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The Reinvention of Broadcasting: What's Old is New Again
Nexstar generates more free cash flow than its larger media peers.
Increasing investor focus on free cash flow generation as
the primary method to create shareholder value which
favors broadcasting business models
Streaming players are eliminating their differentiated
consumer offering by adopting superior broadcast
television business model and going ad-supported in the
national market
Advertisers continue to seek out broadcasters as the only
place to find audiences at scale
Broadcast television is the most important medium for
engaging live sports audiences
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Audiences prefer broadcast delivery
Streaming has challenges for sports: fragmented
audiences, consumer cost, technological issues
Latest NFL media contract requires the NFL to be on
broadcast through 2033
Team owners looking to maximize their local
audience, fans and franchise values, are returning to
broadcast television (e.g. Clippers on KTLA)
Adam Silver recently quoted saying that broadcasters
may be an option for underserved NBA content
10/18/22: Netflix Follows Broadcast-Centric Business Models After
Years of Innovation (Source: Online Video News)
NETFLIX
7/27/22: For the 22/23 Upfront, "Media Dynamics says...that the five
broadcast TV networks took in $9.9 billion in primetime sales,
up...6.4%"
Nielsen: NFL audiences choose local broadcast over Amazon Prime
% of In-Market Viewership of TNF through Week 17 (December 29, 2022)
Amazon
Prime, 33%
Local Broadcast,
67%
3/28/21: NFL announces new broadcast deals running through
2033...preserving its custom of keeping all NFL contests on over-
the-air television. (Source: NFL)
NFL
9/20/22: KTLA 5 Will Exclusively Air 15 Clippers Games This Season
and Produce Pre-game, Halftime, and Post-Game Programming
(Source: Nexstar)
CLIPPERS KTLA 5
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