Adam Silver: 'Decline of cable has disproportionately impacted the NBA'
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NBA commissioner Adam Silver explained why he believes the NBA has been hit hardest by young Americans fleeing cable.

“We recognize that, in some ways, the decline of cable has disproportionately impacted the NBA,” Silver told Kendall Baker of Yahoo Sports AM. “Our young audience isn’t subscribing to cable, and those fans aren’t finding our games.

But there are still roughly 65 million homes in America that are consuming sports in a very traditional way, and even more people on network TV. Is that declining? Yes. Is that going away anytime soon? I don’t believe so. So we want to be on all of those platforms.”

  • jwc8985BEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Cool, so get rid of the markets concept. Perhaps if someone joins a service like YouTube TV, they get to pick which team or two per pro-sport than want to have full season access to watch as part of their standard subscription.

    Even when I lived in Austin, I couldn’t watch most Mavs and Rangers games because it was considered a Spurs and Astros market, respectively.

  • ArroganceIsPotentBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    ive just been pirating everything that seems interesting to me, until there is a compelling enough way to legally watch things that makes it worth like $10 or so, im going to keep doing that (this also applies for movie and tv in general)

  • Doobie_HowitzerBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    MF the decline of the product has impacted the NBA, fuck blaming cable lmfao

  • AutographedSnorkelBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The biggest problem the NBA faces is that young people aren’t fans of teams, they’re fans of Curry, LeBron, Giannis, etc.

  • koiz_01BEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Paid services can’t compare to the high seas. NBA needs to eventually consider offering thier own free streaming services. The number of boomers subbed to cable is getting smaller every year. Free games and give us ads between breaks just like cable.

  • ace_aliveBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I‘m in Europe and would consider paying a reduced price for league pass, but there is no app for my xbox, no app for my TV and trying to watch anything from the NBA website on my aging laptop gives me some DRM error as apparently my Laptop doesn‘t have a DRM chip(whatever that is). All other streaming services are available on xbox and my TV and work well on my laptop, btw.

    Now even if league pass would work here, it costs the same as in the USA, but I can never watch live games, because I sleep at night. And they don‘t have commentary in my language…no way I pay the full price in that case even if it would work.

    I just sail the high seas. With all owner being billionaires and all players being multi millionaires I don‘t even have the slightest bad conscience about it.

    NBA is just incompetent and anti-consumer with their league pass, imo.

    Just let Apple do it, like the MLS does, instead of trying to do it yourself. Or find another partner, like being a channel in Amazon Prime or whatever.