(03-01-2018 03:20 PM)WKUYG Wrote: (03-01-2018 03:11 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (03-01-2018 03:07 PM)WKUYG Wrote: (03-01-2018 02:51 PM)arkstfan Wrote: (03-01-2018 02:50 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote: I'm fine with paying for content in chunks vs paying a monthly big chunk.
This means the end of having to commit to long term deals and having to pay for it when you are not using it.
CUSA gives you the choice of paying in chunks or subscribing.
It is $6.95 for 24 hours
$10.95 for a month
$99.95 for a year
You get ONLY CUSA content.
ESPN+ will be $5 a month.
CUSA is looking at a APP something like the OVC network for ROKU. The OVC has a really good app based broadcast that is as clear as most TV games on the FCS.
In my opinion this should be the base model CUSA and the SBC should go to....with a $5 to $8 monthly fee. Then try to sell your championship games to TV and a few other games
I mean, we're essentially doing that except our app is called ESPN+ and offers content other than Sun Belt sports like MLS and MLB games.
HUGE difference...espn gets that $5 fee each month
If each of the 12 SBC schools had 10k in fans (total 120k fans that signed up at $5 a month...$50 a year for the SBC app,
thats $6,000,000 going to the SBC and 15k each (180k) that's 9 million
Forbes reported in the spring of 2015 that MLB.tv had around 3.5 million subscribers.
Let's assume NHL had a million with no overlap.
Let's assume MLB.tv is at four million, that's five million subscribers who say please take my $60 but I would wager that at roughly half the cost of MLB.tv and less than half the cost of NHL Game Center that they could very easily generate volume to more than make that up.
Hulu has 17 million subscribers (real Hulu not the cable replacement) if they could hit the Hulu number they are way ahead. If they can hit the 104 million of Netflix they are printing their own money.
I would expect something closer to Hulu because Hulu's numbers are US only while Netflix is worldwide.
ESPN could easily gross $85 million a month on ESPN+ and even more if they are inserting ads at 17 million subscribers.
Assuming all of our estimated 4 million MLB.tv subscribers are buying the full package and not a team package that's $460 million a year add in the NHL subscribers and assuming none buy the cheaper team only that's $140 million a year to generate $600 million.
If ESPN+ can hit the Hulu level, thats 1 billion a year.
That's a heckuva package.