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Daniel Frankel

Wait, vMVPDs Are Real, Profitable Businesses, After All?

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Each week, Next TV writers Daniel Frankel and David Bloom cancel plans for weddings, kidney dialysis, funerals and other important engagements to make time to write this column you said you so badly needed. You are welcome. 

DANIEL FRANKEL: Happy Easter weekend, Big D. So driving back from a spring break high-school baseball tournament Thursday down a stretch of the CA-15 Freeway in Poway (outside San Diego), otherwise known as the "Tony Gwynn Memorial Freeway," I thought about all the TV business activity that was happening on Opening Day of the 2024 Major League Baseball seasons. Hulu + Live TV added the MLB Network; Fubo licensed Yankees RSN YES; and the Colorado Rockies moved on from the defunct AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain by putting their fate in the hands of MLB, just the way the Padres and Diamondbacks did. A lot of sturm un drang for a sport barely anybody seems to watch. 

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