Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

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How would you all rank the various places listed as potential pac media partners (not including traditional ESPN or Fox)? Apple, Amazon, CW, ION, ESPN+

Mine:
  1. CW - It would be weird, but at least people flipping channels will find it.
  2. ESPN+ - Most sports fans have it and may choose to watch the PAC game, I'm always using the ESPN app.
  3. ION - Like CW, but even less distributed and stranger.
  4. Amazon - Most people have Prime, but not likely to find it unless looking for it. It is not Thursday Night Football.
  5. Apple - I can't imagine many people have it, nor would they be signing up to get PAC games.
Curious to hear other thoughts as Twitter seems obsessed that Apple wants the biggest games and CW would be the linear part. I just feel having Apple be their primary distributor is a massive mistake for both Apple and the PAC.
 
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How would you all rank the various places listed as potential pac media partners (not including traditional ESPN or Fox)? Apple, Amazon, CW, ION, ESPN+

Mine:
  1. CW - It would be weird, but at least people flipping channels will find it.
  2. ESPN+ - Most sports fans have it and may choose to watch the PAC game, I'm always using the ESPN app.
  3. ION - Like CW, but even less distributed and stranger.
  4. Amazon - Most people have Prime, but not likely to find it unless looking for it. It is not Thursday Night Football.
  5. Apple - I can't imagine many people have it, nor would they be signing up to get PAC games.
Curious to hear other thoughts as Twitter seems obsessed that Apple wants the biggest games and CW would be the linear part. I just feel having Apple be their primary distributor is a massive mistake for both Apple and the PAC.
I would rank:
1. CW
2. ION - got to get on linear somehow
3. ESPN+ - they have less subs than Amazon but get the ESPN gameday promotion
4. Amazon
5. Apple
 

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I mean desperate times call for desperate measures. Would be able to tout serious viewership numbers. Just would have to distract people from the fact 99% of the viewers are watching that embedded bottom third video box playing…what is that? an ad for skincare or some sort of extra camera footage that’s really inside the “action”?
 
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How would you all rank the various places listed as potential pac media partners (not including traditional ESPN or Fox)? Apple, Amazon, CW, ION, ESPN+

Mine:
  1. CW - It would be weird, but at least people flipping channels will find it.
  2. ESPN+ - Most sports fans have it and may choose to watch the PAC game, I'm always using the ESPN app.
  3. ION - Like CW, but even less distributed and stranger.
  4. Amazon - Most people have Prime, but not likely to find it unless looking for it. It is not Thursday Night Football.
  5. Apple - I can't imagine many people have it, nor would they be signing up to get PAC games.
Curious to hear other thoughts as Twitter seems obsessed that Apple wants the biggest games and CW would be the linear part. I just feel having Apple be their primary distributor is a massive mistake for both Apple and the PAC.

Apple having a popular well known physical device called Apple TV and a streaming service called Apple TV+ is, in my opinion, one of the most stupid things an otherwise successful company has ever done.

They come up with all sorts of names for their operating systems. They should've given the streaming content service a real unique name from the start.
 
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Apple having a popular well known physical device called Apple TV and a streaming service called Apple TV+ is, in my opinion, one of the most stupid things an otherwise successful company has ever done.

They come up with all sorts of names for their operating systems. They should've given the streaming content service a real unique name from the start.
Should be iTV and iStream+
 

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Apple having a popular well known physical device called Apple TV and a streaming service called Apple TV+ is, in my opinion, one of the most stupid things an otherwise successful company has ever done.

They come up with all sorts of names for their operating systems. They should've given the streaming content service a real unique name from the start.
Yeah, I know a lot of people that think or have thought you have to have an Apple device to get AppleTV+, which as you know, you dont. Many dont realize you can get AppleTV+ on most streaming devices/tvs.

They definitely need better marketing of the difference.

It is very similar to how many people dont understand there is Hulu and there is Hulu+Live. Hulu has realized this issue and has had marketing campaigns to promote the difference, how much it helped I dont know because a lot of people I think still dont realize the difference. I have had conversations with people that dont realize it.
 
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Yeah, I know a lot of people that think or have thought you have to have an Apple device to get AppleTV+, which as you know, you dont. Many dont realize you can get AppleTV+ on most streaming devices/tvs.

They definitely need better marketing of the difference.

It is very similar to how many people dont understand there is Hulu and there is Hulu+Live. Hulu has realized this issue and has had marketing campaigns to promote the difference, how much it helped I dont know because a lot of people I think still dont realize the difference. I have had conversations with people that dont realize it.
Same thing that doomed PlayStation VUE from the start...
 
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