Whenever people talk about the money in college football right now, I generally tell them to blame Tivo (and subsequently Netflix). Tivo started it with the ability to record and watch later while fast forwarding through commercials. Netflix with it&#x27;s mountains of commercial free content followed next.<p>That put a huge advertising premium on content that people NEED to watch live like sports or hit shows like Walking Dead that have community reactions as episodes air.<p>The reality for cord cutters and cable companies alike is that, if it weren&#x27;t for ESPN I&#x27;d have no reason to have cable. It&#x27;s the only reason I have a pay TV package.<p>When you break down the technology, that won&#x27;t change anytime soon either.<p>With Netflix or other streaming services 50,000 TVs is 50,000 individual streaming sessions. With a broadcast 50,000 people watching the same thing is 1 broadcast. It&#x27;s just a question of scalability that gets complicated if millions of people all want to watch the same thing at the exact same time.