Details released on new Padres streaming rights

[Brock Beauchamp]

And MLB is not holding back. I'm really impressed that they're doing this on day one.

I know there's another thread related to this but these details are worthy of their own thread:

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-to-produce-broadcast-padres-games

Locals can now buy Padres games on MLB.tv for $20/mo or $75 for the remainder of the season. That's... fine. A bit high in price but for true cord-cutters, still a very good deal.

The kicker here is that games will immediately be available on DirecTV, AT&T, FUBO, Spectrum (traditional cable), Cox (same) throughout Padres territory.

I'm impressed.

Oh, and all games are free for the next week or so.

[igor67]

I agree that is pretty great, and I really hope this is the first domino that makes it easier to stream in market through MLB.tv

[wiguy94]

In market Padres fans that have MLB.tv cannot watch the Padres games. You need to sign up for a specific individual package to watch their games.

[Outlander]

1 hour ago, wiguy94 said:

In market Padres fans that have MLB.tv cannot watch the Padres games. You need to sign up for a specific individual package to watch their games.

Same old crap, even when another company goes bankrupt. Thumbs down to MLB.

[owbc]

Getting rid of blackouts is a big step forward. The second is to make the broadcasts entirely free, which will come eventually when the paywall results in reduced viewership for a relatively small amount of revenue. They will be lucky to pull in $5-10 million in revenue if they can get 10,000 people to sign up for MLB.tv, which seems like a stretch.

No matter how you spin this, the long term prospects are very, very good for fans of MLB and for fans of small market teams. As local TV revenue dries up in small markets, MLB will have no choice but to boost TV revenue sharing significantly. The Brewers should eventually end up on a more level playing field because of that, even if they have to take a short-term hit to revenue when they eventually join the group of teams without an RSN deal. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, Outlander said:

Same old crap, even when another company goes bankrupt. Thumbs down to MLB.

I don't have a problem paying to watch a local team, I just want an option to pay to watch the team, untethered from a $100/mo cable package.

What I expect to see at some point in the near future is something like a $150/yr MLB.tv package with an add-on $75/yr local team option.

[bjkrautk]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/suddenly-bally-sports-wont-airing-171203549.html

That is a link to the JS Online story regarding the Padres situation in comparison to the Brewers, including a partial explanation of why the Padres are in a different boat than teams like the Twins, Guardians, etc.

(I do not know why JS Online allows some of their stories to show up on Yahoo News, thereby circumventing their own paywall, but I assume a story that is free to read is free to be reposted.)

[owbc]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I don't have a problem paying to watch a local team, I just want an option to pay to watch the team, untethered from a $100/mo cable package.

What I expect to see at some point in the near future is something like a $150/yr MLB.tv package with an add-on $75/yr local team option.

The real dream will be when that full package is given to season ticket holders for free. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, owbc said:

The real dream will be when that full package is given to season ticket holders for free. 

A great idea. 

[CheezWizHed]

Just so Tmobile customers continue getting it for free!

[nate82]

34 minutes ago, CheezWizHed said:

Just so Tmobile customers continue getting it for free!

I think that will continue as long as they are one of MLB's main sponsors. 

[SomewhereInTime]

11 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I don't have a problem paying to watch a local team, I just want an option to pay to watch the team, untethered from a $100/mo cable package.

What I expect to see at some point in the near future is something like a $150/yr MLB.tv package with an add-on $75/yr local team option.

What's even worse is for those of us in a team's "home market" who have cable tv and the MLB package but can't watch the team in the "home market" because their too far away.  This happens to me for Diamondbacks, Padres, Giants, Dodgers, A's, and Angels.  Now granted, sometimes on the local bally sports network I'd see Angels or Diamondbacks but not all of the games are televised.

[Jopal78]

15 hours ago, bjkrautk said:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/suddenly-bally-sports-wont-airing-171203549.html

That is a link to the JS Online story regarding the Padres situation in comparison to the Brewers, including a partial explanation of why the Padres are in a different boat than teams like the Twins, Guardians, etc.

(I do not know why JS Online allows some of their stories to show up on Yahoo News, thereby circumventing their own paywall, but I assume a story that is free to read is free to be reposted.)

If you follow this story the Diamond wants the direct to consumer streaming rights, but MLB has balked in making a deal with Diamond for them. Therefore, Diamond claims many of their cable broadcasts have become unprofitable,  and they cannot afford to pay what they agreed to unless they also have those streaming rights.

Apparently, if they don’t get them they will simply drop broadcast contracts where they’re losing money like San Diego’s. 

