ESPN loses 621,000 subscribers last month alone
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Maybe if they actually wrote about sports instead of headlining stupid political shit they'd actually have people read their bullshit. Who the fuck goes to ESPN to read about the election and honestly who the fuck cares which players kneeled during the national anthem. I don't need 100 stories on the topic.
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How will those people find our which Kardashian was at the Knicks game last night?
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Anything besides live sports that bspn has done over the past 10 years has turned to shit.
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They lost 621,000 people that subscribed to a package that included ESPN. 0 of those people might have actually watched ESPN the month before.
The only thing that matters is ratings, which could be dropping too, but that isn't what's being talked about in the article. ESPN isn't selling spots to advertisers based on Grandma's cable subscription that happens to include ESPN, they sell it based on how many people actually watch their channel. -
And even their live sports have issues with the dreck of announcers on all sports networks.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:Anything besides live sports that bspn has done over the past 10 years has turned to shit.
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Not quite true...they get paid by the cable company per subscription:UWhuskytskeet said:They lost 621,000 people that subscribed to a package that included ESPN. 0 of those people might have actually watched ESPN the month before.
The only thing that matters is ratings, which could be dropping too, but that isn't what's being talked about in the article. ESPN isn't selling spots to advertisers based on Grandma's cable subscription that happens to include ESPN, they sell it based on how many people actually watch their channel.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
Long term ratings matter, but their $$ from cable companies is through subscribers, their money through advertisers is ratings. -
You're right, I did forget about that.HoustonHusky said:
Not quite true...they get paid by the cable company per subscription:UWhuskytskeet said:They lost 621,000 people that subscribed to a package that included ESPN. 0 of those people might have actually watched ESPN the month before.
The only thing that matters is ratings, which could be dropping too, but that isn't what's being talked about in the article. ESPN isn't selling spots to advertisers based on Grandma's cable subscription that happens to include ESPN, they sell it based on how many people actually watch their channel.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
Long term ratings matter, but their $$ from cable companies is through subscribers, their money through advertisers is ratings.
Fuck these TV contracts are really feeling like a house of cards. CFB could be majorly fucked in the near future. -
I'm just relieved no schools floated stadium bonds based on projected future revenues
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Helps Trump IMO
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Digital media disrupting the traditional cable business model is finally happening. Figuring out what's next for live sports in a world where "cord cutters" are becoming more and more common is the challenge for everybody involved.HoustonHusky said:
Not quite true...they get paid by the cable company per subscription:UWhuskytskeet said:They lost 621,000 people that subscribed to a package that included ESPN. 0 of those people might have actually watched ESPN the month before.
The only thing that matters is ratings, which could be dropping too, but that isn't what's being talked about in the article. ESPN isn't selling spots to advertisers based on Grandma's cable subscription that happens to include ESPN, they sell it based on how many people actually watch their channel.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
Long term ratings matter, but their $$ from cable companies is through subscribers, their money through advertisers is ratings.
We would have dropped our cable subscription by now if there was a good option for watching live sports on an a la carte basis.
I've got to guess that at some stage the bullshit bundling model will get broken. It will pretty much have to be.
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*breaking
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One possible reason: ref ball.
Was at a sports book watching all the games and at any given time half the screens were of officials explaining calls.
It's turning into cspan -
Good. It's a shit product.
It's like 50% sports and 50% political pieces to push some sort of agenda now. -
ESPN's product has been declining for a while. Too many women reporting on sports they clearly don't really know what they talking about.
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Fire_Marshall_Bill said:
Anything besides live sports that bspn has done over the past 10 years has turned to shit.
538 is damn good. A lot of the 30 for 30s are very good too. -
It will be interesting to see what happens when the "bubble bursts" (as the article puts it) and all these sports stations will be forced to go a la carte. Bundled cable packages tend to prop up niche stations, so I wouldn't be shocked if channels like the Pac-12 Network would go away entirely (which is probably a good thing - most of their programming is filler in my opinion) or exist in some scaled back web-only version.AIRWOLF said:Digital media disrupting the traditional cable business model is finally happening. Figuring out what's next for live sports in a world where "cord cutters" are becoming more and more common is the challenge for everybody involved.
