• Fubo CEO, David Gandler, is unhappy about Comcast’s decision to exclusively stream an NFL Wild Card game on Peacock.
  • Fubo pays to air NBC, so the decision by Comcast creates competition between the two streaming platforms.
  • Peacock’s exclusive stream of the game reached 23 million viewers, making it the most-streamed event ever for the service.

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  • Pistcow@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    Seeing as most sports team stadiums are publicly funded, maybe we should broadcast the games on public access.

    • WallEx@feddit.deEnglish
      29·
      10 months ago

      You don’t understand, they are privatising the profits while taking the costs out of taxpayers pockets, it’s really smart, if you’re a turbocapitalist.

      • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        Can’t anyone think about jobs these stadiums create? Back in my day, getting underpaid to serve nachos to drunk sports fans who just want to grab your ass was a privilage.

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      Agreed, if my taxes paid for the stadium they play in by any percentage, then they can stream all games on public broadcast. We all know cunts like Kroenke are fully capable of building their own stadiums, they just know we’ll do it for them if they refuse and then they take in even more money

      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        To be fair, in the local markets for the two teams involved (Miami and Kansas City), they were on over the air broadcast TV and thus also cable and satellite providers that carry those stations. Although of course the local markets for TV purposes are literally only the cities in question and people in a different part of that same state might get boned still.

        I think they should be made to be broadcast or at least free streaming only by virtue of the NFL’s specific antitrust exemptions though.