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Will sports broadcasts start looking like Amazon's "Twitch"?

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TV viewership is dropping across the board — including for live sports, which were supposed to be immune to shrinking ratings.

NBA boss Adam Silver has a solution: Make sports look more like video games.

Specifically, make them look like Twitch, Amazon’s platform for live gaming, which features a blizzard of live stats and a steady stream of chatter from gamers watching the event in real time.

“I think to a lot of older consumers, used to looking at sports, it might might look incredibly cluttered,” Silver said at the Code Commerce event in New York City. But it’s the kind of presentation that could appeal to younger viewers, he said.

Silver, whose league has made a point of embracing Twitter and other digital media outlets, argued that traditional TV broadcasts of NBA games and other pro sports have been essentially unchanged for the past 30 years. It’s “almost like a silent movie,” he said.

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/13/16304278/nba-twitch-adam-silver-tv-ratings-facebook-amazon

I guess this makes me a dinosaur, but I'll absolutely hate this. Already too much peripheral crap during a broadcast for my taste.
 
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If you switch Sports Broadcasting to be more like twitch, it takes out the legitimacy of Sports IMO. You see Twitch is very popular with Esports, but people watch sports to hear "experts" insights... This would not help sports
 
I'm interested. They can keep the main feed as is, but allow other people to stream the game and commentate how they see fit. Maybe they'll find niches that they haven't thought of before.

Maybe a stream is more analytical, watched from a different angle, whatever.
 
Can they just have two alternate channels like they do with big bowl games? One channel that shows the classic broadcast for us 35 year olds who actually want to watch the game. And then an alternate channel that shows the game played by Sonic the Hedgehog or whatever the **** for the 12 year olds who don't know any better.
 
Set it up like the YouTube Live channels and I would dig it. Either go full screen, or regular with the chat window to the side.
 
I do not own a 65" 4k screen to watch sports like I'm watching YouTube stream. Then again I'm just a Gen X dinosaur and apparently millennials are content to watch everything on their 4" cell phone screens a day after the game is over.

That said, I do enjoy the occasional experimentation ESPN has done for big games with the coaches' commentary roundtable during the national championship game. However, I don't have much interest in being able to follow along with a chat stream to see BamaBro92's hot take on the last play and Harbaugh's fashion choices for the game.
 
I can see the appeal of augmenting the broadcast with live stat tracking/analysis. Do not want live chat feed from the general public.
 
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I do not own a 65" 4k screen to watch sports like I'm watching YouTube stream. Then again I'm just a Gen X dinosaur and apparently millennials are content to watch everything on their 4" cell phone screens a day after the game is over.

That said, I do enjoy the occasional experimentation ESPN has done for big games with the coaches' commentary roundtable during the national championship game. However, I don't have much interest in being able to follow along with a chat stream to see BamaBro92's hot take on the last play and Harbaugh's fashion choices for the game.
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Twitch appeals to young viewers because of it's content, not because of it's presentation. Live chat feeds are useless for anything popular, and only works for twitch because of the nature of the content and the community, of which neither seem necessary for the sports world.
 
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Don’t we all kinda do this here during the games? But other than this, F that cluttered, not-real sports crap.
 
I don't think it has anything to do with viewing experience, and everything to do with the number of BS games that don't matter in MLB, NHL, NBA, and pretty much every soccer league around the world (except Champions League and World Cup play). The excess schedule makes the sports boring because you can drop so many games without much of a consequence. All of the current division leaders in MLB have lost 50+ games. Whereas dropping a game in CFB, CBB, or the NFL has a huge impact on your season. Yes, I know the NFL is losing viewership too, but not to the same degree as MLB or the NBA.
 
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I don't think it has anything to do with viewing experience, and everything to do with the number of BS games that don't matter in MLB, NHL, NBA, and pretty much every soccer league around the world (except Champions League and World Cup play). The excess schedule makes the sports boring because you can drop so many games without much of a consequence. All of the current division leaders in MLB have lost 50+ games. Whereas dropping a game in CFB, CBB, or the NFL has a huge impact on your season. Yes, I know the NFL is losing viewership too, but not to the same degree as MLB or the NBA.
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I hope you're feeling better!
 
SickerThnYou said:
I don't think it has anything to do with viewing experience, and everything to do with the number of BS games that don't matter in MLB, NHL, NBA, and pretty much every soccer league around the world (except Champions League and World Cup play). The excess schedule makes the sports boring because you can drop so many games without much of a consequence. All of the current division leaders in MLB have lost 50+ games. Whereas dropping a game in CFB, CBB, or the NFL has a huge impact on your season. Yes, I know the NFL is losing viewership too, but not to the same degree as MLB or the NBA.
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Hot take, but haven't those sports always had a lot of games? Hard to make a correlation for effect when the cause hasn't changed.
 
SickerThnYou said:
I don't think it has anything to do with viewing experience, and everything to do with the number of BS games that don't matter in MLB, NHL, NBA, and pretty much every soccer league around the world (except Champions League and World Cup play). The excess schedule makes the sports boring because you can drop so many games without much of a consequence. All of the current division leaders in MLB have lost 50+ games. Whereas dropping a game in CFB, CBB, or the NFL has a huge impact on your season. Yes, I know the NFL is losing viewership too, but not to the same degree as MLB or the NBA.
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50 out of 162 is very close to 5 out of 16, which is what most division leaders wind up with by end of season.
The football product isn't very good, just look at the QB play.
But it's football and a lot of people don't know anything else or want anything else
 
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