(10-31-2017 02:20 PM)Sellular1 Wrote:  

(10-30-2017 10:48 PM)namssa Wrote:  https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-...-football/

This article pretty much says it all. ESPN is a dead man walking. They are going the way of MTV and Blockbuster. They create no content only broadcast other people's content. They are a middle man the way blockbuster was. No need for ESPN once you can get the content through streaming and other sources.

ESPN is the production side, cable is the supply side. ESPN still owns the production and content. Not like Netflix can stream Penn St vs Ohio St without going through ESPN first.

Until they don't need ESPN for the production. As others have noted, ESPN is the middle man who packages up the game, marks it up and then sells it as their own. The product is supplied by the teams themselves. All four of the major sports have their own networks now - they don't need ESPN's production. The B1G and Pac-12 have their own independent networks, too. ESPN has an ownership stake in the SEC network, the Longhorn Network and the planned ACC Network, but those conferences could soon go independent. If all of these sports decided to cut ESPN out and start controlling their own product, ESPN would have to go back to airing Australian Rules Football.

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