Everything was aligned: consumers liked TV, they got it for free over the air, and advertisers wanted to reach as many people as possible with the most persuasive of mediums. But he still cannot quite admit that it is over. COVID-19, ???? ??? and the third side of that is kids still really want to play,” he said. Kansas Jayhawks coach Les Miles has tested positive for COVID-19, the university announced Thursday. “I think that the unlimited defensive substitutions really emphasize what this is about,” Waldwick coach Dan Freeman said. I think this is also the best way to understand Amazon and Apple?s original content ambitions; the point isn?t to compete with Netflix, but rather to make their storefronts the place consumers go to to subscribe to other services. I suspect most of them will find it difficult to achieve the sort of scale with streaming that will justify making the sort of investments that Disney has committed to, leaving a muddle-along approach that includes traditional TV, sales to Netflix and Hulu, and standalone streaming services. Netflix for consumer attention, the goals of the two services are very different: for Netflix, streaming is its entire business, the sole driver of revenue and profit.

Instead it falls on Hulu to be the Netflix competitor, or, probably more accurately, the Netflix hedge. Hulu. At first glance, it might seem odd that the company has three distinct streaming services; why not put all of the company?s efforts behind a single offering? As long as Hulu is around Netflix is not the only alternative for selling streaming rights or original content that happens to exist for its own sake, not because it is part of something bigger. Hulu, meanwhile, will continue as a nominal Netflix competitor and general guardian of Disney?s non-branded content businesses. Netflix (again, with the rather obvious exception that consumers only have 24 hours in a day). The resellers will help the specialists get in front of consumers and facilitate the transaction, taking a cut along the way. Just in case observers did not understand that it was an emotional moment for Mr. Armstrong, two minutes into a companywide meeting explaining the closings, he publicly fired Abel Lenz, the creative director of Patch, for taking a picture of him. The moment was incredible on its own; that the CBS announcers saw fit to stay silent for two minutes and forty seconds and let the pictures and sounds from Augusta National?s 18th green tell the story spoke not only to their judgment but also to the unmatched drama that makes television the most valuable medium there is.

This is the exact bet that Rupert Murdoch made with Fox; remember that Disney didn?t buy the entire company: Murdoch kept the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations, Fox News Group, and the Fox Sports Media Group. In fact, I just explained why: in a world where distribution mattered more than anything else it made sense for Disney to put all of its television properties together; that offered maximum leverage with the cable companies. Sports are best consumed live, which means that traditional TV distribution like cable or satellite is in fact preferable to streaming. Perhaps the single most defining feature of the Internet from a business perspective is the removal of the means of distribution as the primary point of differentiation in a value chain, and TV is a perfect example. That dramatically increases competition for consumer attention, and to win that competition means developing a business model that is aligned with the job to be done. Twitter is doing a great job on monetization but it seems a little ridiculous that most people don?t know that if you start a tweet with an @ mention, that only the people that follow you and that handle will see it in their feed (here is a quick fix).

I?m about to build up some context on why I think this is the right path, but if you just want to see the solution scroll down to Solution section. As a little aside, those sports drinks that you see super athletes drinking on TV aren’t going to help your kids either. I’m going to bed. Disney made in the last decade was going on a huge sports rights buying binge. This strikes me as an extreme change that gets made only as a last resort. In December, a committee of outside experts released a 27-page report concluding last year’s home run rate could be attributed to inconsistent seam height and also hitters embracing launch angle (i.e. trying to hit more homers). The backboard can be the trickiest part to install if the system is a fixed height system. Sports are highly differentiated, which mean that people will pay more to get access; this is why ESPN was able to create the affiliate fee business model in the first place, and can continue to drive the highest fees in the industry – by far. More than 350 people at Patch were laid off and hundreds of sites were shuttered.

TV generally. And, like any great drama, what is happening it not only a compelling story in its own right, but a lens with which to understand far more than the subject matter at hand. Indeed, it is a testament to just how lucrative the traditional TV model is that it took so long for Disney to shift to this approach: it is a far better fit for their business in the long run than simply spreading content around to the highest bidder. That results in a far better experience for consumers, who can watch what they want when they want it without any annoyances. After a morning COVID-19 scare, the New York Jets announced Friday night that they received negative test results for every player, coach and personnel staffer. This shift was led by ESPN, which introduced the concept of affiliate fees in 1982, made them nationwide by leveraging Sunday Night Football in 1987, and inspired countless imitators and transformed the TV industry along the way. Even better, if multiple channels banded together, the resultant conglomerates – Viacom, NBCUniversal, Disney, etc. – could compel the cable companies to pay affiliate fees for all their channels, popular or not.