"But the most interesting part here is the tribute money back to Disney."

"try and convince the SEC to play its CBS game of the week on campus on Monday nights"

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017...tball.html

(10-31-2017 11:35 AM)HoustonRocks Wrote:  "But the most interesting part here is the tribute money back to Disney."

"try and convince the SEC to play its CBS game of the week on campus on Monday nights"

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017...tball.html

"ESPN is the sports version of Blockbuster Video."

I don't think they will go the way of Blockbuster, but things are not good, and will only get worse. Interesting to see how this effects the CFB TV market.

RutQuoHood gonna RutQuoHood.

(10-31-2017 12:01 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(10-31-2017 11:35 AM)HoustonRocks Wrote:  "But the most interesting part here is the tribute money back to Disney."

"try and convince the SEC to play its CBS game of the week on campus on Monday nights"

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017...tball.html

"ESPN is the sports version of Blockbuster Video."

No, chord cutting is hurting them however they are already transitioning to a single subscription model. Blockbuster could have gone redbox but refused.

ESPN and Disney are heavily invested in streaming technology. The model is changing, and they may have trouble with some of the huge rights deals they have, but they won't be the next Blockbuster.

This could be very interesting is this is really going to happen!!!

Silly silly analysis. It assumes that the cable carriers will not change their model to fight back. They havent changed the model up to now because, despite the doom and gloom---cord cutting in sum total has eroded about 10-15% of the cable subscriber base. The cable carriers are still making far more with the current model than they would by changing the cable bundle model. Eventually, assuming the customer base continues to erode, the cable carriers are going to be fighting back with skinny bundles and a la carte.

Additional things not noted in the analysis. Most ESPN carriage agreements include automatic yearly increase of about 5%. So the loss of annual revenue isnt what people think it is. Finally, the other thing people dont know is streames are getting their rights fees for pennies on the dollar because they attract fewer viewers. Currently, content carriers look to cable networks as the primary place to monetize their content value. Streamers have been seen by content providers as simply an additional outlet to obtain some incremental income (found money so to speak). As streamers become a bigger part of the audience, the content providers will look to them to pay more. The price of streaming will go up as a result and the primary attraction of streaming over cable (price) will dissappear.

In the end---you'll end up with 2 competing entertainment delivery systems that overlap quite e bit. Cable isnt going to die and neither is ESPN. The only danger ESPN faces is losing its big catalogue of live sports rights. THAT huge inventory of live sports rights is what makes ESPN valuable. Without it---they are just CBS-Sports Netowrk. Thus, the real danger to ESPN is not cord cutting. The real danger to ESPN is major sports leagues and conferences walking away from ESPN in favor of starting their own streaming networks.

People still want content and that doesn't change. The change is the way it's delivered so companies will have to adjust to the market. Or there will be something like ATTACKCOOG says where disruption occurs and individual streaming networks are created.

(10-31-2017 12:29 PM)Chappy Wrote:  ESPN and Disney are heavily invested in streaming technology. The model is changing, and they may have trouble with some of the huge rights deals they have, but they won't be the next Blockbuster.

Ding Ding.

They will be fine eventually. Unfortunately they overpaid for broadcast rights for MNF and the NBA at exactly the wrong time. MNF rights are until 2021 and the NBA is to 2025. Those will hurt until then but it will not put ESPN out of business by any stretch.
I wouldnt be shocked if Disney does spin them off or sell them by 2021 though. Disney is going starting a subscriber service next year and may look to cut less profitable portions of their company.

Way outside my purview, but what happens if net neutrality comes to an end? I have no cable, get internet through Spectrum, stream channels through Hulu, use Netflix, etc. My understanding is if net neutrality ends, Spectrum could slow down my streaming and say okay pay us $15 per month to speed up Hulu, $10 per month for Netflix, $10 per month to stream over the ESPN app and so on. I'm just throwing those figures out as examples, but from what I've read, this may actually happen soon. Cable providers are trying to force us back in.

(10-31-2017 02:03 PM)mikeinoki Wrote:  Way outside my purview, but what happens if net neutrality comes to an end? I have no cable, get internet through Spectrum, stream channels through Hulu, use Netflix, etc. My understanding is if net neutrality ends, Spectrum could slow down my streaming and say okay pay us $15 per month to speed up Hulu, $10 per month for Netflix, $10 per month to stream over the ESPN app and so on. I'm just throwing those figures out as examples, but from what I've read, this may actually happen soon. Cable providers are trying to force us back in.

I know in Spain you buy broadband based on what you want to do....

for example, you'd pay $10 bucks a month for email, $10 a month for social media, $10 a month for video/streaming, etc.