Fubo isn’t happy about Peacock’s exclusive rights to the NFL’s Wild Card game. The streamer’s CEO, David Gandler, decried Comcast’s decision to put the playoff game exclusively on Peacock, which is owned by the cable company, as a bad decision from a business and consumer standpoint. “I’m horrified,” Gandler said at the Needham Growth Conference. […]
  • Fubo CEO, David Gandler, is unhappy about Comcast’s decision to exclusively stream an NFL Wild Card game on Peacock.
  • Fubo pays to air NBC, so the decision by Comcast creates competition between the two streaming platforms.
  • Peacock’s exclusive stream of the game reached 23 million viewers, making it the most-streamed event ever for the service.

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  • @EvilcoleslawEnglish
    4•10 months ago

    To be fair, in the local markets for the two teams involved (Miami and Kansas City), they were on over the air broadcast TV and thus also cable and satellite providers that carry those stations. Although of course the local markets for TV purposes are literally only the cities in question and people in a different part of that same state might get boned still.

    I think they should be made to be broadcast or at least free streaming only by virtue of the NFL’s specific antitrust exemptions though.