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ESPN and others are going down as people no longer see the worth in spending $100+/month to maintain a full cable subscription. It gets worse when self important sports "personalities" decide to make it political.
"...survey indicating that 56% of consumers would ditch ESPN completely if it meant saving the estimated $8 per month the channel costs each subscriber.
But when cable providers have tried to remove ESPN from core channel bundles, they've faced lawsuits from the "worldwide leader in sports," which apparently believes it will get to milk the existing bloated bundle cableTV cash cow indefinitely...."
I watch FOX when I'm taking a break from living my own life.
If you maintain that cable or satellite TV subscription, ESPN is still getting $8/month from you whether you watch it or not. And some of that money is ended up in the pockets of the multimillionaire asses bending knees on the playing field.
You have no choice in the matter because the cable company won't let you drop it.
If you maintain that cable or satellite TV subscription, ESPN is still getting $8/month from you whether you watch it or not. And some of that money is ended up in the pockets of the multimillionaire asses bending knees on the playing field.
You have no choice in the matter because the cable company won't let you drop it.
True, but by not watching ESPN, we still hurt their bottom line as ad revenue decreases due to a decrease in viewers.
If you maintain that cable or satellite TV subscription, ESPN is still getting $8/month from you whether you watch it or not. And some of that money is ended up in the pockets of the multimillionaire asses bending knees on the playing field.
You have no choice in the matter because the cable company won't let you drop it.
Except the $8 becomes $6 when their ratings fall, as the cable providers bargain the ESPN rates down. Whether they drop the end user cost or not, that $2 = thousands of ESPN layoffs to come.
All corps eventually die. ESPN is expediting their own demise. Massive waves of layoffs already.
In theory: Bundles work for a reason. I pay for what I want to watch, you pay for what you want to watch, and we both have more access than otherwise.
In practice: between the bundle as a whole getting so expensive (part of which is driven by the sports fees) and online alternatives (streaming services, non-TV-internet) getting so much better a lot of people including myself just don't buy in at all.
Cable companies need to tighten up on costs, pass that on to the consumer, and offer a good streaming site for their IP to their customers as part of the package or they are going to continue to see their subscriber base crumble. HBO GO/Now is the future. If the cable companies don't push a single unified and well designed platform the content creators eventually will without them.
I cancelled my cable subscription. Not about money, Everything became politicized.
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