they and the teams may care about local viewers. The teams maybe ok will all of market games being on pay tv.
The super bowl can make it on ad spots alone as well.
also need plans without sports?
Do we want to streaming to be new cable but with more crap like.
Haveing ESPN forced into 2-4 differnt streaming plans but to get all the content you want need to pay for ESPN 2-3 times vs just 1 time with cable.
haveing to deal with 2-4 differnt bills vs just 1...
and commercial rights? netflix has nothing in place to do it on their own.
also will teams push for the rights to sell their own games (at least locally)
Will an lawsuit of the lack of an 1 team lower priced NFL Sunday ticket come? The MLB, NHL, NBA have cheaper one 1 team plans.
so ESPN can have it's own stand alone thing? but cable co are forced to have ESPN + Disney channel in all basic plans? Even if you don't want ESPN but want other cable channels?
If ESPN can go standalone then they become like HBO on cable.