Streaming Paywall: How Amazon's reported investment in Diamond Sports Group will impact your viewing! (Episode 955)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: https://davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop/ Today’s word of the day is ‘paywall’ as in pay per view as in Netflix as in Amazon as in Max as in everything you want to see is going to be behind a paywall. Remember the cable bundle? Welcome back! Let’s talk about the RSNs and what’s happening with MLB. (16:00) What was the conclusion of the Nationals and Orioles settlement? Hundreds of millions of dollars! Now that that’s wrapped up what will happen to each club? (27:25) Review: Little Richard - I Am Everything. (30:55) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Miles Bridges not being let into Canada for an NBA game. Will he get paid? What happens when this happens with your player? (37:40) NPPOD. (43:15) NFL Brazil! Are the Miami Dolphins heading down to South… America? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Make Match days easy with Google Pay.
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0:11.0	Match days made easy with Google Pay.
0:13.6	Add a card to your Google wallet. Paywall. That's the nothing personal Word of the day. It is Tuesday, December 19th,
0:37.0	2023.
0:41.0	Coke and I am preparing for this show have been talking a lot about paywalls, thinking about the
0:47.0	sporting class shows that we've recorded with Skipper, and about the streaming services and all of the new apps that you all can get that I get to trying to keep track of what I'm streaming, what I'm bundling, what I'm paying per month,
1:02.0	feeling like you're getting
1:03.5	nicled and dined, and it just automatically renews
1:06.5	like Columbia Records.
1:10.0	And it occurred to me that it's time now for you all to realize and for me to realize there's no going back.
1:17.8	Paywalls are our present and our future. You deciding what you want to watch, when you want to watch
1:26.3	it, comes at a price. And the question will always be, what are you willing to pay to watch what you want to watch and at
1:36.3	what point does the price become too big that the inflection point happens and
1:40.9	you say you know what I'm going to cut my expenses here and I will
1:45.6	pass on watching this event or that event. The reason why it's been in our head
1:52.2	is that the number one story of
1:55.1	2023 and we told you from the beginning it would be number one and it has been
2:00.0	it is still number one and that is the bankruptcy of Diamond. You may know it as
2:06.6	Bally's regional sports networks. They've got baseball teams, hockey teams, basketball teams.
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