NBC Sports Network shutting down.

Fortunately "National Hockey League, Nascar programming will move to network USA"

 

didn't they take over fox sports net?

Hmm, I wonder where I'll get the World Poker Tour that I've been recording for years but haven't actually watched in a long time... ("I'll get to it" some eon.) One of the networks that has it doesn't even have ep #s, but the new airings on what I thought is NBC sports and used to be FSN on my cable channel does..

 

Now they have an excuse to add a bogus "sports" fee for USA subscribers.

My current FiOS TV package has no "sports" channels, so no sports fees.

 

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It's not entirely clear but I have to assume they are keeping the RSNs aka watching your local Hockey vs the national feeds.
I wonder how many of the national sports anchors are going to be out of a job since it is not a dedicated channel.

 

Well this link seems to imply the RSNs will stay around as I expected.

 

My guess is they'll probably move Indycar Racing to Peacock Premium and force everyone to pay to watch the races not shown on NBC.

 

You don’t pay a sports fee for TNT (which broadcasts NBA games), so why would you for USA?

 

Yeah, there's just not enough quality/popular content to really sustain all these different cable channel brands in addition to a major media company's streaming service (Peacock for NBCU, HBO Max for Warner, Hulu and Disney+ for Disney, Paramount+ for ViacomCBS, discovery+ for Discovery). So I think we'll increasingly see those companies' development/production/licensing dollars shifted over to their streaming services, leaving less money in place for their linear cable channels, which means some of those channels will die.

For instance, does TruTV play any strategic role for Warner? How about Disney XD for Disney? Or Travel Channel for Discovery?

 

i wonder if they planned to cut it earlier, but the olympics delay due to covid forced them to push it forward a year?

 

Sad..

I think this means I'll lose my footy fix (Premier League)

 

Let me fix that for you...

It will be interesting to see what happens when NBA and NFL contracts come up.

 

Yeah this is bad for racing in general, MotoGP was also on NBCSN and who knows where they'll go now. My guess is the new mo money network.

 

To quote the WSJ article, "English Premier soccer will also have matches on USA."

 

And then there is this quote "The English Premier League, which was streamed several times on Peacock, hasn’t had its future determined for US television." from Deadline.com.

 

"not having the Olympics hurt NBC badly this year"

 

Maybe they can take ESPN with them.... That way I would have about 20 less channels to block..