Every year, like clockwork, you’ll find me glued to a TV set at a sports bar, friends house, or restaurant. I’ll sit there 4 quarters, watching a certain NBA team show 3 western conference teams how it’s done, then an eastern conference team in the finals. It is a wonderful experience being a Spurs fan.
Since I only watch 25-35 hours of live TV a year, it is awfully hard for me justify the $80 or $90 a month for cable. There’s a few sitcoms I watch, but they are available on great services like Hulu. So where does that leave me? Listening to the game on the radio, errr, internet radio.
I would have no problem paying $5 per game to watch them in my browser - just like Hulu. I’d even be fine with watching the two and three minute commercial breaks because it’s not like they can cut them out if I’m watching it live.
So, they would be able to get $5 from me per game, and the ability to show me 40-50 commercials. You can’t tell me that this is not a money making opportunity. I’m sure the cable companies have some pressure on the NBA and TNT/ESPN/ABC to keep them exclusive to the old RG6, but how long can that last?
I feel like the NBA, as well as myself, is missing out on a golden opportunity to, in their case, make a bunch of money and, in my case, watch Tony Parker drive the lane for an easy 2.
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