re: Sling TV Releases Sports Package - $5 Per Month

To put it in perspective, ESPN's highest viewership ever was for the CFB Playoff title game. That had 27 million viewers.

To make the math easy, let's say they get an even $5 per month and have 100 million subs via cable.

That's $500 million gross each month.

To get to that number w/just 27 million subs they would have to charge about $18.50 a month.

However, they would NOT have 27 million subs a la carte. That number would likely be cut in half at best for the average during the year. That means you'll be paying more like $36 per month.

Also, b/c the sus would fluctuate during the year depending on the sports they would more than likely charge even more than that just to make sure their quarterly profits stay somewhat consistent. So to make up for parts of the year when subs would drop off a cliff it would go even higher to something like $50 a month.

That's JUST for ESPN alone. That does not take into account channels like ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 streaming, or the SECN. All of those would end up being around $15 to $20 minimum a month.

So if you want those 5 (w/o ESPNews which is starting to air more CFB games) you are easily going to end up paying over $100 a month just for the ESPN networks.