ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
If they slipped him a few hundred million dollars it would probably go ahead before next summer!!
Streaming Cycling in UK - Discovery+ prices!
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Blazing Saddles
Über Member
Too late, Trump has got involved. He doesn’t want monopolies in the entertainment/streaming market.
Paramount have now come in with a counter offer, which is many billions bigger than the Netflix deal, as it involves them buying the whole of WBD.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Whatever happens, I predict ...
It will be worse and more expensive.
It will be worse and more expensive.
Paramount having already donated money will no doubt now be the front runner once the merger does not get approved.
The "right" monopoly is absolutely fine.
I have a strong feeling it will happen without European participation. Shifting sands.If they slipped him a few hundred million dollars it would probably go ahead before next summer!!
Blazing Saddles
Über Member
Netflix will award him their “new” peace prize and it’s in the bag.
Ive a feeling the sports rights market will shake everything up before any mergers are agreed this might be peak TNT'ness of them holding all the cards so to speak and we start to see a real split develop across many providers. none of which will help the viewer of course, but Netflix or Paramount buying WBD are probably the least of the problems viewers will have to deal with over the next 5 years.
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
I do not really like watching bike races on TV (but crits, CX and downhill is alright). I would rather just watch the highlights but more than that, would far rather read cycling autobiographies: more detail, feelings and emotions can be conveyed in the written word.
I loved GCN+ though when the price was a lot lower.
I loved GCN+ though when the price was a lot lower.
MasterDabber
Veteran
- Location
- Surrey and the Lot in France
Another event goes down the TNT pan..... the Commonwealth Games. The event doesn't bother me much from my personal view but.....
Blazing Saddles
Über Member
If the Commie Games weren’t a dead duck before this announcement, they certainly are now.
I am fuming over their rubbish rugby coverage, this weekend.
MadMalx
Well-Known Member
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- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
"take coverage of the Games to new and growing audiences" - chief exec of Glasgow 2026, Phil Batty
Totally agreed, watched it a bit as a kid, but it's farcical now, antiquated to my mind, and lacks a load of actual sports that are key imho - it should be left to die quietly.
No loss to my mind. Be surprised if TNT make much money from it.
misforturob
Well-Known Member
Very strange, just seems like a lose-lose for everyone involved.
BBC - lose because it further reduces their sports coverage
TNT - lose because it seems fanciful that the Commonwealth Games is going to increase their subscriptions at all
Commonwealth Games - lose because with no-one watching in one of their core markets it further spirals into obscurity
BBC - lose because it further reduces their sports coverage
TNT - lose because it seems fanciful that the Commonwealth Games is going to increase their subscriptions at all
Commonwealth Games - lose because with no-one watching in one of their core markets it further spirals into obscurity
wakemalcolm
Legendary Member
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- Ratho
I bet Glasgow City council are raging that having stepped in to rescue the games the square root of zero viewers will tune in to their opportunity to showcase the place.
Total short termism. Who will volunteer to host it next?
Total short termism. Who will volunteer to host it next?
