<i>The NFL has 15-16 games per week. Of those, 4 or 5 are on the local broadcast (three or four on CBS and FOX, one on NBC in the evening). If you want to access the other 11 games, you&#x27;re reliant on cable-based access.</i><p>True, but you still have to pay the Sunday Ticket Premium of 300.00 or whatever it is now for the year. DirecTv paid 12b for it last time the contract was up, and my guess is they don&#x27;t fully recoup in that in the Premium (part of the value is that it&#x27;s DirecTv exlcusive). Whether the NFL can make as much selling the package (or a different one) a la carte is impossible to say.<p><i>Fox Sports is not fledgling. They&#x27;ve been number 2 to ESPN for most of their history, and a huge number of NBA and MLB games are broadcast on Fox Sports.</i><p>Fox Sports (and FSN aren&#x27;t) but FS1, the non regional Fox network with the highest subscriber fee, is.<p>But I think I agree with you on a broad level that the sports other than football are going to have to rebuild their revenue structures (probably via direct access streaming) before the cable complex completely collapses. Football is largely, but not completeley insulated.