re: Are Fox, CBS, & NBC the ones blocking Sunday Ticket from going to all carriers?

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I don't understand how direct tv is making money because they give away sunday ticket for free or discounted price if you complain enough.

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That is not the norm, first of all. Secondly, it is also an incentive to get people to switch to DirecTV for their cable in general. Of course now they offer the ability to just buy Sunday Ticket a la carte. So I can only assume they think they will make more money that way.

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I don't understand how direct tv is making money because they give away sunday ticket for free or discounted price if you complain enough.

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They don't care about making individual customers pay as much as they care about their cash cow: Sports Bars. And when it goes to cable, out of town fans stop going to sports bars and pool their money and start watching the games together at somebody's house. Sports bars don't do that and their establishments would literally be empty on Sunday afternoons, so they're good forking out cash and keeping the status quo.