Just to show that no one is immune from being relegated to streaming services, the next two O$U games (MD and Purdue) will be shown exclusively on Peacock. I believe these are the first O$U games not on an over-the-air or traditional cable network. The times they are a-changing.

This is the first year of B10's contract with NBC/Peacock, so probably not. Saturday's game was originally scheduled for Fox but was changed at the last minute.

Streaming, as the alternative to cable/satellite, might have a far better reach. But does Peacock? YouTubeTV is my live television provider. It has CBSSN, ESPNU, and FS2. Is it not also streaming?

How many of those Peacock subscribers ALSO have a live television provider, whether cable, satellite, or streaming? ESPN+ has about 25 million subscribers. You wouldn't make the argument that OSU games moving from a channel easily found on a live TV platform to exclusively ESPN+ isn't relegation.

You can stream those too.

Streaming became popular to avoid bundling but if you are an OSU fan you are probably going to pay for Peacock this month to watch one thing and then also get a million things you'd never watch. This would be great if every content provider made their content available at a free market cost. But every Streaming service is going to pay through the nose for content for one exclusive rights monopoly and then bundle that with a bunch of crap and we'll end up even worse than before.

Stop with this ageism. I'm a grandpa and I cut the cord about a month ago. I've got Hulu now. I also watch FNC, as well as read the NYT and WSJ. Some of you guys are really into stereotypes.

I'll call you later on your landline.

Andrew, maybe it's just the strange way my mind works, but I actually find it much easier to find the program I want, or the game I want to watch, on Hulu with the Roku box than I ever did on Spectrum Cable. I'll admit that I have a hard time memorizing numbers, so I often could not remember which channel was associated with which four digit number. Spectrum did have a "favorites" feature, but it never worked reliably. With Hulu you just put your favorites in "My Stuff." But if you don't do that, it's still easy to find with a simple search. Also, you can record any show you want. I can record a show while sitting downstairs, and later watch it on my bedroom TV, by just going to "My Stuff." In short, this old fart is much happier with Hulu than I ever was with Spectrum Cable, and I'm paying about $100 total less each month!

Yes. I don't miss cable one bit. We have an antenna that feeds us 26 stations out of Columbus, including the "Big 6" Networks. That's more than enough "channels."
We stream what we want, and don't pay over $50 per month for the most part. On occasion - I'll have to sign up for a trial of a service to watch a game or two but generally what is on broadcast tv or radio is fine for me. With two kids and a spouse and a church and a job i don't really have that much time to sit in front of the tv and watch games.

There are still about 300,000 households in Ohio that can't get high-speed internet. True. This issue is supposed to be getting resolved. At this point, internet is pretty much an essential utility.
I'd also like to point out that Peacock's strategy for which games are on their streamer and which games are on NBC is whack and really, the B1G screwed their fans by signing on with so many networks that can force their diehards to have to have
a) a video service (cable or satellite)
AND
b) streaming apps.
Really, we're just add a weird inflection point where pay subscription services still exist and have lots of buying power while the nascient streamers are flexing their muscle. If you think football is bad, wait until basketball.

Who is resolving this? It's not like the cable companies are just gonna run random wiring everywhere just in case someone might want to sign up for their internet. I have family that lives in the middle of bumf*ck nowhere in Columbiana County and the only way they'd be able to get high speed internet is through satellite. They're at least 5 miles from the nearest cable subscriber, probably more. Nobody is running wiring out that far unless it's getting paid for, usually by the customer as a special fee.

I teach a class on Land Surveying at F.D.U.

One of the things I tell my students is not to get to hung up on the
latest and greatest technology.

At times we still have to use the North Star to establish "true North".

I still have a landline.

O.K. boomer, I know.

After Hurricane Sandy, the whole area where I live and work didn't
have power for over 2 weeks.

Virtually none of the cell towers around here have back up generators.
So, after less then 24 hours, their back up batteries died, and they were down, till power came back.

Same with FIOS.
Unless you had an external battery back up in your house, after 8 hours FIOS died.

The external Battery could only keep you phone working.
No other FIOS services.
And it needs to have its 12 "D" batteries replaced every 24 hours.

My old copper landline worked fine the whole time.

After Sandy ,Verizon forced me to get FIOS.

So I got the external battery pack, and keep a bunch of "D" batteries, just
in case.

After Sandy the only way to get internet of any kind was with
"dial up".

I do work with local OEM.

Every computer I have can be hooked up to an external dial up modem.
Still have them available in my home and office.

After Sandy, one of the O.E.M. guys I work with made a joke about
my "dial up" being so slow.

I asked how his high speed connection was working.

He said "good point".

That’s the argument for keeping AM radio in vehicles. While I agree with keeping AM tuners, that doesn’t mean there isn’t much better forms of media in 23.