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

no, I said ESPN by itself would be a minimum of $35ish w/a more likely price of around $50. To get ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, and SECN it would be around $100+.

There is no way for ESPN to sell their channel for a simple $10 a month in an a la carte world b/c there is no way they would ever get anywhere near 100 million subscribers. Sports programing, while popular, is not as popular as people here seem to think. Again, their highest viewership ever was 27 million tvs. Their highest average viewership for anything they air is Monday Night Football at around 13 million.

ESPN would have to charge a larger price b/c they have deals with all the various sports content providers. They can't just tell the somebody like the NBA "Oopsie, everything is a la carte now so we aren't going to pay you the money from that billion dollar deal we just inked."