Here is another.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
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56% of viewers would drop ESPN
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Fox News is in the lower tier packages, it is in the Select Pkg. for D*, 120 for E and when I just had Blast Plus for Comcast ( their 45 channel pkg, but no ESPN) it was on.
Yes but who's commercials are they watching when streaming, certainly not all the locals that are inserted by the cable/satellite providers. If I subscribe to Dish but watch ESPN on an app, do I see all the Dish promos for instance? How about the local car dealer inserts on cable? While technically they aren't stealing viewers they are, in fact, stealing viewing and that amounts to the same thing.
I watch both CNN and MSNBC daily and never watch Fox ,unless someone ties me to a chair at my parents house during the holidays- which just happened a couple of weeks ago.
Don't like Fox, but damn is she hot. Ever notice they got the hottest leggy babes (Newscasters )
around? Maybe that's why they're number one.
Don't like Fox, but damn is she hot. Ever notice they got the hottest leggy babes (Newscasters )
Not saying she ain't hot...but
Anna Kooiman
That's explains why she says stupid S%=!
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The fact you don't watch Fox news has no bearing on something being A La Carte or not, that isn't a barometer for that. Otherwise everything is A La Carte, and we don't want that. Fox News is one of the most watched cable channels, not just the most watched news cable channel. Making it A La carte would be counter productive. The idea of ESPN (And the poll) is that so many at least claim to not watch or would rather have the reduction in cost and combine that with the overall cost of all the sports channels/RSN's combined. It would be counterproductive to the consumer to take popular channels like Fox News, TNT USA etc out of packages and make them more expensive A La Carte.
Even going back to the beginnings of Satellite and Cable not everything was A La Carte nor is that really a worthy goal.
Instead of being biased, had you said take all news channels and make a separate package that may make some sense, though again most everyone watches them with some regularity, I don't think it would be cost effective to exclude them from regular packages. Why wouldn't you say the same for MSNBC, it has literally statistically a few hundred viewers at times.
Ouch....that hurts! That's me you're talking about!
Love my sports, that's one of the reasons I left Dish for Direct but cut the cord last year because costs have got too ridiculous. Had Sunday Ticket, NBA League Pass, etc but it just got too much. Not many people might know this but if you have a kid in college they can get Sunday Ticket Max for you for $100, instead of the regular $400 & I now eliminate the others or do half season subscription, all now streaming of course.
Watching the Chiefs now.......my condolences! As a long suffering Dolphins fan I'm sorry you didn't beat those stinking Patriots!
Not a fan of the Fox News but I don't think any of the news channels should be ala carte, we already have enough people in their "bubble". We need easy access to all view points plus it's good to know what's feeding these far right/far left wingers. If I had to subscribe separately to Fox News or MSNBC I'm sure I would be staying in my CNN "bubble".
+1..... and I'm more a liberal & not a fan of Fox News.
I would drop ESPN before I dropped FSN.
The only thing ESPN is good for is the occasional games they buy the rights to to force you to watch their channel.
The only thing ESPN is good for is the occasional games they buy the rights to to force you to watch their channel.
We could get our 20 or so channels our family watches for about $50, assuming Science or truTV (not on the list) aren't in the upper tier range.
That's explains why she says stupid S%=!
You're supposed to turn off the audio and just look at her.
I agree. As long as the same applies to all the niche channels as well.
In fact, i'd like to see it all go a la carte......All of it.
I'd sub to maybe 30 channels.
Well, if sports programming were not offered in some type of sports only tier, the next move would be pay per view. At that point, the whole thing crashes and burns. Few people are going to fork over $5 to $10 for a game view.
I chose that figure because the American Hockey League charges I think $6 or $7 to view a game on line. There are other similar minor professional leagues that do have streaming game views for a fee.
MiLB.com allows users to view individual minor league baseball games.
I have to figure an individual Major League Game view would be roughly $10 to $15....An NHL game....$7- $10. NBA? Dunno. Probably in the $10-$12 range. Football? It's on OTA tv. But the games on pay tv only? Who knows. $20 per game?....
Only die hards would pay to see one game. And playoff games for each sports league? Don't have a guess.
All I can say is if this ever happens where pro and college sports is forced to go PPV, it will become cost prohibitive and the average Joe/Jane will balk.
