Dish HD vs Disney (DISH sort of won...)
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"Dish's Cullen said a move to a sports tier would have saved the company a load of money. But ESPN argues Classic wasn’t so narrowly consumed, presenting data showing that in 2010, 1.6 million viewers were watching the network for at least six minutes a month."
Wow! Six minutes a month is a very low bar to hit!
Wow! Six minutes a month is a very low bar to hit!
I think they were trying to show that more than 10% of Dish users tuned in to ESPN Classic at least once a month.
Doesn't say 6 minutes at a time. Could easily aggregate that over channel surfing and accidental tuning.
A much better measure would be people who tuned at least 30 min in a single sitting.
As they show, only like 14 people cancelled when they moved it to a higher tier later, swapping with ESPNU. Looks more like 0.0001% of Dish customers cared that much about having ESPN Classic.
I actually like ESPN Classic (or Classic Sports Network that is used to be). The only sports I watch are KC Chiefs games and the occasional StL Blues game but I actually used to watch Classic. A lot more frequently than I ever watch ESPN. Since they moved it to whatever tier they moved it to, I don't get to watch it at all (and I have AEP). Definitely wouldn't spend any extra $$ for it.
That's the point......
EXACTLY! There are several channels I have that I watch, but if I had the choice of knocking off the channel to save $0.10 a month, I'd kill it. That's why sports kill me. They add WAY more then $0.10 a month, yet I'm stuck with them. The argument of people watching it 6 minutes a month is STUPID. Honestly, does anyone know of any channel they only watch for less than 30 minutes a month that they wouldn't be OK to be rid of?
In fact, I just looked. Out of my recurring timers, I only have 14 timers on 8 channels that are "cable" channels (i.e. non broadcast networks).* Of those, I really only consider 4 of those channels "must" haves, i.e. I'm willing to pay fair amounts of money to have them.
* - as an aside, the only reason I have AT250 is because my roommate wants it. Otherwise, I'd probably have the Welcome Pack, if not off Dish completely. I used to watch more, but due to the crapification of niche channels like Travel, History, The Learning Channel/"TLC", Sci-Fi/"Syfy", and TechTV/"G4"/"The Esquire Network", fewer and few channels are worth watching and just have turned into reality "pretty/rich people whining"/"make fun of white trash/hillbillies" garbage.
Interesting semi-related case: Cablevision is suing Viacom over bundling:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads...dling-Accuses-Company-of-Antitrust-Violations
http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads...dling-Accuses-Company-of-Antitrust-Violations
Closing arguments today. http://www.mediapost.com/publicatio...-moving-toward-finish-line.html#axzz2M4UmA7z9
Interesting that the article mentioned autohop... I wonder if ABC will try to kill off autohop in September, or hold ESPN hostage?
Yeah agree! These networks have gotten to greedy and they are over pricing all the providers I hope that the jury can see this. It's way over due and it's time someone put their foot down.
As was mentioned last week, I dont see AutoHop being a factor. DISH is ESPN's 2nd largest distribution, if DISNEY removed its channels from DISH they would be losing a major major chunk of their revenue which would hurt them probably more then it would hurt DISH.
Really? I can think of 2 off hand that distribute more...Direct, and Comcast.
