NFL Monopoly?

Actually, they're trying to get the cable companies to charge everyone, regardless of whether or not they give a damn about NFL football, for the channel. They refuse to come to any sort of agreement where NFL network isn't a basic channel and where they don't get 61 cents per month per basic cable subscriber. In cases where they were moved to a sports package, they're suing the cable company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Net...on_controversy

I don't think that there will ever be a PPV type of broadcast for football, but I do agree that this is bullshit, and I think that within a few years that exactly what WW described above is going to happen. They will jack up prices, give EVERYONE the NFL Network like it was in the past, and simply pawn it off as inflation...

Well, some international soccer games are PPV. So it wouldn't surprise me.

It would surprise me that's for sure. Fox, CBS, and ESPN pay BILLIONS of dollars to the NFL for broadcasting rights of their games. If the NFL decided to go to PPV, they would never make back the same profit margin as they are now. Even if there was potential to get that much money (and there isn't), it would take a HUGE act from them, plus everything could suddenly go down the shitter if people don't actually pay for the services. Too risky.

Actually, they're trying to get the cable companies to charge everyone, regardless of whether or not they give a damn about NFL football, for the channel. They refuse to come to any sort of agreement where NFL network isn't a basic channel and where they don't get 61 cents per month per basic cable subscriber. In cases where they were moved to a sports package, they're suing the cable company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Net...on_controversy

Ahh, now see I must've been misinformed somewhat from the get-go, reguardless I feel as if the shift will still maintain to happen, thuough PPV won't ever happen because of the billions in revenue they get from ESPN/affiliate channels to broadcast the games.

Ahh, now see I must've been misinformed somewhat from the get-go

This holds true at any time.

This holds true at any time.

The same can be said for you.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The same can be said for you.

Just another example of that.