ESPN already has a streaming app. People don’t want to watch their 20 shows arguing about whether LeBron is better than Jordan.

@mosessupposes2571

Ай бұрын

Well said

@libertarian787

Ай бұрын

When the app actually works which is rare

@richj011

Ай бұрын

Woke political charged views ah no thank you

@gustavojuarez2862

Ай бұрын

App is a pain to use too, got it for La Liga matches ⚽️

@biscaynesupercars

Ай бұрын

Thats literally been espn’s main topic for almost 2 decades. A lot of media people owe their career to Lebron

How many of these "viewers" r just restaurants/Gyms putting on ESPN across all the TVs they have until they close for the day?

@andrewe.7907

Ай бұрын

You forgot the break rooms / kitchens in office buildings.... When I go grab a La Croix guess what's on in the background w/ sound down..

@jayjya

Ай бұрын

You clearly don’t know how they calculate viewership

@user-qr7ee2cp4y

Ай бұрын

My wife and I watch a hockey game almost every night through espn +

@Arigator2

Ай бұрын

If you like women's basketball then ESPN is for you.

@dakf660

Ай бұрын

@@jayjyayou don’t know either

Karma at its finest: espn is less profitable because people are leaving cable due to rising prices caused by Espn asking cable companies for more money.

@tedg1609

Ай бұрын

Disney is the worst.

@sakenu16

Ай бұрын

Remember when sports used to be free on national tv. Then came fees for cable and then ads on cable and they kept getting greedy. No one feels bad. Without all that you don’t have these exaggerated sports contracts.

@osis254318686

Ай бұрын

And what’s one reason ESPN asks for more money? If you don’t know the answer to that then bringing up your initial comment is pretty dumb. Spoiler alert, leagues like NBA are asking for more money.

@genito1

Ай бұрын

@@osis254318686 nah, every business has overhead costs. Should we also give them a pass due to inflation, wage increase etc.? It is not the consumer's responsibility to make sure espn keeps their cost of doing business low. Instead of increasing prices companies can innovate and become more lean. Simply passing cost to customers is the lazy and easy thing to do. If they keep on jacking up prices (irrespective of the reason for doing it) consumers will continue to leave cable which means less money for ESPN as currently constructed.

There's no way that people want "packaged" channels when most of them are terrible. The audience realizes that advertised television should pay for itself. These companies should compete for audiences by making a better product.

@SLSMe

Ай бұрын

Bingo

@QuentinDude

29 күн бұрын

yep...why-do-i-want-to-pay-for-stations-that-show-Infomercials-or-trying-to-sell-junk(Home-Shopping-Networks)-or-reruns-of-old-ass-shows-you-can-watch-online-for-free...Too-many-commercials-of-organizations-begging-for-money-too

The fact that you pay for ESPN on the go but cannot access all of live games on ABC or ESPN is just ridiculous and that factors in as to why their revenue continues to drop.

Just let me pick ten cable channels for $15

@mirzaahmed6589

Ай бұрын

How? If ESPN alone charges $10, the other channels you'll get will be trash.

@romello4913

Ай бұрын

I swear bro

@jkacvbhijfn

Ай бұрын

lol I’m all for cheaper cable packages too but $15? You want them to come wash your car on the weekends too?

@Shanes_Lanes

Ай бұрын

@@jkacvbhijfn lol, it’s just the start of a negotiation

@thereandbackagainhv

Ай бұрын

@@jkacvbhijfnwhen you pay upwards of $75 - 100 a month for the full package of 400 channels why isn’t $15 for 3 you like feasible?

Cable is fading because every channel is repetitive. Espn talks about the cowboys and lakers over and over, the news channels talk about trump over and over

@sp123

Ай бұрын

they have to talk about the same things because they get the most ratings and more ratings means more advertisement dollars.

@mindovomatter5181

Ай бұрын

Or it's politics and DEI hires that don't know crap about the sport. Instead they use the time to talk about how much of a victim they are.

it's pretty wild to think how normal it was for generations to pay a high monthly fee for a content service that was like 30% advertising

@MinifigNewsguy

Ай бұрын

It only got bad in the early 1990s with various de/regulation to the cable industry 1970s and the 80s the cable networks relied on advertising. They couldn’t survive hence why they did affiliate/subscriber fees.

