Big 10 games on NBC Peacock! What's next for streaming services with live sports?
Channel: Winning Cures Everything
Date: 12/08/2022

How important was the Big Ten deal for NBC & their streaming service Peacock?  Bob Thompson believes it's really big.  What's the future of live sports for streaming services like Amazon, Apple, etc?

Bob Thompson, former Fox Sports President, (@RLTSports on Twitter) joined the show to talk about media rights for the Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, Pac 12, College Football Playoff Expansion, value of specific CFB time slots, Notre Dame, realignment and expansion, and more!

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Auto Transcription:
let's move this over to streaming for just a little bit now. Apparently NBC's peacock streaming network.
 It's gonna have some exclusive games as part of the Big 10 package?
 How big of a deal is this for a streaming network?
 Like peacock, whose model really requires subscriptions as opposed to just linear viewers.
 I think it's an important thing for peacock.
 It doesn't surprise me, peacock or NBC hasn't done a rights deal for the last couple of years that didn't include some element for peacock and if it hadn't included element for peacock, I don't think NBC would have been in on the deal that had just stuck with Notre dame.
 I think, you know, there'll be some, some one off games, maybe, maybe some, some basketball, who knows?
 I think the bigger issue or bigger surprise would be eventually if it comes out and there's another streamer as a part of a deal.
 Say some package carved out between, you know, picks four and five or something like that every week for football or amazon prime or Apple plus Apple tv plus, that would be even more of a surprise to me than the peacock peacock element.
 You just assume that if NBC's evolved, there's a peacock element. Yeah. You mentioning Apple and amazon, etcetera.
 Like we just got the news from Disney yesterday that they lost $1.1 billion in streaming?
 What, what was the next step for streaming.
 How invested do you think amazon Apple etcetera are going to be in broadcasting live sports rights in the future.
 I think that they're going to continue down that path, if only as a hedge, I certainly hedge against potential loss on their broadcast or cable networks.
 Amazon prime is a totally different business model because it's all dependent on prime memberships.
 So it's not, you know, they don't really care as much about viewership as they care about people, you know, paying $120 a year for their prime subscription.
 There there have been multiple people that have brought up the idea that amazon could get into the sports gambling, right space where you've got a game on the television on amazon prime and the ability to not only by the team's gear right there on the screen, but also to be able to bet on the game as you're watching it.
 I mean, things like that are, I mean, obviously much further into the future, but maybe not as far as we're thinking right, it's, it's possible.
 I think it'll be a good idea, an indication of what they plan to do with the thursday night NFL games this year.
 I think that'll be real, you know, real eye opener of all the various things that they could do.
 You know, one of these conferences, if they got in, could they do NFL red zone type channel for the Big 12 conference, the pac 12 conference,  alternate feeds, you know, manning, manning cast feeds like ESPN did for monday night football.
 There's a variety of things that you can do on a streaming service that you can't necessarily do on linear broadcast or cable network.
 Yeah, as far as the, what's the ultimate, I don't know, Endgame for streaming, losing a $1.1 billion a quarter is certainly not a business plan that is sustainable forever.
 I told somebody, I said that's, you know, one quarter, that's an entire year of Big 10 writes a lot of money.
 I think that you're gonna have to have some consolidation at some point as with any business where there is significant losses, , some sort of streaming bundle, maybe.
 I think you already see that now with, with the Disney, Disney plus hulu plus ESPN plus, I read somewhere that walmart plus, which is there answer, I guess to prime a subscription service might offer all of those as part all of those streamers as part of your walmart subscription.
 So there's gonna have to be some new models...