(05-25-2022 05:58 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: (05-25-2022 04:04 AM)johnbragg Wrote: (05-24-2022 07:04 PM)CardinalJim Wrote: I read recently you have to pay an additional fee at Disney if you want to use the Express Lane.
Why couldn’t Disney / ESPN charge an additional fee for viewing certain live sporting events. CFP and Championship, Last game of the Stanley Cup. NFL playoffs, Conference Championship games…
With the fee you get to watch coverage live. Without it you have to wait for tape delay.
An additional fee for certain live sports could be another revenue stream for Disney/ ESPN.
so, you're putting the games on pay per view.
(next to nobody is going to watch on tape delay.)
that shrinks your business long term, the leagues would hate it.
and in tge short term, the cable providers would throw a fit--part og the contract for ESPN to cost $10 a month per subscriber is to carry those events on ESPN live.
Costs are rising everywhere as we near double digit inflation. Why should college athletics be any different? I would pay another $10 a month to see ACC and SEC games live.
$10 a month lol. Try $10 a game, to make the numbers work.
Quote:It’s going to happen. It has to with costs rising so rapidly. While you are right cable providers would be upset they will be more upset when thousands keep dropping their services.
More people will drop the service if it doesn't include good content.
Quote:Over time ESPN is going to start going around cable companies directly to consumers in order to maximize profits. Costs will force them too.
At its peak Netflix had 222 million subscribers. ESPN has 150 million viewers per month. There is too much potential for ESPN to not cut out the cable providers. ESPN and its family of networks will become a streaming app. No different from Hulu, Paramount, or Netflix. Every home that wants to watch sports will have the app.
Except that ESPN *already* gets $10 a month from each of it's 75 million subscribers, including the little old ladies who mostly watch the HAllmark Channel, the Fox News obsessive who doesn't really care about sports, the family with kids who mostly watch the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon (I don't know if that segment still exists, that market is all Disney+ now).
The company that's road-testing this premise *right now* is Sinclair, through Diamond Sports Group (Bally's Sports Networks). They're launching a streaming service that carried their RSNs. The price? About $20 a month. For the ordinary local MLB, NBA, NHL in-market games. Not the playoffs, all-star game, national TV games etc.
And they're probably going to go broke because not enough people will buy it at that price.
You want the ESPN you get now as a streaming app, without the cable bundle? For $10 a month? LOL. I repeat, LOL.
You're looking at something more like NFL Sunday Ticket, which is $300 a year, which is around $50 a month. That;s the price point for the least attractive games, what's left over after your local Fox and CBS station and national Fox and CBS and NBC and ESPN and Amazon Thursday Night Football pick their games.
If you had to have Sunday Ticket to watch the Cowboys and Packers and Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes? $100 a month maybe?
Quote:It’s worth another $120 a year for me to enjoy quality live football, baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball.
That's nice. how do you feel about $100 a month?
Pro wrestling used to run on monthly pay-per-views, $30 then $40 a month. Like you said, inflation. So how do you feel about $100 a month? Maybe $200 a month, because as big as Wrestlemania is, it ain't the Superbowl.