Theory" than MLB does to get them to watch
games.Bopp: It's
NBA Live 18 Coins cheaper for TBS to pimp TBBT on their own network (or other
Turner networks).Bopp: Baseball keeps making more and more money, so I'm
guessing they know what they're doing regardless of the
ratings.Goldman.
Yeah, but I think they've successfully decoupled TV
revenue from popularity, Justin. If a la carte pricing ever came to cable, you'd
see the value of those regional sports networks plummet so hard you'd get
whiplash.Neyer: I think it's just that baseball is a local sport.
A very, very, very profitable local sport.Bopp:
...and that explains why it's hard to get baseball to take in places like Miami,
never mind Loria.Steve Mitchell-US PRESSWIRE Goldman: The point I was trying to
make is that you can get $1B for a.
RSN without promising anyone is going to watch it
because you put it on the basic cable tier, charge viewers $3 or so whether
they're going to watch it or not, and they don't really see that broken out in
their cable bill so they don't even realize they're paying for it.
Thus does every Mets fan in the NY metro area pay
for YES Buy NBA Live Mobile Coins without ever watching it and every Yankees fan for SNY, likewise.Bopp: I
think Rob's point makes sense. It's a big local/tribal show now. I don't know if
I agree that profitability should be decoupled from popularity,
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