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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
(05-10-2013 03:50 PM)LightEmUp70 Wrote: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141097593.html
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/can-espn-s...h-cm229538
As of 2012 they got about $5.06 per subscriber. My prediction is that they can actually charge slightly less with an a la carte system and would more than make up for it with the increase in subscribers. Of course you would have to add the surcharge for having the cable, but a build your own cable system would be great. The main reason they have channels in tier packages is because of the lesser known channels being afraid of getting pushed out of the market.
and thats fine, if thats what they want to do...but i dont feel good about the govt regulating it
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
(05-10-2013 04:07 PM)LairDweller Wrote: (05-10-2013 03:50 PM)LightEmUp70 Wrote: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141097593.html
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/can-espn-s...h-cm229538
As of 2012 they got about $5.06 per subscriber. My prediction is that they can actually charge slightly less with an a la carte system and would more than make up for it with the increase in subscribers. Of course you would have to add the surcharge for having the cable, but a build your own cable system would be great. The main reason they have channels in tier packages is because of the lesser known channels being afraid of getting pushed out of the market.
and thats fine, if thats what they want to do...but i dont feel good about the govt regulating it
Agreed
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
(05-10-2013 03:50 PM)LightEmUp70 Wrote: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141097593.html
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/can-espn-s...h-cm229538
As of 2012 they got about $5.06 per subscriber. My prediction is that they can actually charge slightly less with an a la carte system and would more than make up for it with the increase in subscribers. Of course you would have to add the surcharge for having the cable, but a build your own cable system would be great. The main reason they have channels in tier packages is because of the lesser known channels being afraid of getting pushed out of the market.
I'm just curious, where do you think the increase in subscribers would come from? The $5.06 is charged to every cable or satellite subscriber right now, whether that person uses the channel or not. Even basic cable packages have ESPN in them. I just don't see where extra subscribers would come from. I wouldn't be shocked if ESPN charged more, because I think they would lose subscribers if it went to this type of system.
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LightEmUp70
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
There are a lot of people that won't pay for the fluff channels. For example. If I had cable, I would watch maybe 10 or 12 channels. I can't justify paying $50 a month or more for channels I don't want or use. I can, however, justify paying $20 for a few channels I actually want. ESPN could probably actually charge more than $5 on an a la carte basis, and could charge even more ($10 or more) for a package including ESPN 2, News, 3D, and Classic. It's a different business model, but can be very effective. Look at how successful Netflex, Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon Prime are.
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
I do not believe that will take place because too many politicians would have to forego too many $$$$ from big business. On a personal level, I would like the approach.
However I think it would be bad for UAB athletics. The mid-major conferences such as CUSA mainly have agreements with the second tier networks such as foxdirectional sports, cbssports and lessor ESPN such as U. Only the franitic sports fan would pay extra as an individual choice for these second tier networks. If these networks receive less money then CUSA will get a smaller contract and UAB gets less,
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2013 01:08 PM by uabbean.)
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
I thought republicans were about small government? ............oh well
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
Cable -- and sateliite -- will be dead in 10 years. Broadband will replace it everywhere, and everyone will be purchasing all of their entertainment a la carte.
I already do -- I got rid of my dish six months ago -- and I haven't missed it a bit. Apple TV, Hulu and Netflix, plus an online WatchESPN subscription, cover everything I want to see. I was spending morel than $85 a month for a fairly basic DirectTV subscription. I now pay a total of $32 a month for everything I desire to see, unless I buy something a la carte through iTunes, which is rare. Add my broadband subscription, and it still just $68 a month, and I would pay for broadband regardless of whether I had cable/satellite or not.
As soon as high-speed broadband becomes ubiquitous, cable and satellite will be dead. And what makes it affordable is that most markets, like mine, have multiple ISPs, meaning market forces keep the prices fairly reasonable for subscribers. Now, if ISPs become like cable TV, with just one provider per market, then you have issues.
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
(05-12-2013 08:48 PM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote: Cable -- and sateliite -- will be dead in 10 years. Broadband will replace it everywhere, and everyone will be purchasing all of their entertainment a la carte.
I already do -- I got rid of my dish six months ago -- and I haven't missed it a bit. Apple TV, Hulu and Netflix, plus an online WatchESPN subscription, cover everything I want to see. I was spending morel than $85 a month for a fairly basic DirectTV subscription. I now pay a total of $32 a month for everything I desire to see, unless I buy something a la carte through iTunes, which is rare. Add my broadband subscription, and it still just $68 a month, and I would pay for broadband regardless of whether I had cable/satellite or not.
As soon as high-speed broadband becomes ubiquitous, cable and satellite will be dead. And what makes it affordable is that most markets, like mine, have multiple ISPs, meaning market forces keep the prices fairly reasonable for subscribers. Now, if ISPs become like cable TV, with just one provider per market, then you have issues.
Do tell how you have an online WatchESPN subscription without having cable or satellite? Who is your ISP?
The way you presented it makes it appear as though you can just buy an online subscription to WatchESPN but that is not the case.
My guess is that, like the policy is for internet subscribers that aren't TV subscribers, you only have access to ESPN3 content, which for most won't cut it.
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2013 09:21 AM by demiveeman.)
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RE: John McCain Wants To Blow Up Sports On Television
If cable did go a la carte (including local TV), I'd be ecstatic; I'd get PBS Kids Sprout, Nick Jr., Disney Jr. (gotta keep the daughter happy), BBC America, CBS Sports, NBC Sports (gotta keep me happy), OWN, and the Lifetime channels (gotta keep the boss happy). That would probably be much cheaper than paying through the nose for craptacular Mediacom like I am now.
Plus, I can watch CFL on ESPN3 and be happy.
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2013 10:18 AM by BlazerJoe.)
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