@pickyourbrainswithbenjamin761

Ай бұрын

Ha ha good point cable could get away with that for years before us millinials grew up

@jakeconnell6290

Ай бұрын

You speak on scams this is one of the biggest running ones

@Slick1020

Ай бұрын

Streaming has ads too now 🤡.

@adr3naline23

Ай бұрын

I can’t watch ESPN now it’s mostly adds

The reason why viewers went up overall for Monday Night Football this most recent season is because they put it back on regular ABC.

@seminoldschool7032

Ай бұрын

💯 THAT☝🏼🎯✅

One thing about ESPN that really rubs me the wrong way is the push for betting. Launching ESPN Bet shows they're trying to deepen their pockets and now are having showing with betting "experts" who in reality we have no idea what they're being told to say behind the scene.

@BaronRosa

Ай бұрын

Someone hasn’t hit a fat 10 leg parlay for big

@jamisonmunn9215

Ай бұрын

The betting advertisers paid big money and while ESPN was dropping so of course they take the money.

@louiemurphy

Ай бұрын

@@jamisonmunn9215 I agree from a business standpoint I just hate how everywhere you look gambling is being pushed down our throats. I saw a billboard the other day for fanatics sports book. I wish there was advertising rules like smoking.

@unconventionalideas5683

Ай бұрын

@@louiemurphy I hate that. I think the whole thing should be banned again.

Remember when all these sports used to be on national tv and we didn’t have to pay cable subscription. Cable was meant to have no ads hence the fees, then they all got greedy with ads + fees. Don’t feel bad for them for losing money now. After all these sports owners now doing these exaggerated contracts on players, getting tax money to build their stadium palaces, etc. Many people were paying for services they didn’t care much.

@vlverm7096

Ай бұрын

Just make the average consumer pay to fatten their pockets. They are worse than the government.

The constant debate shows/formats are killing ESPN

@marcelohendrix6139

Ай бұрын

those shows get the most ratings

@andrem.thomas332

Ай бұрын

@@marcelohendrix6139 You're right.

I cut cable a year ago. One of the best things I've done. Sports leagues and networks fail to look out for the actual consumer.

@sakenu16

Ай бұрын

And they got super greedy!

People like cable, but it’s just too expensive. Can we get cable for $60 a month. No surprises or “promotions” when your bill jumps up to $150

@pcappabianca83

Ай бұрын

Nobody I know likes the cable monopoly. FTC should’ve broken it up years ago. Technology changes doing what regulators wouldn’t is a good thing.

I remember growing up I’d watch sportcenter 2-3 times in the morning, most the sport shows after school , and then before I went to sleep

In Germany, a sports streaming service has "disrupted" the Sports TV Business model maybe 7 years ago already. It hasn't destroyed the legacy broadcaster, and it's still bleeding money left and right, while still not offering the same quality. Live sports is just better suited for TV than for streaming, both for technical and economical reasons.

@ravivaithinathan1222

Ай бұрын

Maybe but as you get the KZread or Amazon apps on newer tvs, you’ll see more people changing over to watch on those…. As long as KZread and Amazon can finally get the quality of broadcasting for sports as ESPN had.

@santostv.

Ай бұрын

eleven sports now owned by dazn broke the monopoly of sport tv my country premium sports channel owned by every major telecommunication company (meo,nos,vodafone), still sport tv app and website require aa cable subscription meanwhile eleven doesn´t neither eurosports (they aren´t a premium channel but still) Shh also don´t tell them about pirates🤣

I'm glad that I cut cable.

@ShidaiTaino

Ай бұрын

There was nothing on worth watching

@normp3273

Ай бұрын

I cut the cord almost 15 years ago. Haven't looked back

@vsznry

Ай бұрын

But now that ad model is coming to streaming... lololol

@bradthehighwayman9956

Ай бұрын

@@ShidaiTainoyeah there was

@skysimba8953

Ай бұрын

​@@normp3273Last had cable in 2011. What a colossal waste of money.

