News UFC Signs 7-Year, $7.7 Billion Dollar Deal for All US Rights to UFC's Product - PPV Model is Done with Events on CBS. (Details Inside)

[DaleBoca]

The UFC and ESPN hardly did any promoting over the last couple of years. Half the time I was like “There’s a UFC event today?” And some of these were PPV cards. I guess they don’t promote through network TV but rather social media. I think it could get worse when it comes to fight promotion.

I’ve got paramount+ and think it’s a good streaming service but it’s gonna be interesting to see if they bother to promote any fights.

 

[Mesos]

Dana Interview

 

[europe1]

Uhh... how much money does Paramount expect to generate from the UFC?

 

[Connection Lost]

You cheap cans who cried for years can now get access to UFC's PPVs for the starting price point of $7.99.

If any of you cans have complaints about this, you're basically a woman, lol.

They're even putting events on CBS. What a time to be alive!

Cool, now maybe torrents will get posted faster

 

[snugglecakes]

incoming paramount plus 3x price hike announcement ?!?!?

 

[Clark Rogers]

I haven't read thru it all yet but it sounds a lot like what WWE just did. Surprised they kept the two separate though.

If they really are getting rid of the PPV and all these PLEs are just part of the monthly fee, that isn't bad.

My entire gripe with the ESPN+ model is the double pay wall, must have monthly membership to buy a ppv nonsense.

 

[JKS]

Sooooooooo UFC not dying confirmed??

 

[r-harper-1]

So Canadians are fucked ?

 

[r-harper-1]

Sooooooooo UFC not dying confirmed??

Quality is dead

 

[JKS]

Quality is dead

So UFC dying confirmed?

 

[r-harper-1]

So UFC dying confirmed?

Business wise they’re alive and well

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

It’s about time

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Uhh... how much money does Paramount expect to generate from the UFC?

 

[Barteh]

Way overdue, the PPV model has been outdated for over a decade and the sub + PPV model has always been ridiculous shit.

Good stuff for our American sherbros.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Can’t wait to cancel ESPN!!!

 

[rjmbrd]

Uhh... how much money does Paramount expect to generate from the UFC?

New owner of Paramount is the son of one of the richest humans on earth, Larry Ellison.

Ellison is also famously a Trumper, and this deal being so high could be related to Trump finally approving the Skydance/Paramount merger. Its banana republic level corruption, really wild stuff.

On its face, nobody with media rights and ad sales knowledge will believe Paramount can make net positive ROI on this deal. At least for some years its going to be a subsidy bet. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

PPV is dead which really, really needed to happen. That is a win by any measure.

 

[rjmbrd]

Even better, by the sounds of it. The numbered events are going to be on national CBS which you can pick up for free on your local antenna.

The pacing of broadcast events (with ad breaks stuffed to the legal maximum throughout) can be really brutal. Hoping the 4x/year mega events are the only ones with that pace that slowly.

It's about time to be honest. I remember posting a few days ago that my $15 antenna gets me NFL, NCAA football, tennis Grand slam finals, world series, Olympics, my local MLB/NHL teams.

This will 100% bring new fans to the sport. Long overdue !

 

[Aldo145]

My question is are they still doing "numbered" events or will it all just be fight night style bc there's no need to "stack" a card anymore and what time will they start? The 10pm main card is horrible for my old ass.

Here is what I saw from an article.

 

[560ti]

The pacing of broadcast events (with ad breaks stuffed to the legal maximum throughout) can be really brutal. Hoping the 4x/year mega events are the only ones with that pace that slow

Hopefully it's not to bad. For the national fox cards I remember they would do 4 fights starting at 7pm central and it would usually end not to long after 9 unless it was a title fight that went the full distance.

The local new came on at 9 so they would try not to intentionally drag out the event