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pghgamecock t1_ja3yrw0 wrote

Reply to comment by Lord_oftheTrons in ATT Sportsnet Bankruptcy? by randoyinzer

>Can we please get some option that doesn't require my use of a VPN to watch the games without a cable subscription. I just want to hand some group money just for the Pens games.

The only way you'd be able to do that would be to pay way more than you'd want to pay.

Cable subscribers subsidize the relatively low cost of streaming-only services like mlb.tv.

A streaming only option would be so expensive that it would just be cheaper to have cable anyway. Because as it stands, half of cable subscribers are paying the regional sports network fee but not actually watching those channels. If you take away the regional sports networks from cable, you'd have a lot smaller customer base. Taking the networks off of cable won't result in some option that's better than what you can get now.

It's not like there isn't a way to watch these games. If you want to have access to all the games, you need to get cable.

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Lord_oftheTrons t1_ja42qbi wrote

I'm not saying it needs to leave cable. It can stay there. Give me an option for $100 to give AT&T Sportsnet all that money for just Pens broadcasts without cable. Surely there is some reasonable amount that would equate to the cut they would get of my cable bill that would make sense. At this point locking people into cable isn't a winning business strategy and offering alternative ways to take my money make more sense. They are just losing out on revenue streams and we aren't going back to the way cable worked in the 90s.

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