ESPN / Disney / NFL deal - Big companies make deal at your expense

[CrazyTrader55]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nfl-to-take-10-stake-in-disneys-espn-004446753.html

You can call me a cynic, but how does this deal benefit John Q. Middleclass American?
ESPN (Owned by go-woke-go-broke Disney) and the NFL will both get richer. Guess who will pay more for NFL products.

The country is slowly (well, maybe not so slowly any longer) getting divided up into the haves, the have mores, the poor (read: Democrat voters), and the ever shrinking middle class.

It's all going according to their plan.

Now get back to work.

 

[1srelluc]

Meh, ESPN is in most "welfare cable" packages already.

What gets me is having games on Amazon Prime....Not so much it because it's there but the viewing experience sucks.

 

[luiza]

It's all going according to their plan.

Now get back to work.

It is barely a plan .
It is just the obvious coming true .

Even more so in the context of AI and Robots ,there are too many people .
A few billion will have to be disappeared otherwise they will wander around being a nuisance , getting angry and then trying to obtain things through violence .

Forget so called Climate Change and/ or ruining the planet .
we need to concentrate on finding ways to limit population that are broadly acceptable .

Perhaps testing at various age points with all non qualifiers earning a long sleep .
Makes1984 look tame .

 

[pknopp]

If you look hard enough you can find most games somewhere online for free.

 

[80zephyr]

I read some time ago that something like 70% of your cable bill goes to sports teams. Even if you are not a sports fan,
you are paying for them to exist. Thats bullshit.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

I read some time ago that something like 70% of your cable bill goes to sports teams. Even if you are not a sports fan,
you are paying for them to exist. Thats bullshit.

First world problems. My cable bill/internet is roughly $200 a month. It's expensive but so be it. Internet is a must and I enjoy sports but barely watch any of the other hundreds of channels that I'm forced to take.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

First world problems. My cable bill/internet is roughly $200 a month. It's expensive but so be it. Internet is a must and I enjoy sports but barely watch any of the other hundreds of channels that I'm forced to take.

We had DirectTV, they priced themselves so high I finally cancelled it. I'm not paying 200 a month to watch crap you can basically watch free on other apps

 

[22lcidw]

First world problems. My cable bill/internet is roughly $200 a month. It's expensive but so be it. Internet is a must and I enjoy sports but barely watch any of the other hundreds of channels that I'm forced to take.

What is more maddening is the continued expansion of endless commercials. It's like hell on earth. When cable first started it was promoted as reducing that. A lot of streaming are commercials surround by programs. They even put commercials on in the middle of action scenes.

 

[drudge X]

We had DirectTV, they priced themselves so high I finally cancelled it. I'm not paying 200 a month to watch crap you can basically watch free on other apps

Believe me, your life will be free the moment you cancel cable. I haven't had cable for years and I no longer watch broadcast television. I don't miss both one bit.