What I see is that people are gonna be required to pay for so many different subscriptions that consumers will be right back at the same issues with having cable of paying too much lol. And it will be even more complicated because you have to manage all the different subscriptions and even viewership will go down because people are gonna have to make sacrifices on which subscription they can afford and makes sense to them

@trance9158

Ай бұрын

That's already a problem

@JacksonMack3742

Ай бұрын

Exactly. Even now I just like to watch football games. Some are on NBC, CBS, Fox, or ABC and ESPN but now the NBC games are also on Peacock AND the Thursday night game is EXCLUSIVE to prime video. So for the NFL you already have to pay for regular channels PLUS another service.. And future games will be sold to the highest bidder and soon it could require 3 to 4 or more separate subscriptions just to watch your team play every game in a season.. But NFL offers season ticket and you can pay a flat fee (a few hundred dollars) and watch every single game BUT this secondary option wont be available for many or all other entertainment/media for a long time. Wish you just picked what you wanted and only paid for that, but I might just get season ticket and accept missing some other stuff.

@derrickmadsen7716

Ай бұрын

I completely agree with you but stagnating what you purchase or rent I should say is much better than cable. We rented Netflix for 3 months and knocked out all of the big money series. Unsubscribe from Netflix and watched band of Brothers on max. Ect. The point is nobody should be having 15 different subscriptions going at the same time if you are a generally busy adult. Just subscribe to the things you're watching actively and unsubscribe from the ones that you don't. The issue that was sports is that it's a lot more fluid and depending on how they package it it could not work for sports in that regard

@jakeconnell6290

Ай бұрын

And it drives people back to free live streams

@arthursese6068

Ай бұрын

@@derrickmadsen7716I guarantee streaming services will institute some type service activation fee to eliminate “churn” as they call it.

I know of 4 people who worked at ESPN as behind the scenes staff and nobody had a good thing to say about working there except for the cafeteria that saw a significant upgrade when Disney bought the company.

@jakeconnell6290

Ай бұрын

Go woke Disney are going broke

@lexa_power

Ай бұрын

Can confirm, the cafeteria was the best part of working there

@ocampbell1954

Ай бұрын

​@@jakeconnell6290Wokeness has nothing to do with shyt. Fox News and other conservative networks are suffering the same fate.

@socalgolf9978

Ай бұрын

That can be most companies , nobody likes their employers

@jasonector1163

Ай бұрын

Flick is company ? Always been quality

This was a damn good segment. Great insight.

One of the reasons why Sports Center is doing worse is because they've changed it too much from what the original viewers enjoyed, and that was being able to see highlights from all teams in all sports, instead they just now focus on major markets like Boston, NY, LA, Dallas, etc.

@kevinb6745

Ай бұрын

Yea I got tired of listening to them whine abt the Cowboys losing. Been going downhill ever since the homie Stu Scott died smh

@David-si8vq

Ай бұрын

This. There is a three team juggernaut in the NBA Northwest division and the only team they focus on is Denver. Or the Lakers-Warriors race to tenth place.

@ravivaithinathan1222

Ай бұрын

Don’t forget now Kansas City Chiefs… (my point is if you have a current dynasty, they will be included).

@gorillashop337

Ай бұрын

ESPN is a sinking ship

@seminoldschool7032

Ай бұрын

…you mean actually covering SPORTS?? lol how crazy is it that covering sports is pretty much the only thing espn DOESN’T do🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Here's the deal. I cut the cord because I was sick of paying over $100 a month and not watching anything on 85% of the channels. Give me a deal for $30 a month with all of the ESPN channels and whatever regional sport networks are left so that I can watch games and that's it. No Lifetime. No Hallmark. No CNN or Fox News. No Disney or Nickelodeon. None of the garbage I don't want. If you choose to throw in local channels, cool. Otherwise, I have an antenna.

@josephanthony1933

Ай бұрын

Get sling orange.

I'm absolutely SHOCKED how slowly these big companies are to adapt to the modern world. Netflix was streaming since 2007, and making some of the best shows and movies in recent history since 2010. Meanwhile, it took Apple all the way in 2015 to pull HBO out of their cable-only mode to allow you to subscribe without cable (WTF?). Or how it took until the pandemic for most media conglomerates to launch their own services. Now they finally noticed the decades-long trend and don't know what to do. Comes to show that CEOs and corporate leaders are just as dumb as the rest of us, they're just confident enough to pretend they know what they're doing.

CNBC makes excellent productions. Keep it going, please!

This was such a good doc. Really showing you the history of ESPN and how times are changing for a old company in USA media. Really enjoyed it, I always wished when I was a teen to work at ESPN

"World wide leader" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Many people saw things clearly more than a decade ago, paying for rising cable bills but also getting nothing to show for it

The NBA is struggling with cord cutters too. The vast majority of NBA games require a cable subscription and the percentage of men under 35 who subscribe to cable TV is somewhere around 25%. How do you grow you fanbase when kids lack access to games?

