MLB to take over Mariner's Broadcasts 2026

[Pharmabro]

I don't know the particular business details but I know thy had the M's, Blazers, Kraken, Jazz, Sounders, Timbers, Vegs Golden Knights, Zaga BB,

How did they fk off those properties? How did they fail?

[Donn Beach]

I don't know the particular business details but I know thy had the M's, Blazers, Kraken, Jazz, Sounders, Timbers, Vegs Golden Knights, Zaga BB,

How did they fk off those properties? How did they fail?

this is how I see it, when cable came along they were desperate for content. Sports was the perfect solution, particularly baseball. Hours of original content on an almost daily basis. Remember Ted Turner buying the Braves so he could broadcast their games on his super station. This drove up the value of broadcast rights. But what they were doing was including them in packages for people that were not really that interested in baseball. The internet changed all that, cord cutting. Now you have broadcasts that are focused on consumers that are actually interested in baseball. Its reduced their value

Honestly, it always seemed shaky to me, being it was based on viewers paying for baseball games that were not really that interested in baseball games

[GL_Storm]

I don't know the particular business details but I know thy had the M's, Blazers, Kraken, Jazz, Sounders, Timbers, Vegs Golden Knights, Zaga BB,

How did they fk off those properties? How did they fail?

Do you understand what cord cutting is?

[Donn Beach]

seems to me baseball is fortunate things aren't worse terms of their obligations and reduced revenue.

[Pharmabro]

I don't know the particular business details but I know thy had the M's, Blazers, Kraken, Jazz, Sounders, Timbers, Vegs Golden Knights, Zaga BB,

How did they fk off those properties? How did they fail?

Do you understand what cord cutting is?

Do you know what sports fans are? Is ESPN going ass up? They were theee NW sports station. I have been paying 20 or 25 bucks for just Mariner games. The ala cart thing is not any more cost efficient. There are still plenty of cable customers. Their mixed model of Root/MLB & cable was just fine. I mean didn't they lead baseball in profit the last few years?

[GL_Storm]

I don't know the particular business details but I know thy had the M's, Blazers, Kraken, Jazz, Sounders, Timbers, Vegs Golden Knights, Zaga BB,

How did they fk off those properties? How did they fail?

Do you understand what cord cutting is?

Do you know what sports fans are? Is ESPN going ass up? They were theee NW sports station. I have been paying 20 or 25 bucks for just Mariner games. The ala cart thing is not any more cost efficient. There are still plenty of cable customers. Their mixed model of Root/MLB & cable was just fine. I mean didn't they lead baseball in profit the last few years?

Sure, but with cord cutting what happens is that the RSN steadily loses the ability to charge the majority of households in their region via the carriage fee paid by the cable provider to the RSN. The size of that revenue stream shrinks every year. This is why Comcast moved them up to the higher tier a couple years back.

Yes, somebody reported they were the most profitable franchise at one point, or maybe for one year. But what does that mean exactly? Profitable on what basis? Nobody really knows what these franchises pull in or how they're manipulating their books internally.

[Donn Beach]

I don't know the particular business details but I know thy had the M's, Blazers, Kraken, Jazz, Sounders, Timbers, Vegs Golden Knights, Zaga BB,

How did they fk off those properties? How did they fail?

Do you understand what cord cutting is?

Do you know what sports fans are? Is ESPN going ass up? They were theee NW sports station. I have been paying 20 or 25 bucks for just Mariner games. The ala cart thing is not any more cost efficient. There are still plenty of cable customers. Their mixed model of Root/MLB & cable was just fine. I mean didn't they lead baseball in profit the last few years?

Yeah, you are a baseball fan happy to pay for mariner games. Like I said, the model had been based on selling baseball to non baseball fans

[Donn Beach]

The long-lucrative regional sports network is collapsing under the shift of television viewing away from mass cable packages, through which non-sports viewers subsidized some portion of the high cost of carrying live sports that teams charged distributors. Cord-cutting and more a la carte options have been looming issues for baseball teams for a while now, as teams benefited generously from the previous model. The exclusive rights to air local baseball games were such a priority for distributors that they were prepared to pay handsomely — with local media revenue accounting for an average of 23% of teams’ total revenue, by far the largest portion for any major sports league.

that's why the revenue is reduced, cord cutting in itself didn't reduce revenues. If the product was worth what they were getting for it from cable companies then revenues would have stayed the same.

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[Mesully11]

I am just hoping that TMobil continues the free MLB app for customers.

[Captain 97]

I am just hoping that TMobil continues the free MLB app for customers.

Guessing that they will still be blacked out locally on the Full MLB APP. you will have to buy a special extra one to get the local games.