We would have dropped our cable subscription by now if there was a good option for watching live sports on an a la carte basis.
I've got to guess that at some stage the bullshit bundling model will get broken. It will pretty much have to be. -
I wouldn't be surprised to see Disney come out with their own streaming service that they could offer post 2022 after the promise of not going over the top of the cable and satellite providers has no recourse if broken. That's what I would do if I were them.
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Comcast will just squeeze their data caps a little tighter if they smell more competition.salemcoog said:I wouldn't be surprised to see Disney come out with their own streaming service that they could offer post 2022 after the promise of not going over the top of the cable and satellite providers has no recourse if broken. That's what I would do if I were them.
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#stadiumdefault surging in early voting
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THISAIRWOLF said:
Digital media disrupting the traditional cable business model is finally happening. Figuring out what's next for live sports in a world where "cord cutters" are becoming more and more common is the challenge for everybody involved.HoustonHusky said:
Not quite true...they get paid by the cable company per subscription:UWhuskytskeet said:They lost 621,000 people that subscribed to a package that included ESPN. 0 of those people might have actually watched ESPN the month before.
The only thing that matters is ratings, which could be dropping too, but that isn't what's being talked about in the article. ESPN isn't selling spots to advertisers based on Grandma's cable subscription that happens to include ESPN, they sell it based on how many people actually watch their channel.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
Long term ratings matter, but their $$ from cable companies is through subscribers, their money through advertisers is ratings.
We would have dropped our cable subscription by now if there was a good option for watching live sports on an a la carte basis.
I've got to guess that at some stage the bullshit bundling model will get broken. It will pretty much have to be.
People are getting pissed at the cable monopolies and extortion pricing. ESPN is the most expensive (non-premium) channel for cable carriers by a pretty wide margin. So now in our family we split costs - one person subscribes to Direct TV and shares HBO/ESPN Direct PW w/everyone else, another subscribes to the digital version of the newspaper we all read and shares PW w/everyone else, someone else subscribes to Hulu, someone else subscribes to Netflix, etc.
The only thing I don't get through this system is the fucking Pac-12 Network, which is pretty much where #MyDeadDucks will be the rest of the season.
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This thread needs more Bleenor, cable contract superiority guy.
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Lot of poor folks out there
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This.bananasnblondes said:How will those people find our which Kardashian was at the Knicks game last night?
And which morbidly obese, dog faced pregnant chick that looks like she just rolled out of the rack would tell them?
Oh, that's right - the bi-cultural hipster fag ($75K) in the 3 piece suit standing across their awesome new stage from her.
FYFMFE
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RaceBannon said:
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Okay. Five 30 For 30s per year and whatever 538 is. Most of it is inwatchable.TTJ said:Fire_Marshall_Bill said:Anything besides live sports that bspn has done over the past 10 years has turned to shit.
538 is damn good. A lot of the 30 for 30s are very good too. -
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espn loses their highest number of subscribers in a month
hh.com has their highest traffic ever
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If Pat Haden is a merciful god, he'll see to it that the Comcasts and Time Warners of this world will be next to collapse.UWhuskytskeet said:Comcast will just squeeze their data caps a little tighter if they smell more competition.
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Comcast isn't the only broadband provider in town and tech improvements should make it where more Content can stream through the same pipe than today.UWhuskytskeet said:
Comcast will just squeeze their data caps a little tighter if they smell more competition.salemcoog said:I wouldn't be surprised to see Disney come out with their own streaming service that they could offer post 2022 after the promise of not going over the top of the cable and satellite providers has no recourse if broken. That's what I would do if I were them.
Cept in Friday Harbor, of course...
Theyre fucked.
