to buy the RSNs back if Disney can't find others to pay top dollar for them.
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(08-23-2018 10:30 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(08-23-2018 07:43 PM)Wolfman Wrote:  Comcast may have shot themselves in the foot by forcing Disney to pay more for the Fox properties. If I am Disney, Comcast would have to pay dearly to get the RSNs, if I sold to them at all. On the other hand, Comcast driving Disney's cost up also drove the sale price up.

Get Mueller on this.

Smells like Fox wanted to sell to Disney for Disney stock and cooked a deal to present it as being n expensive purchase to drive off Comcast then give lower the true sale price by selling the RSN's back to Fox.

Personally I'll be disappointed because there has never been a consistent vision of how to use the RSN's beyond showing local pro teams. Someone else might innovate and make them better.

Ive said it before--I dont see how you create any real economy of scale by owning multiple RSN's who's major asset is pro-rights within a very small defined area. The big drawing card from one RSN cant be used to fill time on another and vice versa. They are really profitable little stand alone networks---but I dont know if there is any real advantage to owning a crap load of them.

Basically, FOX was doing about all you could do to create synergies and economies of scale by using them as a quasi-national college network. Most of the time, each RSN would get a game that made sense for the specific region that RSN was located within. Each RSN would get other games from unrelated regions as filler and time killers until another game with strong local interest kicked off. Big12 and Pac12 games would show up there. Until recently, they also had some CUSA stuff that meshed well with a number of their regions.

I do think Stadium now has enough regional content spread out over the country that it might be able profit from having a network of RSN's across the nation. Since Stadium has no linear presence---the RSN's would be a nice boost for them---especially since they are all located in large TV markets. Stadium also has the ability to produce national studio news shows, niche content shows, and pre-post game shows that could run on the RSN's as well as the Stadium Network. So, I do think Stadium could possibly see some synergies from the purchase. 04-cheers
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(08-23-2018 11:13 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(08-23-2018 10:30 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(08-23-2018 07:43 PM)Wolfman Wrote:  Comcast may have shot themselves in the foot by forcing Disney to pay more for the Fox properties. If I am Disney, Comcast would have to pay dearly to get the RSNs, if I sold to them at all. On the other hand, Comcast driving Disney's cost up also drove the sale price up.

Get Mueller on this.

Smells like Fox wanted to sell to Disney for Disney stock and cooked a deal to present it as being n expensive purchase to drive off Comcast then give lower the true sale price by selling the RSN's back to Fox.

Personally I'll be disappointed because there has never been a consistent vision of how to use the RSN's beyond showing local pro teams. Someone else might innovate and make them better.

Ive said it before--I dont see how you create any real economy of scale by owning multiple RSN's who's major asset is pro-rights within a very small defined area. The big drawing card from one RSN cant be used to fill time on another and vice versa. They are really profitable little stand alone networks---but I dont know if there is any real advantage to owning a crap load of them.

Basically, FOX was doing about all you could do create synergies and economies of scale by using them as a quasi-national college network. Most of the time, each RSN would get a game that made sense for specific region that RSN was located within. Each RSN would get other games from unrelated regions as filler and time killers until another game with strong local interest kicked off. Big12 and Pac12 games would show up there. Until recently, they also had some CUSA stuff that meshed well with a number of their regions.

I do think Stadium now has enough regional content spread out over the country that it might be able profit from having a network of RSN's across the nation. Since Stadium has no linear presence---the RSN's would be a nice boost for them---especially since they are all located in large TV markets. Stadium also has the ability to produce national studio news shows, niche content shows, and pre-post game shows that could run on the RSN's as well as the Stadium Network. So, I do think Stadium could possibly see some synergies from the purchase. 04-cheers

I think there is value in having a mutual source of filler.
Whether that filler is a MWC game shown on half your networks that have an open window in that slot or sourcing the same lame poker or fishing filler program.
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