@otaviofrn_adv

Ай бұрын

this is something that all leagues except the NFL will struggle for a while, the whole RSN scenario. I wanna see how this will end.

ESPN commentators are unbearable

@iwatchmostlymathvideos7892

Ай бұрын

no u

@stephenheath8465

Ай бұрын

Once Stuart Scott pass away, that was it for them and SAS was just too much for my liking,but it seems like he moving on to the podcast world

@mosessupposes2571

Ай бұрын

Bunch of screeching drama queens and they have the nerve to call it debate

@shipo2727

Ай бұрын

For real...

@darwinwins

Ай бұрын

like, "WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?!" i hate it.

99% of people watch ESPN just for sports. All these highlight, people can watch on KZread for free. People don't care about their stupid politics.

Screw ESPN. I'm so, so , so, SO happy that Apple (unlike ESPN) saw value in American soccer and has MLS exclusively on Apple TV. It's awesome.

They are NOT going to Survive The Decimation Of Cable TV. Period.

@evanmurphey

Ай бұрын

They have ESPN app big dawg, they’re not going anywhere. Plus they get a bunch of money from the NFL combine each year. They have to much money

@tupactargaryen

Ай бұрын

As long as people want to watch sports(and clearly they do according to the ratings) then espn will be fine. Create their own streaming platform, plus advertising dollars should be more than enough to keep the party going. The only threat I see is from the big tech companies if they decide they want to takeover sports, then it’s a rap for espn, they don’t have the money to compete with Apple, google, Amazon has.

@geofflepper3207

Ай бұрын

​@@evanmurphey One article on the decline of cable TV said that Fox set up a subscriber online Fox app and made only about 1% of the revenue they make now from their channel on cable TV. ESPN had better do a lot better than that if it wants to survive.

@fsshue8657

Ай бұрын

@@tupactargaryenit will be interesting… will cord cutters be willing to pay $40+ monthly for the espn/fox/turner streaming service? On the other end, has “cord cutting” reached its peak so we should expect around 60M cable TV subscribers (not dropping further down) after a peak of 100M+ several years ago? To be honest, I think it’s more likely both will be “no” which is bad for ESPN. ESPN+ hasn’t been a failure at 25M subscribers but the growth rate has flattened since early 2022… if nothing was done, it would peak at 30M.

@JAM_2024

Ай бұрын

​@@tupactargaryenyounger generation probably won't have much patience to sit through all the bloody commercials. NFL and NBA games are full of commercials

I still don't understand why ESPN and these networks feel the need to pay what they do for on air talent.

@seminoldschool7032

Ай бұрын

They have “talent”?? Well why the hell doesnt espn put any of THOSE people in their shows?!

ESPN will now aggressively go into streaming. The reason why it's now possible: the majority of Americans now have access to faster than 100 megabits/second Internet access by cable, fiber optic, 5G fixed station cellular and now StarLink satellite. In fact, scripted programming will likely go all streaming, with only sports and news staying on linear cable.

@mirzaahmed6589

Ай бұрын

You don't need 100 MBPS. Literally one-tenth of that is enough. I had 20 MBPS Verizon FIOS in 2008, and it was more than enough to stream anything I wanted.

@Sacto1654

Ай бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 I'd almost agree, but you want 100 mbps if multiple people are streaming at the same time.

"Streaming services have overloaded consumers with content." Very true

@elYoko337

Ай бұрын

Says the people trying to control the content.

Cord cutting has steadily become more expensive over the years. Many Cable companies took note and yearly raised the price of internet-only. Everyone and their mother has a streaming app to download nowadays. By the time you get the channels you want, plus Internet access, plus other fees you might as well go back to the cable bundle that includes cell phones.

The Disney ESPN mafia, by its greed has just destroyed College Football.

@danamoore793

Ай бұрын

How??

@thedarknate0845

Ай бұрын

​@@danamoore793by paying the players and giving them the power they have now

@michaelr3583

Ай бұрын

​@@thedarknate0845i dont enjoy the game any less knowing the athletes can take care of their families, but i have a heart

@thedarknate0845

Ай бұрын

@@michaelr3583 so it will be ok if your team spends a lot to recruit a player and he only stays for one season? These are kids and they should be thinking about their education that they get for playing sports

@michaelr3583

Ай бұрын

@@thedarknate0845 then the college should make them sign contracts and pay the kids themselves. Thats the point of a contract, you sign it and you're stuck

Of course linear ratings are up for Sports...because the primary cable cutters are non-sports fans...that means a higher percentage of linear subscribers are sports fans. Higher ratings of a small pie is Pyrrhic Victory. ESPN is a victim of its own success - charging more per subscriber ultimately drove the boom of cord cutting.

