If Fox Sports CEO David Hill had any qualms about live streaming simulcasts with TV, it sounds like the Olympics took care of it. Hill told the Online Journal more actual games overall would dilute the product but simulcasting games on online “won’t in any way harm the telecast. The figures we saw out of the Olympics back that up. As long as you don’t get your affiliates up in arms, as long as you keep them happy I can’t see anything wrong with that.”
No comment on whether Fox would stream its NFL games or on the difference between simulcasting and the NBC Sports strategy of reserving major events for TV first.
i'm not sure about streaming but i would like mr hill to know that at noon today i began watching the packers and titans, i watched every minute of it until about 3:15pm in overtime with the titans field goal kicker about 20 seconds away from attempting what would be the winning field goal, some moron decided i needed to see about four minutes of mind-numbing commercials before the giant-cowboys game. whats wrong with you people? thanks for clearing up for me where the fan stands. i made note of the ads and will brig to the attention of the advertisers why i wont be buying their products nor watching any ads on fox, i am fast on the remote
FOX was well aware of the situation in the Green Bay-Tennessee game when we left it. We're contractually obligated to take the markets tied to the three late games we had scheduled to the kickoff of their 4:15 game. Unfortunately, we have certain commercial obligations that we must run at the conclusion of one game and before the next.
While that's the explanation for what we did, I'm sure it's of little solace to viewers upset with us.
Lou