Thank you posters for your interesting well thought out posts.
As the "moat" has had the water drained, and it has been filled in,I decided to sell my shares.
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Thank you posters for your interesting well thought out posts.
As the "moat" has had the water drained, and it has been filled in,I decided to sell my shares.
Yeah this is huge news for Steven Adams and for NZ sports fans. I mean to get picked number 12 in the draft. There are literally tens of thousands of American kids going for the NBA and here a little old NZ'er from Rotorua gets to play with the best. OKC is a great team too and as turmeric said, there will be plenty of kiwis willing to watch the Oklahoma games. I beleive you can buy a sub at nba.com! Again via the net. It really is the future of broadcasting. When I was overseas from 2006- recently I watched AB's games online and a lot of Super 15 that way too. As all the tennis I watch is streamed.
But then you come to NZ and are opposed by this foreign thing called "data cap". NZ must be the only developed country to even have something this archaic and bizarre?
But Sky need to change with the times. Didnt they a few years back offer SKy via the pc/net if you were a subscriber only to "can" it later as they realised that ppl could not pay the data usage?
You would be risking a bit if you were you to pick up all the rights to OKC games. I have been an OKC fan since they were ther Sonics under George Karl with Gary the "Glove" and "The man with 13 kids" Shawn Kemp. From what I have been reading on a few sites, the draft pick they inherited via the Harden trade with Houston was always going to be looked at as trade material. Imagine if Someone bought the rights and he was traded - yikes! :)
Stoked for Adams though - huge achievement! Hope he can stay injury free, an athletic big man is worth their wait in gold.
Good discussion lately for us less tech-literate types. From my semi-informed position I can see that life is going to be much harder for SKT in future so have lightened up my position there. It's been a very good stock to me over the years, going back to parent INL days.
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No doubt Tumeric, you are right that this should spike interest levels in the NBA. Especially if he gets regular game time which unfortunately Marks didn't get - great in the blow outs. I sold out of SKY a couple of months back, and glad I did. I was always suspicious of the "Fibre" age. Went to a few conferences on Fibre a couple of years back and they spoke about the increase of 'on demand' TV in the States for the busy world we live in - people don't want to be restricted to schedules anymore. Always had that in the back of my mind.
In regards to the NBA and SKY, I am not sure of the contract they have. Like the Champions League it is all through ESPN. I would say that they have no control over the games they get and it would be relatively cheap. I lived in Japan for five years, there you would buy channels dedicated to sports. I had the NBA pass and loved the fact you could get a game a day at the very least. Especially as OKC were just a minor team then and didn't appear on the big networks. I am guessing you are right that this development (Adams) could see increased competition for the rights. A dedicated team pass would be risky though.
While we like to think we are alone in implementing data caps - and remember, it's the media that keeping pumping this issue -we are not infact alone. Many providers in the Canada, the USA and the UK apply data caps, or at the very least place a "fair use" policy on their broadband connections. Fair use ends up being an arbitrary non-disclosed data cap.
There are also arguments brewing around 'net neutrality', which boils down to carriers wanting permission to prioritise traffic are charges fees for doing so.
This author thinks the writing is on the wall....
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...-may-be-coming
I disconnected my Sky Sports last week. It was purely a reaction to losing the EPL.
To my surprise, they did not ask why I was disconnecting or even encourage me to stay. Is this monopoly being a bit complacent? I would have thought they would want to monitor reasons for leaving.
I gave up on them when they dumped moto gp, Now watching on the internet .
Stuff Headline: Another sport gone from Sky
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Paper Tiger
I guess we should all take note of what Murdoch does. If anyone should know the media scene, he should!
So what is the answer for SKT?
Or is it really just that their business model has been overtaken by advances in net technology - and that they might as well recognise that and prepare for an eventual demise?
Disc: Not interested in NFL but regret the loss of EPL on Sky.