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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
The production of the game can be separate from the distribution. The demand for consuming sports in the comfort of your home, or wherever you are, is not going down IMO. The manner in which it will be distributed is changing as others have articulated very well.
As long as there are distribution channels that consumers are willing to pay for, there will be people who will produce the games for a price.
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Oh for sure. But Sinclair is on the hook for $1.77 billion USD in rights payments next year, plus the cost of producing the games. If, after a trip through bankruptcy, some of those get reduced, the economics of sports will change dramatically. I think its 100% likely the value of the broadcasts will still cover the cost of making them. But the value of the broadcasts might not cover the same huge-and-growing payment streams the leagues/players have gotten used to.