Re:The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop
by douche on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:50AM
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You can have local blackouts if they don't sell enough of the seats in the stadium. It doesn't happen a lot, unless you live in the Jacksonville market.
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Re:The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop
by PhantomGremlin on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @06:58AM
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No longer applicable. From Wiki[1]:
On March 23, 2015, the NFL's owners voted to
suspend the blackout rules for the 2015 NFL
season, meaning that all games will be
televised in their home markets, regardless
of ticket sales
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_telev...
Wow, that sucks. I didn't realize that. Is that supposed to encourage people to go to the stadium? It seems like a good way to just drive away fans.
That's just what you do when you have a monopoly. Your customers can't go anywhere else to get your product, so it doesn't matter as much how you treat them.
It's a monopoly without lockin, though. It's entirely possible for customers to just stop being customers, which seems like the likely result of abusive behavior.
The same could be said of religion. But people seem to have a pretty strong need to participate in that kind of thing. They often make it a very strong part of their identity.
So it's not entirely unlike an addiction.