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[Kleen] Adam Silver: 'Decline of cable has disproportionately impacted the NBA' (awfulannouncing.com)

submitted 1 year ago by OnlyMamaKnows@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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“We recognize that, in some ways, the decline of cable has disproportionately impacted the NBA,” Silver told Kendall Baker of Yahoo Sports AM. “Our young audience isn’t subscribing to cable, and those fans aren’t finding our games.

But there are still roughly 65 million homes in America that are consuming sports in a very traditional way, and even more people on network TV. Is that declining? Yes. Is that going away anytime soon? I don’t believe so. So we want to be on all of those platforms.”

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[–] OldKingRob@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Your refusal to consider options other than cable have impacted the NBA.

Watching Knicks games legally was basically impossible without a cable subscription. I think only Fubo and DIRECTV Now have MSG. Never tried the latter because I couldn’t sign up without them sending me a streaming box, and Fubo doesn’t have espn or tnt, I forget which one. (Unless they’ve added it within the last year) So then you have to sign up for Sling which is an extra $35, so with Fubo, you’re paying nearly $120 a month.

But now you can just pay $30 a month to watch Knicks games on an app.

I chose free options. Less of a headache. Figure out how to let people watch basketball