Some nice info for those that want to know http://www.sportsbusinessnews.com/_news/news_333688.php IF FSC get 10 million subscriber, it gets $2 million each month. $24 million each year.
Not really. FSC is the place that many people watch their favorite teams or leagues play. NFL Network is just a fluff station with no games, nor any real news. EDIT: The NFL Network does show preseason games, but not regular or postseason.
that seems like an awful lot of money for ESPN to be making domestically. $2.40 x about 80,000,000 homes that receive ESPN a month is incredible. Good for them I guess.
They still call it ESPN...i figured by now they changed it to MTV Sports Network. That channel is a disaster compared to 10 years ago.
My uncle's next door neighbor is an ESPN VP. When I met him, I said to him "ESPN... I remember you guys. Didn't you used to show sports?" He didn't take too kindly to that. Sachin
Well, when you drastically overpay for NHL rights and slightly overpay for NBA rights, you tend to find some ways to keep constant revenue coming in. By the way, if I remember correctly from my television programming class I took my Junior year at college (mind you, that was two years). ESPN has BY FAR the highest per subscriber rate of any non-premium cable channel, not just sports programming. In fact, when describing the tiers of channels, my professor put ESPN in a class all its own.
Great way to make a friendly first impression- when you first meet someone, insult their line of work.
The easiest way to kill ESPN would be for cable to let customers choose whether they wanted it or not. There goes the NFL. Their coverage is 99% AWFUL. If I were an NFL fan, I'd just get the direct TV package.
I think the main reason the cable companies haven't gone to "ala carte" style programming (which John McCain and others have lobbied for) is that it hurts smaller, niche channels (like Bravo or IFC) that are included on some basic packages that need that subscriber fee to survive. With that system in place, people probably would not pick that niche channel from the "menu" and you would get fewer cable channels taking chances.
Well the thing w/ niche channels is their programming is very cheap. Bravo is mostly reruns & stuff that costs pennies to broadcast. ESPN almost paid BILLIONS for the NFL & NBA. If enough people cancelled ESPN, they couldnt afford either.
Yep, in terms of carriage, ESPN and Discovery Channel are alone at the top, with CNN/MSNBC/FOX News and MTV not too far behind. ESPN is king of subscriber fees. And they do justify it. I've read that ESPN has more hours of live and original programming a week than literally 95% of all other channels. And the demand for it will likely remain high as long as they've got event-type TV, such as Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Baseball, ACC Wednesday and the rest.
Yeah, then in the next breath.... "Hi, I really love MLS...do you think you could add some games...?" Nice job, Sachin! (Heh)
Fox Soccer Channel reaches over 24 million subscribers http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3208646
........and poker, pro eating, little league baseball, drag racing, fishing, X-games, streetball (whatever the F#%K that is) and come on baseball really isn't a sport. This information has really upset me, I cant believe I've been paying for this crap, the only time I watch ESPN is when there is a Tennis major on. I think John McCain is 100% correct you should pay for what you want, damn meddeling (real) Republican getting in the way of the lobbyists controlling this(fake) Republican administration.
But people won't cancel ESPN, simply because they've got NFL games that you can't see anywhere else. And since NFL is the unofficial national religion...
The fact that anyone thinks a la carte will cause masses of people to cancel ESPN is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
It would actually happen to a certain extent. Some people just aren't sports fans. But ESPN would have fewer people cancelling it than just about every other channel on the dial. However, if it weren't for bundling, Fox Sports World would never have gotten on as many cable and satellite systems as it did. It might've never even been born in the first place. And if cable and satellite channels truly went a la carte, Fox Soccer Channel and Gol TV wouldn't be long for the world, since they're the epitome of niche channels.
This really shows how you are ignorant about American sports. When you come to this country, you really should learn to appreciate our sports, as well as its coverage. DirecTV's Sunday Ticket package is for Out-of-market NFL games. Repeat after me, Out-of-Market, i.e. a Sunday afternoon game televised in New York (e.g. Giants) that aren't available in Miami. That's why it's called SUNDAY TICKET. ESPN's game is a national telecast. Everyone in the country would see it (except the local blackout if the stadium isn't sold out N hours before game time). And how is ESPN's NFL coverage 99% awful?
The problem is, that's a big "IF" from your wishful thinking. With exclusive coverage on NFL/NBA games, do you think enough people (Americans, not expat soccer fans from Europe) would cancel ESPN? I, for one, am thinking about getting the cable channels a la carte thru' C-band. There are only 4 channels I want: ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and TBS what are they for? not for la Liga, not for CL, not for EPL. I need them for the NFL, NBA and college football...