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2025-26 Canes Miscellaneous Thread

Cory Lavalette is doing a meet and greet in connection with his book, Perfect Storm, at Quail Ridge Books--one of the area's best independent book stores--on August 26th.

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Cory Lavalette M&G

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wiseguy1 said:
Are you sad?


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NHL to produce broadcasts for four teams in 2026-27

The Wild, Blues, Blue Jackets and Hurricanes will have their broadcasts taken care of by the league.
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Sad to not have to pay money to FanDuel/Main St/Ballys/Whatever they call themselves this year for their crappy, glitchy feed? No.

This only impacts the platform on which we access the games, for the record. The local production will still be the same.
 
jeffbear said:
Sad to not have to pay money to FanDuel/Main St/Ballys/Whatever they call themselves this year for their crappy, glitchy feed? No.

This only impacts the platform on which we access the games, for the record. The local production will still be the same.
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It wont even change THAT much for 95% of the fans because both Spectrum and Directv will be carrying it somewhere. For those that had to access that thing they call an App that FanDuel rolled out, will likely just have a better app to use
 
cmon3 said:
Hopefully we can stream directly instead of needing Spectrum or FirectTV.
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That will definitely be an option.
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
It wont even change THAT much for 95% of the fans because both Spectrum and Directv will be carrying it somewhere. For those that had to access that thing they call an App that FanDuel rolled out, will likely just have a better app to use
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Also, far less than 95% of fans access the games through Spectrum and DirectTV. The percentage of US households using a cable or satellite provider has plummeted to 29.5%. (That figure was about 75% ten years ago and about 85% twenty years ago.)
 
HeyKurtz said:
That will definitely be an option.

Also, far less than 95% of fans access the games through Spectrum and DirectTV. The percentage of US households using a cable or satellite provider has plummeted to 29.5%. (That figure was about 75% ten years ago and about 85% twenty years ago.)
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Yes, but that doesnt include those, like me, who dont use conventional Satellite and use their streaming service...which is still directv. But I get your point, its a streaming revolution
 
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
Yes, but that doesnt include those, like me, who dont use conventional Satellite and use their streaming service...which is still directv. But I get your point, its a streaming revolution
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Even if we lump in people like you (who use a streaming service from a traditional cable or satellite provider) and people like me (who use a streaming-only service like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live, Sling TV, Fubo, etc.), the percentage of US households that subscribe to a multi-channel TV provider stands at only 45.5%. (That’s right, folks; less than half of US households have a multi-channel TV subscription.)

While that percentage is undoubtedly higher among households that like to watch hockey on TV, the point is—as the Canes have already announced—a stand-alone streaming option has to be offered to make this work.

This concludes the HeyKurtz Media Research Lesson of the Day!
 
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HeyKurtz said:
Even if we lump in people like you (who use a streaming service from a traditional cable or satellite provider) and people like me (who use a streaming-only service like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live, Sling TV, Fubo, etc.), the percentage of US households that subscribe to a multi-channel TV provider stands at only 45.5%. (That’s right, folks; less than half of US households have a multi-channel TV subscription.)

While that percentage is undoubtedly higher among households that like to watch hockey on TV, the point is—as the Canes have already announced—a stand-along streaming option has to be offered to make this work.

This concludes the HeyKurtz Media Research Lesson of the Day!
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Good shit man
 
andyt said:
I’m still on U-Verse, I can’t convince my wife to switch to YouTube TV.
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I waited far too long for me to drop U-Verse and get on YouTube TV, but I'm glad I finally did so. It is much cheaper - and I haven't missed the cable box and satellite boxes at all.
 
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
Good shit man
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To go even geekier on this topic...

For those interested, the deliniation we use in the media business is MVPD versus vMVPD.

The former stands for Multichannel Video Programming Distributor. It is the industry and legal term for a traditional pay TV services that deliver multiple live, linear channels via cable, fiber, or satellite. Think Spectrum cable, DirecTV satellite, U-verse, etc.

The latter stands for Virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor. It is the industry and legal term for pay TV services that deliver mutliple live, linear channels over the internet. Think YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, DirecTV Stream, SLing TV, etc.

Following up on my math above, 29.5% of US households subscribe to MVPDs and another 16% subscribe to vMVPDs. Here are the trends, which show the decline in MVPDs and rise of vMVPDs since the first of the latter--Sling TV--launched in 2015.

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HeyKurtz said:
To go even geekier on this topic...

For those interested, the deliniation we use in the media business is MVPD versus vMVPD.

The former stands for Multichannel Video Programming Distributor. It is the industry and legal term for a traditional pay TV services that deliver multiple live, linear channels via cable, fiber, or satellite. Think Spectrum cable, DirecTV satellite, U-verse, etc.

The latter stands for Virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor. It is the industry and legal term for pay TV services that deliver mutliple live, linear channels over the internet. Think YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, DirecTV Stream, SLing TV, etc.

Following up on my math above, 29.5% of US households subscribe to MVPDs and another 16% subscribe to vMVPDs. Here are the trends, which show the decline in MVPDs and rise of vMVPDs since the first of the latter--Sling TV--launched in 2015.

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So what do the other 55.5% of the country do? Steal it with those apps like Kodi on the fire stick or just flip TikTok 24/7
 
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