Dtv should try this!

[ddotdukes]

A couple of buddies and I were talking about the sport packages Directv offers. And I thought it would be a great idea if they have a deal where you can purchase your team. Like, say I want to view all the Lakers games, I would buy their team package so I could get all their games. Does anybody think Dtv will ever offer something like this?

[classicsat]

Doesn't buying your RSN offer something like that?

Of course, you'd have to deal with blackouts, if the situation arises.

Of course the Leagues and teams would have to agree to it also.

[dishrich]

Nope, because the providers that offer these package (NFL-ST, etc.) would have to give their OK. Also, NFL-ST already tried this a couple years ago & it was a big flop (or so they said) - it costs more money to "repackage" these games on an individual team basis, than what they made on it.
The providers really don't have an incentive to do this, 'cause they are already making $$$ on this & "a la carting" teams isn't really going to make them more for all the trouble it would be.

[PittCaleb]

I'm on record as saying basically the same thing. They should offer "Displaced Fan Packages" - for example, I am from Pittsburgh. I want to watch my Pirates, Penguins and Steelers and honestly don't care about any other of those pro games. I'd love my Pitt Panthers (CAS '93) in the major sports as well.

So to tell me I can get "up to 200 games every week" means nothing to me. And I'm not about to shell out what, $200 per sport to watch my one teams games. With the technology available to them, they could feed me all Pittsburgh games and charge something like $200 per year for that one city, all sports. That I'd bit in a second. I've considered "moving" now that I get the Detroit locals with my OTA antenna for HD purposes.

Cheers,
Caleb

[Dodge boy]

I'm on record as saying basically the same thing. They should offer "Displaced Fan Packages" - for example, I am from Pittsburgh. I want to watch my Pirates, Penguins and Steelers and honestly don't care about any other of those pro games. I'd love my Pitt Panthers (CAS '93) in the major sports as well.

So to tell me I can get "up to 200 games every week" means nothing to me. And I'm not about to shell out what, $200 per sport to watch my one teams games. With the technology available to them, they could feed me all Pittsburgh games and charge something like $200 per year for that one city, all sports. That I'd bit in a second. I've considered "moving" now that I get the Detroit locals with my OTA antenna for HD purposes.

Cheers,
Caleb

Or you could just become a Lions, Tigers, and Redwings fan :D

[willardcpa]

A couple of buddies and I were talking about the sport packages Directv offers. And I thought it would be a great idea if they have a deal where you can purchase your team. Like, say I want to view all the Lakers games, I would buy their team.....
Wouldn't that cost you - like several hundred million $s? :eek:
The ideas that come up when a "couple of buddies and I" and a case of Bud get together. :rolleyes:

[trainman]

One problem is that they can't guarantee that you'll see all the games of "your team," both due to blackout restrictions and the fact that they don't carry all the games in the first place (for example, someone who signed up for a "Phillies" package definitely wouldn't get any games they played against the Padres, since both teams' local cable coverage is on channels that aren't carried by DirecTV).