@cephalopods

Ай бұрын

It's because Neilsen started finally measuring out-of-home viewing in 2020 which has really boosted Super Bowl/NFL numbers.

I suppose it doesn’t really matter if ESPN survives. The only thing they show anymore that people really care about is college football. And college hoops. As long as someone buys the rights to show that why does it matter?

Next: How will CNBC survive the streaming wars.

@undercover656

Ай бұрын

😂

Cables still alive, just not cable companies… The antenna has significantly improved over the last 5-10 yrs. Ppl have had cable without a subscription for long now.

Content is king 🤴

Would love to watch a sports event with no commentary at all. 😊

ESPN didn't 'charge' cable companies for the right to include their bundle in their channel lineup, they flat out extorted them to include them and raised the prices exhorbitantly every year. I honestly can't think of a company that I would take greater joy in seeing flame out completely than ESPN and actually it could take Disney with it also.

Streaming is Cable 2.0

@laverdadescatolica5

Ай бұрын

KZread is better than streaming. Streaming is broadcast television levels of cringe.

Their F1 coverage is half assed to say the least.

@f_pie

Ай бұрын

ESPN just sucks

@briantep458

Ай бұрын

think they would rather show you the WNBA vs F1

@zackkotzias3304

Ай бұрын

They just syndicate the sky sports broadcast onto espn

@trance9158

Ай бұрын

@@zackkotzias3304 I know.. and it's always cut short.

@RandomRay1

Ай бұрын

Everything outside of American football and basketball is usually half-a***

I watched Sportscenter multiple times per day up until about 20 years ago. I stopped almost cold turkey when they went from a basically sports news program to something where the anchors were all debuting material for the opening slot at the Chuckle Shack. Hard pass.

I feel like laura rutledge and the asian chick are the only thing keeping espn alive

The problem with sports on cable TV is how Comcast and the like charge you "regional sports fees". I am in Florida and don't care for the Marlins or Panthers, but I cannot opt out. ESPN+ is just BS, if they price the trio or ESPN right I might switch to them but its has to be a lot cheaper than Sling. If the Sling with sports is the same price, I go with Sling.

@mr.perksy

Ай бұрын

Another issue with baseball for example if you do not have cable and you get the MLB package they blackout the games in your market. So it forces you to get cable.

It’s not the cord cutters, it’s the politics, and sports in general. The NBA is a joke, and ESPN going all in on it

Damn near as many ads for this 20 minute report as cable TV.😂

I'm happy, ESPN got greedy. They deserve what's coming to them..

Whatever company invents a pick system for the channels you want would be successful.

You forgot the kid-centric alternative broadcasts?

I always loved ESPN because that is where I mostly watched college football,basketball,baseball and others.

Funny how they had to blur the monitors.

Cannot believe STTDB cleared production on this video 😂

If it remains a part of the Disney bundle, I might keep it. If not, I don't need ESPN that much. I can get my sports news from KZread.

KZread TV is something that more networks should embrace

Excellent report CNBC.

You just need internet and you can stream everything

When I got rid of cable and just kept internet, my bill went from over $200 to $80 a month. I’m never going back to cable. I’ll continue to find sites where I can stream for free thanks 😊

The problem with ESPN is that they're a money pit they don't own any content you have to spend billions of dollars on sports rights

IF THEY FIRE MOLLY ILL PAY FOR ESPN

For someone like me who grew up outside the USA, the US version of ESPN has always been useless. Give me the option to watch cricket, snooker, and badminton, and I will subscribe to their streaming services.

Great piece..

I have cable, I Love sports but took the package that does not include ESPN. ESPN, like Sports Illustrated, hasn't been good in decades. I hope it goes bankrupt.

I cut the cord 21 years ago. About 10 years ago I subscribed to Netflix And that's more than enough entertainment besides some good KZread videos I'll tune into antenna TV for sports when it's a game of interested in watching... Actually I enjoy watching 15 to 20 minute highlights of most games on KZread... That works for me. Saves me a lot of money and time

I want be surprised KZread start charging to watch sport highlights lol

@Rayzajw

Ай бұрын

They do already. It's called advertisements

Any time i turn on espn i turn the channel 3 seconds later.

