Washington DC cable provider is dropping MASN July 1st.

[oh-wee-ohs]

3 hours ago, weams said:

 

Has there been talk about that being a thing? I would love that.

[Frobby]

37 minutes ago, oh-wee-ohs said:

Has there been talk about that being a thing? I would love that.

Yes, MLB is going to put several games on YouTube next year.   

[oh-wee-ohs]

32 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Yes, MLB is going to put several games on YouTube next year.   

Oh. Like their current free game of the week thing they do? That's cool. I was wishful thinking some mega deal where all games would be available. Maybe one day!

[fansince1988]

11 hours ago, Frobby said:

Yes, MLB is going to put several games on YouTube next year.   

No, they are doing it this year. Next game on YouTube is this coming Monday.

 

[weams]

12 hours ago, oh-wee-ohs said:

Has there been talk about that being a thing? I would love that.

Yes. They did one the other day. 

[DrungoHazewood]

On 7/22/2019 at 6:47 PM, Can_of_corn said:

You haven't met my father.

I thought when you turned 65 they just superglued your remote so it's always on Fox News.  That's my parents' house.

[dedwretched]

On 7/22/2019 at 6:46 PM, atomic said:

They sued people for sharing on  Napster.  When Napster first came up I was in my first job out of college in the fall of 1999 we were set up napster servers in our offices. We had T1 line linking us to the Internet and to our DC offices.  I was looking my co-workers Napster server and I saw he was using the whole T1 bandwidth I told him he might want to cut some of the bandwidth usage and I the next thing I heard was an announcement that the phone lines were down.   If you did something like that a few years later you would have been instantly fired but back then it was all new. 

I think I had something like 100,000 downloads from my server Thanksgiving holiday that year. I only turned my server on during the weekends. Not too many people had T1 Napster servers back then. 

Now you can stream every song in the world for $6.99 a month.  How things have changed.   

It was only because that short, whiny drummer complained about Napster and not getting paid. Things were fine before then.

Also, you can't stream every song in the world. Some you still have to dig for in vinyl crates in some far off land to get a chance to listen to. Or maybe only one test press was available and that was the only way to ever hear the song. Sorry for being so literal!

[eddie83]

On 6/15/2019 at 7:29 PM, eddie83 said:

No way Nats don’t beat those numbers.  

Orioles out rate Nats. Orioles up from last year.

Both much higher than Caps and Wizards.  

[eddie83]

More info. 

 

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2019/10/07/Ratings-and-Research/MLB-RSNs.aspx

[eddie83]

I hope this ends the idea that the Orioles are still not a big deal. Yes the DC market is bigger so the Nats had more viewers. That said, the Orioles went into the season telling anyone who would listen they would be awful. The Nats did have a bad start but they end up in the playoffs. 

And as usual these numbers for local baseball far outperform the Caps and Wizards. 

[Can_of_corn]

On 7/24/2019 at 10:27 AM, DrungoHazewood said:

I thought when you turned 65 they just superglued your remote so it's always on Fox News.  That's my parents' house.

He's got a button that takes him back to the last channel he was on.  The other button is set to Fox.

[webbrick2010]

On 6/15/2019 at 10:54 AM, Frobby said:

They didn’t agree on price.   

I’m pretty sure that the O’s recently (last 2 years or so) negotiated new long term deals with Comcast and Fios.    It looks like they offered the same terms to RCN but they wouldn’t agree.   It’ll be a bummer for a few thousand fans who use RCN, but isn’t really a “trend” in that Comcast and Fios are locked in for a good while and carry vastly  more subscribers than RCN.

FIOS (Verizon) and Comcast may be locked in but not me.

Just downgraded to  a package that does not include MASN

[weams]

2 hours ago, webbrick2010 said:

FIOS (Verizon) and Comcast may be locked in but not me.

Just downgraded to  a package that does not include MASN

I say cut the cable all together!

[Luke-OH]

4 hours ago, eddie83 said:

I hope this ends the idea that the Orioles are still not a big deal. Yes the DC market is bigger so the Nats had more viewers. That said, the Orioles went into the season telling anyone who would listen they would be awful. The Nats did have a bad start but they end up in the playoffs. 

And as usual these numbers for local baseball far outperform the Caps and Wizards. 

Yep and all this "will the fans come back?" stuff. If the Orioles build a winner, the stadium will be packed and the ratings will be high. 

[Can_of_corn]

6 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

Yep and all this "will the fans come back?" stuff. If the Orioles build a winner, the stadium will be packed and the ratings will be high. 

I'm not sure about packed.  I think they would max out at around 2.75M, which is a far cry from what they did in the 90's.