nfl has agreed to terms with you tube at 2 billion dollars a year. glad att no longer has to pay the nfl 1.5 billion dollars a year. saving att 1.5 billion a year.
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looks like impending layoffs at nfl ticket sunday dept that loss massive contract.
there are more people that do not care about nfl ticket than there are people that care about nfl ticket. Or else Direct tv would be posting a profit.
Losing Sunday Ticket will cause more people to drop DTV. Can't tell you how many people I have heard say "if it weren't for Sunday Ticket I'd drop 'em".
NFL ticket has never made a profit for Direct tv. A loss for Direct tv is a loss for Att in income. Which is a savings of 1.5 billion a year.
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T is no longer on the financial hook for DTV programming. T's interest is basically that of the majority shareholder.
So T wouldn't have had to pay out the cash for NFLST. Unfortunately, losing that will hurt DTV's income, which in turn hurts T since T owns about 70% of DTV shares.
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