ESPN should do for sports what Valve did for gaming. Valve doesn't really make games anymore, what they mostly do is be the hub that everyone uses to play other peoples' games. Stop paying NFL for exclusive rights, and instead get everyone else that is paying NFL to put their content on your website.

@gasoline3597

Ай бұрын

Dont KZread already do that?? I mean technically, that's what networks do now. you can catch up with all of sports content on YT

My least favorite product parties up with my last favorite motivation: late stage capitalism and profit margins

I rarely watch ESPN…plus I don’t like how they mainly promote the SEC and destroy the smaller conferences.

@alexcuevas5633

Ай бұрын

I know. The SEC is repulsive and idc if they are "good". They're only good at football. They're coming for the ACC next :/

@maxmeyers5630

21 сағат бұрын

SEC also dominates college baseball (currently 4 teams in top 5), gymnastics, track amd field, and x-country.

Those darn cordcutters!!!!!!!!!!! How dare they want to save money!!!!!!

I used to have morning ESPN sportscenter on my television non stop , for many years . I haven’t watch a second of ESPN since we got rid of cable, 4 or 5 years ago.

Livestream but with Ad-Revenue

Disney, as with everything they touch, ruined ESPN in 2018 after horizontally acquiring their competition, 20th Century Fox, the former owners of ESPN.

Why pay for live sports when Streameast exists?

@MrJulesisreal

Ай бұрын

Sometimes it lags though 💀

CNBC: excellent story. Enjoyed it very much from all aspects of the sports business.

I feel like this was an Ad for ESPN. Letting us know that yet another ESPN app will be releasing soon.

Young men watch ESPN and old ladies pay for it. Old ladies don't buy streaming services to watch on their smart phones. Young men are horrible at maintaining subscriptions. Young men are more about the old bootleg. ESPN is killing the golden goose.

Most of ESPN programming is just people talking.

ESPN manipulated the CFP to put 1-loss Alabama in over undefeated FSU. They've jumped the shark.

Personally they should open up to international subscribers.

Its amazing what has happened to ESPN. Use to reign supreme.

Ill just watch the highlights on KZread... major events can be streamed online.

I paid for ESPN for months and got nothing useful from it. Paying for ESPN is like throwing money in the trash.

Over my many years as an professional sports fan the time I spend watching sports has shrunk year over year. I basically only watch the KZread 10 minute game review on the NFL. After doing that for a while I enjoyed the lack of commercials and maximization of my personal time. The only live sports I now watch is the one where I do not have an alternative.

If they could somehow centralize a lot of sports in a new streaming service that would be amazing. Getting something like KZread TV is not great, you get some sports but then there are a lot of exclusive games and tournaments.

This video is basically a PR production for ESPN it seems. 🤷‍♂️

Great video!

Typically I pay $29.99 to watch ESPN. I don't own a subscription, that's just my gym membership. Some weeks I'm paying hundreds when I fly and on top of that another $50 to view it from an airport bar.

We were all sick of getting $150+ cable bills but now the streamers quietly jack their rates eventually we will find something new that is cheaper. You would think the more customers you get the cheaper it would stay but they all continue to raise rates regardless. My KZread TV went up over $10 seemingly overnight.

@mr.perksy

Ай бұрын

Streamflation is real. It will only get worse. More ads, and higher prices

Dear ESPN, how about you let people watch ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN News with their ESPN subscription? This is the most annoying thing.

They kept jacking the rates and priced themselves out 😂

It's surprising that ESPN and ESPN2 still require a cable provider to watch their primetime channels online. If they want to make that jump, they need the option to purchase those channels without a cable provider. I love watching sports, so it would be a no-brainer to subscribe to it.

The fact that ESPN pays the NFL more money for a few games than many countries in the world GDP is both mind blowing and depressing.

One more thought. Disney is currently selling for 75 times earnings. They haven’t really begun to see the pain that’s coming. They need to get new leadership that’s willing to go back to appealing to everyone or it’s going to get ugly

Rosalyn Durant has blindly drank the company Kool Aid.

Prime/amAzon dropping billions into football games. No body asked for. Yett they have the nerves to ask us to pay more to watch content ad free. Like wtf