Thought this was pretty interesting. The most surprising stat is that CBS-Sports Network has substantially closed the subscriber gap between CBSSN and the top ESPN networks. While ESPN remains king, according to these numbers, the CBSSN subscriber count now compares favorably to ESPN-U.


Bryan Fischer
@BryanDFischer
Per Kagan estimates released last month, 2021 Year-end subscribers:

75.7 million — ESPN
75.6 — ESPN2
72.2 — FS1
62.6 — CBSSN
54.9 — ESPNU
51.2 — SECN
50.7 — FS2
48.1 — BTN

Winer added this nugget---

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Jon Wilner
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P12N is ~14 million


Its worth noting that ESPN+ has 22 million subscribers---meaning ESPN+ has over 50% more reach than the Pac-12 Network.