Renegotiating the Dodgers’ TV deal: How Spectrum can reach more viewers and make more...
Ironically, or maybe un-ironically, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable, now owned by Charter Communications), is the Los Angeles Dodgers’ exclusive game content distributor via Sports Net LA. Spectrum finds itself in...
Economies of Scope in Entertainment, Media, and Sports
First,
a quick economics lesson. Economies of
scope refers to when businesses implement a strategy of diversification of services,
assets, or products offered through entry and growth...
Professional Sports Leagues Content Distribution Models: Local vs. Regional vs. National
Why
does the National Football League use a national television distribution model? Why does Major League Baseball mostly use a local
and regional television distribution model...
Will Anyone Catch Netflix?
Netflix-Paramount. Apple-A24. Amazon-NFL. AT&T-Time Warner. NBCUniversal-Comcast-Sky. Disney-21st Century FOX. Nexstar-Tribune. All of these deals were done for one purpose: to compete with the competition.
The deals...
The Privatization of Sports
At first glance, one might be thinking, but sports are already private endeavors. Furthermore, privatization normally means moving a business or industry from being...
What does NIL mean for agents, attorneys, and colleges?
In the state-led and NCAA-sanctioned move to have athletes in college and now potentially high school athletes (pursuant to state law and local conference...
Tech, Data, and You
Data and analytics pervades
nearly aspect of our lives, especially in sports and media and more often now
in entertainment.
The NHL
now has smart pucks that...
Hollywood Alliances in Platform Content Distribution
There was a time when four major broadcast channels dominated television. The channel offering expanded over time and eventually consumers could choose from thousands...
NFTs: The Digital Original of Things
Non-fungible tokens (NFT) hit the market with a craze. The National Basketball Association (NBA) Top Shot is credited with starting some of the craze...
An Apple a Day Keeps the Competitors Away
Have you ever noticed that the Apple logo looks like the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the...
