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I watch a lot of Youtube News about all forms of racing besides SX&MX. Racing video vlogger David Hand reported that NBCSN may be going away on Nov. 2021 after the Indy Car season is done. This has all kinds of rumors on where all the racing will go.
The first big rumor it will go to their "Peacock" network, their "Paid To Stream" service. This means Indy Car, NASCAR, Supercross and Motocross will be "Paid To Stream".
The second big rumor... ABC/ESPN is going to pick it back up.
Fox is looking to get out of racing and could be dumping NASCAR after the 2021 season.
For people that pay a cable premium for sports channels, this is bad news.
People have been saying... "Bring back "Speedvision", but FOX owns the rights to Speedvision. I don't see that happening.
I would think the smart choice would be going to "MAVTV". The channel that the first Motos of the Outdoors is shown.
Personally, I cut the cable a long time ago and been paying for the streaming of SX and MX. The cost of 2 SX tickets pays for the whole season.
The first big rumor it will go to their "Peacock" network, their "Paid To Stream" service. This means Indy Car, NASCAR, Supercross and Motocross will be "Paid To Stream".
The second big rumor... ABC/ESPN is going to pick it back up.
Fox is looking to get out of racing and could be dumping NASCAR after the 2021 season.
For people that pay a cable premium for sports channels, this is bad news.
People have been saying... "Bring back "Speedvision", but FOX owns the rights to Speedvision. I don't see that happening.
I would think the smart choice would be going to "MAVTV". The channel that the first Motos of the Outdoors is shown.
Personally, I cut the cable a long time ago and been paying for the streaming of SX and MX. The cost of 2 SX tickets pays for the whole season.
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Not sure what that would mean for SX. Has the cable TV landscape changed so much in the 2 years since NBC bought SX, that they would just dump it now? Or are they just pushing it to Peacock?
Personally, I would prefer for SX (and MX) to remain available on cable TV. But young people are less and less likely to even have cable, so having it available live streaming may be all that matters in the long run.
They also have a Premium Plus plan for $9.99 that eliminates most commercials, but I would think the SX programming will still have ads, since the race program has natural breaks anyway.
I think it might be a good thing for hard core fans, who are cord-cutters, if SX/MX goes to Peacock. Also it might be a decent way to find new fans, if the live races get a prominent spot on their home page on Saturday nights.
(Thought it's worse for me, because I like to TiVo the SX races, and then start watching later in the night or on Sundays so I can skip commercials.)
And 731chopper is right, 2020 changed the TV landscape forever. The new reach of smaller platforms and the "ala carte" menus are things people involved with TV have been hinting at for years, but it grabbed a couple gears in 2020.
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The biggest issue is that they only show events on the streaming service that aren't being broadcast live on either NBCSN or Network NBC. So in order to see all the football matches, I need all 3 services.
I'd still gladly pay for the Gold app if I could watch live commercial free SX/MX. Either way, I imagine they will do whatever ends up costing us more.
Edit: It looks like the Premier League games are archived so maybe the SX and MX will be also.
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