ESPN Loses Another 1.5 Million Subscribers As Cord Cutting Accelerates


Good.

ESPN paying over a half billion a year for the College Football (Invite Only) "Playoff" is a joke. They're trying to trim fat by only having 1 anchor a show instead of looking at those enormous checks they have to cut each year for sports rights
 



ESPN got way too big over the last 20 years. If they are smart, they'll focus more on middle-of-the-pack and smaller conference sports, documentaries and Sportscenter. Let ABC, CBS & FOX deal with the big boy sports. They also need to drop the NBA package so NBC or Fox can bid on it.
 
It's an attack on the cable bundle packages which is a good thing. Thanks to app driven devices (Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, etc.) eventually the cable bundle package will be a thing of the past and cable subscribers will be able to individually select which cable networks they want to watch instead of some bundle package selected by their cable provider.
Of course, the cable bundle is under siege everywhere, not just in sports. (If you're interested in the total subscriber count for every cable channel, you can go check it out here.) As these subscriber losses continue to grow each quarter it's certainly fair to ask the question -- when will they end? Where's the bundle floor? Essentially, how many reliable cable and satellite bundle purchasers are there?
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As one can see, most sport packages are declining due to people cutting the cable cord:

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Source: http://sportstvratings.com/how-many...nd-nbc-sports-network-june-2016-edition/5087/
 
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Well since they are owned by Disney. They will be fine. They will find another avenue to be a player in the non cable market.
 
Even with Sling, you have to have a decent internet speed connection. For those that cut the cord already, who do you use as your internet provider?
 



Charter for me but Google fiber goes live here soon. If you have Comcast good luck because a lot of their areas have data caps. Charter doesn't have caps
 
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Even with Sling, you have to have a decent internet speed connection. For those that cut the cord already, who do you use as your internet provider?
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AT&T - been a cord cutter for almost two years now. Started with Sling when it first came out and we just moved to Playstation Vue. A little more expensive, but you get way more channels, including local and triple the sports channels you get with Sling. We switched so my husband could get Velocity and a few other racing channels as he is into cars and Indycar. It's $30 more than Sling, but still much cheaper than what I was paying when I had Direct Tv. I would have been just fine with Sling and a good attenna for the local channels, as all I typically watch are sports, HGTV, AMC, CNN, and whatever comes with Amazon Prime.
 
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