I caught all kinds of shit last year speaking that truth on here. I feel scummy defending cable tv providers but what is anyone else seeing in this mess?

The media landscape has radically changed:

* cable cutting is so aggressive most providers practically throwing in free cable with internet packages to keep wallstreet from rolling their eyes back like a shark

* well known downward price pressure in EVERY market for local sports content for the past 20 years

* rise of pirated and alternative content channels for producers who haven't gone to a streaming model

hmmm...what's Altitude do in this environment? If you guessed "Stay in the rut they've been in and expect to be paid more while torching the only leverage they have in this fight (subscriber churn)" you are correct! This isn't some dipshit in legal who was having a bad day, this was a systemic failure lasting years! They had to get Kronke to reach over the top with his NFL TV contract commission seat to threaten DirectTV with the NFL Ticket or else this thing would have 0 progress for Altitude across all providers.