(The Brewers aren’t really affected at this point because their direct to consumer streaming rights are one of the 5 already held by Diamond. )

For the other teams where Diamond can’t get the streaming rights and do not want to give the contract back,  it looks like those teams will have to use the Court to rescind the broadcast rights and have them revert back to the team/mlb. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 hours ago, SomewhereInTime said:

What's even worse is for those of us in a team's "home market" who have cable tv and the MLB package but can't watch the team in the "home market" because their too far away.  This happens to me for Diamondbacks, Padres, Giants, Dodgers, A's, and Angels.  Now granted, sometimes on the local bally sports network I'd see Angels or Diamondbacks but not all of the games are televised.

This, along with regional blackouts, need to end. There needs to be a way to pay MLB to watch a damned baseball game no matter where you live.

[Jopal78]

33 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

This, along with regional blackouts, need to end. There needs to be a way to pay MLB to watch a damned baseball game no matter where you live.

It’s called MLB Extra Innings. I live in Chicago and can watch any team’s game via Extra Innings except the Cubs, White Sox, and whomever their opponent is on a given day. However those games are always on regular TV. 

When I had MLB.TV and streamed Brewer games they were all available there unless they played the Cubs or White Sox. 
 

If you don’t have cable and live in Milwaukee, get MLB.TV and a VPN that places your internet connection in France and you’ll see all 162 games of every team.

The real gripe here as I perceive it is that it should be cheap, quick and easy; a combination that rarely exists. 

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

3 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

It’s called MLB Extra Innings. I live in Chicago and can watch any team’s game via Extra Innings except the Cubs, White Sox, and whomever their opponent is on a given day. However those games are always on regular TV. 

When I had MLB.TV and streamed Brewer games they were all available there unless they played the Cubs or White Sox. 

If you don’t have cable and live in Milwaukee, get MLB.TV and a VPN that places your internet connection in France and you’ll see all 162 games of every team.

The real gripe here as I perceive it is that it should be cheap, quick and easy; a combination that rarely exists. 

I mean there should be an easy way to stream local games outside of a full-blown cable package, something fewer and fewer people have by the day.

What MLB is doing with the Padres - an extra fee for a specific local team - is a fine solution IMO.

[Jopal78]

Just now, Brock Beauchamp said:

I mean there should be an easy way to stream local games outside of a full-blown cable package, something fewer and fewer people have by the day.

What MLB is doing with the Padres - an extra fee for a specific local team - is a fine solution IMO.

The Padres are a unique situation. According to the reporting, they have an ownership interest in their RSN. Each team will be in a different situation with different rules as they look to monetize their streaming rights.

The system will likely get even  more convoluted, the Brewers, for example, already sold their streaming rights to Bally

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, Jopal78 said:

The Padres are a unique situation. According to the reporting, they have an ownership interest in their RSN. Each team will be in a different situation with different rules as they look to monetize their streaming rights.

The system will likely get even  more convoluted, the Brewers, for example, already sold their streaming rights to Bally

Yeah, and I'm fine with what the Brewers did but most teams do not offer a standalone streaming option, which is a big annoyance for me personally (and lots of others who cancelled cable ages ago). MLB needs to catch up to where modern viewers are going and that is an a la carte service for streaming.

[SomewhereInTime]

9 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

It’s called MLB Extra Innings. I live in Chicago and can watch any team’s game via Extra Innings except the Cubs, White Sox, and whomever their opponent is on a given day. However those games are always on regular TV. 

When I had MLB.TV and streamed Brewer games they were all available there unless they played the Cubs or White Sox. 
 

If you don’t have cable and live in Milwaukee, get MLB.TV and a VPN that places your internet connection in France and you’ll see all 162 games of every team.

The real gripe here as I perceive it is that it should be cheap, quick and easy; a combination that rarely exists. 

 

I literally have that and I cannot watch the Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Angles, A's, or Giants because I'm somehow considered to be in the home market of those teams even though four of those teams do not broadcast on my cable and two of them rarely do.

[Brock Beauchamp]

On 6/1/2023 at 5:47 PM, SomewhereInTime said:

I literally have that and I cannot watch the Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Angles, A's, or Giants because I'm somehow considered to be in the home market of those teams even though four of those teams do not broadcast on my cable and two of them rarely do.

Yep, easily the biggest problem with the current blackout rules: large swathes of the country (generally pretty low population areas, but still) are blacked out of 3+ teams. Iowa is the worst with six different blackouts in place.