Apple TV buys all MLS broadcast rights for 10 years

Anybody else with Xfinity and blow past their 1.2T data cap this month? The downside of high quality video I guess.

But mostly F Xfinity but I'm stuck with them unfortunately.

 

It's March 31st.

 

Yep, fresh start tomorrow for game day! here we go again

 

Never

 

I lost power and cell service (Google Fi c/o TMobile) in the big wind storm two weeks back.

 

I have 5 HD camera broadcasting 24x7, so I have to pay for unlimited and the 1 GB package to get the upload speeds I need (I use ~2TB a month)

 

Ahh, comforting. Though, I thought T-Mobile was just a leaser of cellular access and not actually responsible for providing any real hardware to support the system. Will now have to Google this.

 

T-Mobile is one of the big three (with Verizon and AT&T). In fact Google Fi (which is an MVNO over T-Mobile) just activated 5G and while my connection is pretty crappy (I'm not in a great location) at 1 to 2 bars, by download speed went from ~10MB/s to 300Mb/s

 

Predictable.

Sources: Apple TV are “very worried” about the amount of MLS Season Pass subscriptions sold to start the season. According to my source, they have met just 40% of their initial projection..

— MLS Gone Wild ⭐️ (@MLSGoneWild) April 3, 2023

 

Hahahahahaha. LOLOLOLOLOL.

 

Biggest complaint in the comment section is the price point. You can watch the Premier League cheaper on Peacock. Other don't like most all the games happening on one day.

 

Importantly, all at the same time on the same day. So basically you can watch one game live per week.

I'm annoyed by this for a different reason -- I'd like to take my little one to a few games, but his bedtime is at 7:30. There is only one home game all season that doesn't start at 7:30.

 

Yeah, the lack of afternoon games is problematic for introducing little kids to the games. Very short-sighted by the league.

 

As previously mentioned, I'm watching less MLS soccer as a result.

There needs to be a featured game of the week every Saturday afternoon and two back-to-back on Sunday afternoon.

 

If "MLS Gone Wild" says so, you can take it to the bank.

 

That's not true about the start times. There are games starting 4:30, 5:30. 6:30 and 7:30. But, I agree that they should spread them out more, and always have a couple of Sunday games.

 

It would be so easy for Apple to announce that paid subscriptions have met or exceeded estimates. Their failure to do so lends credence to reports that they have not. That's in addition to the inherent plausibility and predictability of reports that expectations are unmet.

The most fervent fans -- season ticketholders -- are getting subscriptions for free. The universe of people in this country who are not season ticketholders but who like soccer --and are willing to pay $100 per year (or $15 per month) for a less than world-class product on top of whatever they're paying for other sports services -- is small, to paraphrase former San Jose Sports Authority midwit Dean Munro.

And then there are the people who tried to sign up but couldn't due to the myriad technical difficulties.

 

Yes it would be. It's also very easy for an anonymous account to put "Sources" on a tweet.

 

Mainstream media does it, too, and about more serious subjects than MLS Season Pass. Skepticism is always warranted.

Still, I think Apple misjudged the market.

 

And I think they are/were hoping x number of those turn into AppleTv+ subs as well.

 

The AppleTV MLS deal is a long play. It's a little different but emerging paradigm relative to cable and DVR's, etc., all content in one place, a growing league, presumably the glitches and bugs will get ironed out, improvements made, and we'll see what happens. 10 years is a long time. It might be a wee bit early to be spiking the ball over the failure or the success of the deal.

 

So, it was expected by Apple that subscriptions would be only 40 percent of its own expectations?

 

I don't know what the real numbers are, and what they "expected". But my point about "long term play" stands. 10 years is a long time.

 

Zhou Enlai on the French Revolution: “Too early to say.”

 

Not true.