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Some good sports TV news: ESPN is losing subscribers
Posted on 10/11/14 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 10/11/14 at 9:44 pm
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Most of the biggest channels have lost between three million and five million subscribers since 2010. The two most expensive channels, which feature marquee sports events—Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and Time Warner Inc.’s TNT—have been the hardest hit, with subscriber drops of nearly 5%. ESPN this year is expected to receive average monthly fees of $6.04 per subscriber, while TNT will receive $1.44, according to SNL Kagan.
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Nielsen says the subscriber declines are a real phenomenon.
Screw ESPN
This post was edited on 10/11/14 at 9:45 pm
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Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:02 pm to weagle99
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ESPN this year is expected to receive average monthly fees of $6.04 per subscriber
good lord
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:16 pm to weagle99
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average monthly fees of $6.04 per subscriber
Greedy bastards.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:18 pm to weagle99
Ok 
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:26 pm to weagle99
Without sports, most people wouldn't even have cable. It's a complete joke how expensive it is today with the internet being as powerful as it is.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:35 pm to weagle99
You clowns really think it's good for Disney to lose viewers?
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:36 pm to sms151t
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You clowns really think it's good for Disney to lose viewers?
I think ESPN has too much influence over college sports.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:38 pm to weagle99
when ESPN fails, big time sports will go PPV
Posted on 10/11/14 at 10:40 pm to weagle99
Seems like ESPN is included in any TV package. This stat must include all ESPN peripheral services (News, U, Classics, etc.), which, doesn't really affect the brand, imo.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 11:13 pm to weagle99
Karma. This is what happens when you try to make the news instead of report the news. I am still waiting on the apology & retraction for the 72 hour straight breaking news reporting in 2012 of the Mickey Loomis "wiretapping" allegations...............We are waiting ESPN...................Hello????
Posted on 10/11/14 at 11:23 pm to DrSteveBrule
The only reason I still have cable is because it would cost me roughly $300 to cancel my DirecTV contract. As soon as it's up, I am getting rid of it. I can watch live streams of my sports.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 12:03 am to USAF Hart
I cut the cord. Happy as hell
Posted on 10/12/14 at 12:05 am to weagle99
at people thinking this is good news.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 12:23 am to Broski
Well it isn't bad news for people like myself who haven't had cable in 3 years.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 3:07 am to Kafka
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when ESPN fails, big time sports will go PPV
Incorrect. Fox Sports and NBC Sports are waiting in the wings for those contracts to come due - with the subscriber rate falling that means the other two will have a little leverage against ESPN. I honestly try to limit the amount of time I watch them or use the espn3.com website - I definitely don't just put Sportscenter on as background noise or anything, which I'm sure is what accounts for a lot of SC's ratings.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 10:51 am to TruckerDude
A lot of the subscribers espn is losing are probably cutting cable in general, being as how we dont have a la carte yet
Posted on 10/12/14 at 3:33 pm to chalmetteowl
In reading the book "Inside ESPN", the tell all book bout how ESPN got started, it's amazing now to think that in its beginning, it had to pay the cable operators around the county to include it in their programing. Now it basically runs sports, college & pros especially & has so far been able to demand/get its fees as its suits deem necessary to its bottom line. It may not be good for sports, big picture, but it is nice to hear that Karma can still come into play occasionally.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 3:43 pm to TruckerDude
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Incorrect. Fox Sports and NBC Sports are waiting in the wings for those contracts to come due - with the subscriber rate falling that means the other two will have a little leverage against ESPN
Yup - and to add to this: ESPN has gotten way too much into the editorial and away from the reporting that they used to do. People are tuning out because they don't want to be pitched the same freakin' narrative all day long. The product has declined, and has been in decline for about 7-8 years.
Need less: discussion about Roger Goodell / Ray Rice / BCS Sucks lets replace it with another flawed system / Redskins name
Them having less viewership is good for Fox and NBC; it's a zero-sum game.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 3:49 pm to weagle99
They need a changover in on air personalities.
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