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The NHL needs a singular streaming app to watch every game of the season

qcal1427 said:
This sounds nice but if you still want local networks and TNT/ESPN to do the broadcasts they are going to need to be paid off to do so and the package would be ridiculously expensive. The fundamental problem is that the amount of people who want to watch the entire league rather than just their entire team is IMO a lot smaller than you'd think.

MLS tried this with Apple TV and the results have been ... mixed at best
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Perhaps a lower fee to watch your team and a higher fee to watch the entire wage?

Doable?
 
Daximus said:
The league gets paid massive amounts of money for their TV rights. Rogers just gave the NHL $11 billion for the rights in Canada. TNT/ESPN just paid them $4.5 billion for the US rights. Then you have each team also selling their local rights to local networks for millions annually.

The NHL would have to charge obscene amounts of money to not only have all of that under one roof but also run the entire thing themselves in order for their to be no blackouts and have everything done in the way they want. All for most people to just pirate it anyways.

What we need is a major major player to come along and offer the NHL an absolutely obscene amount of money, Something like $30 billion for worldwide broadcast rights as well as all local rights to all games for all teams from pre-season to post season and sets up a streaming service to do so. Until then we will continue to have blackouts and scattered games. In all honestly it's probably only going to get worse as more and more players get involved. Pretty soon you'll have some games on local, some on national, some on amazon, some on apple a few over here on Hulu and a couple over there on netflix.
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This is an argument for an NFL style schedule!
 
Jumptheshark said:
here is part of the problem. TV rights.

I had NHL streaming service here in the UK and when I wanted to watch a game, it was blacked out because someone owned the right to show another hockey game and blacked out the one I wanted to watch. Until the NHL is able to either go all in on line we are screwed
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I'm in the UK. NHL.TV is $99 for the full season and has every game, including playoffs, no blackouts.
 
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thebeernerd said:
The Jetsons and Star Trek lied to us, or at the very least they neglected to consider that technological progress will only go so far as the people who create and manufacture technology will allow it.

Do we have the ability to have all NHL games on one app? Undoubtedly. Will it ever happen? No way, the league and companies that do business with it all need to extract their rents.
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What other reason would they have to offer the service at all?
 
Summer Rose said:
Bit of a repeat of what I posted on the business board, but since I'm primarily interested in Utah, it seems reasonable for most games... except when we're nationally televised (which luckily didn't happen often this season). ESPN+ covered let's say 73 games. 2 of them were captured by the local market since they were against Tampa Bay, and Gainesville is in their market area (but I went to the one in Tampa in person anyway). That left 7 national games. Worth an an arm and a leg for something like YouTube TV just for 7 games? Hell no.
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Is the time difference ever an issue for you?

Between home games and WC games I'd think that's many late nights for a Floridian transplant, nicht wahr?
 
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PistolPete said:
Is the time difference ever an issue for you?

Between home games and WC games I'd think that's many late nights for a Floridian transplant, nicht wahr?
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Sometimes. It shouldn't matter since I'm retired, but sometimes the home games (that mostly start at 9 p.m. my time) are pretty rough. As much as I don't like turning off a game before it's over, there were a few occasions this season where if it wasn't going well I'd just go to bed instead of watch the rest of the game.

It was slightly worse when the team was still in Arizona, since Arizona doesn't observe DST, so there were a few games early in the season and late in the season (corresponding to when DST ends shortly after the season starts, then begins shortly before the season ends) that started at 10 p.m. my time.

I just can't really stay up late easily, even if I don't have work to go to in the morning anymore.
 
Summer Rose said:
Sometimes. It shouldn't matter since I'm retired, but sometimes the home games (that mostly start at 9 p.m. my time) are pretty rough. As much as I don't like turning off a game before it's over, there were a few occasions this season where if it wasn't going well I'd just go to bed instead of watch the rest of the game.

It was slightly worse when the team was still in Arizona, since Arizona doesn't observe DST, so there were a few games early in the season and late in the season (corresponding to when DST ends shortly after the season starts, then begins shortly before the season ends) that started at 10 p.m. my time.

I just can't really stay up late easily, even if I don't have work to go to in the morning anymore.
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Same here. For me it's not so much zincan't stay awake as my brain shuts down and goes on autopilot sonI'm seeing the images of the game but nit necessarily processing what's happening.

Although, is that really different from the rest of my day?🤔
 
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The games would still be broadcasted to whatever feed the game is on and those networks would be getting a % of the subscription fees. Again I'm not sure how the financials would work, and they may not work at all, but I think some serious consolidation is in order here. The NHL needs more eyeballs watching their games, they need to make it as easy as possible for someone to see their product
 
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Greatzsky 99 said:
NHL gets around 3 billion in tv revenue, so at least 10 million people 300 dollar a year
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This hypothetical NHL streaming service doesn't replace the networks, it's just a doorway to the broadcasts. Let me pay a monthly fee and not have to worry about which channel my team is playing on for the night, or not be able to watch at all despite living in the area because the game is on ESPN+.

Wouldn't it be so much better to merely open up the app on your tv/device, find the game you want to watch, and immediately watch that game's broadcast through an all-encompassing app?
 
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I'd switch from Centre Ice through Bell and get Sportsnet+ for cheaper if the picture quality wasn't such a drop off. The games on Sportsnet+ look like shit compared to Centre Ice on Bell TV.

I get every game from every team in the league on Centre Ice with zero issues ever....
 
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Ceremony said:
I'm in the UK. NHL.TV is $99 for the full season and has every game, including playoffs, no blackouts.
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Yup this is one.

Finland and Sweden have Viaplay which show every game, but lots of people complain about the price (38€/month if you take one year deal or 43€/month but you can cancel any time).

But you also get movies and tv-series/Darts/Formula F1/UEFA European league football, WHC, Golf, Skiing etc with that subscription.
 
x Tame Impala said:
This hypothetical NHL streaming service doesn't replace the networks, it's just a doorway to the broadcasts. Let me pay a monthly fee and not have to worry about which channel my team is playing on for the night, or not be able to watch at all despite living in the area because the game is on ESPN+.

Wouldn't it be so much better to merely open up the app on your tv/device, find the game you want to watch, and immediately watch that game's broadcast through an all-encompassing app?
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So you'd still pay whatever it costs now to access all games, and only want the convinience of everything under one app. That's a reasonable ask, I guess.
 
OrangePMD said:
So you'd still pay whatever it costs now to access all games, and only want the convinience of everything under one app. That's a reasonable ask, I guess.
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Different tiers. Realistically I'd want all 82 of my team's games + all playoff games. Charge extra if someone wants access to all 32 team's full 82 game schedule.

Also, it would be pretty cool to watch historical games/moments from league history. I'd imagine an streaming app would be a great container for all of that data
 
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x Tame Impala said:
Different tiers. Realistically I'd want all 82 of my team's games + all playoff games. Charge extra if someone wants access to all 32 team's full 82 game schedule.

Also, it would be pretty cool to watch historical games/moments from league history. I'd imagine an streaming app would be a great container for all of that data
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Sure, but isn't vast majority of the current cost to watch you local team, and the out of market package is pocket change ?
 
Kiekura said:
Yup this is one.

Finland and Sweden have Viaplay which show every game, but lots of people complain about the price (38€/month if you take one year deal or 43€/month but you can cancel any time).

But you also get movies and tv-series/Darts/Formula F1/UEFA European league football, WHC, Golf, Skiing etc with that subscription.
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Its 64 euro in sweden if you want the complete NHL package, i had Via sport but not complete, and they showed a lot of NHL but not all
 
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