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Originally Posted by dino7c
Its ridiculous but every sports league is doing it
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Yup NFL led the way here and soon enough all leagues will follow or are following.
NFL is already kind of doing it by splitting out their Thursday, Sunday Night, Monday Night, and splitting the sunday timeslots by TV partner.
MLB has the Apple TV friday deal and some different national partners already.
NBA was separating out their major national deals too.
My guess is on the next rights deal you see the NHL sell Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night national packages separately.
And I think we start to see Apple, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and the other streaming companies start to take much bigger pieces of these sports content deals in the next rights cycle.