Politics has very little to do with this

It's cord cutting and changing demographics

Young people don't pay for cable

Even younger people consume nearly all
Media via youtube

3 ...

Report Post

Posted by Chad504boy

4 posts

Member since Feb 2005

167137 posts

Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:49 am to rocket31

NFL "we're quietly working on dumping ESPN"

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by League Champs

Bayou Self

Member since Oct 2012

10340 posts

Posted on 10/31/17 at 10:13 am to rocket31

quote:
Politics has very little to do with this

Politics has everything to do with it

You must have missed the part where ESPN is losing 15,000 subscribers a day during October. Why the acceleration during football season?

And most NFL games are on broadcast TV, so cord cutting should have no effect on their ratings, tickets, merchandise

But its like my momma always said, be careful what you wish for. ESPN put Kaep front and center. Now they no longer even want to show the pledge, and they will soon dump the programming they used to feature Kaep (and friends) antics

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by lionward2014

New Orleans

Member since Jul 2015

11789 posts

Posted on 10/31/17 at 11:04 am to rocket31

quote:
It's cord cutting and changing demographics

I have one TV with an antenna, everything else is streamed (watchESPN, Sling, NBC app, CBS all-access). Sometimes I have up to 4 games on on a Saturday, but the only one that counts is the antenna one as far as ratings go. Until ESPN, FS1, Bein, etc. figure out to account for streams, they are going to keep losing money and ratings.

This is all moot because pretty soon Amazon or Twitter or Netflix will buy the rights to broadcast and it will be all over for ESPN.

1 ...

Report Post

More Sports - Replies to Post

Return To Board

Page 1

Return To Board