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It's time to cut the cord. Either, listen on the radio while doing some other task, go to a game live, or do what I did when the NHL gave the fans the middle finger; by finding a college or minor league affiliate to watch. Look at ESPN. Baseball? There is plenty of A/AA/AAA ball. Basketball? Let's be honest, NCAA men's and women's ball, and the WNBA, have more heart and talent than the NBA. Football? Your local ABC affiliate carries your team when playing on Monday nights. So, if we change our way viewing, you'll kill ESPN's greed.
 
The Fat Man said:
It's time to cut the cord. Either, listen on the radio while doing some other task, go to a game live, or do what I did when the NHL gave the fans the middle finger; by finding a college or minor league affiliate to watch. Look at ESPN. Baseball? There is plenty of A/AA/AAA ball. Basketball? Let's be honest, NCAA men's and women's ball, and the WNBA, have more heart and talent than the NBA. Football? Your local ABC affiliate carries your team when playing on Monday nights. So, if we change our way viewing, you'll kill ESPN's greed.
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ESPN has CFB pretty much locked in - every game for my team cept for maybe 1 or 2 is carried on ESPN in some form. Now I do have ESPN3 or WatchESPN on my phone and tablet and online but the only way I was able to do that was to get the login info for my mother-in-law's comcast tv account. Now don't get me wrong that works out great too but sometimes that is blacked out if I pull it in Wifi instead of 4G which pisses me off not to mention I should be able to use my Dish login to get it cause I already pay for it thru them...but meh!
 
While sports do count for a lot of the increase... I wish writers would open up a math book and check out what the term "exponentially" actually means... because an exponential increase would pretty much mean no one would have sat or cable in a few years because it'd be $500 a month.
 
dvrexpander said:
ESPN has CFB pretty much locked in - every game for my team cept for maybe 1 or 2 is carried on ESPN in some form. Now I do have ESPN3 or WatchESPN on my phone and tablet and online but the only way I was able to do that was to get the login info for my mother-in-law's comcast tv account. Now don't get me wrong that works out great too but sometimes that is blacked out if I pull it in Wifi instead of 4G which pisses me off not to mention I should be able to use my Dish login to get it cause I already pay for it thru them...but meh!
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This watch ESPN app is beginning to piss me off. Tonight's the second time in a couple weeks that I planned to watch a game on the ESPN app and it told me it was blacked out. The game is airing on ESPN-U, and I planned to watch on the app since Dish doesn't offer the U in HD. Isn't the whole purpose of the app is to be able to watch a game if your away from the TV? Like on the road traveling or stuck at work? But it says blacked out, forcing me to watch on TV. Which in turn, if I'm watching on TV, I don't need the app!!!

Okay, I'm done bitching.......for now.

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If Dish ends up losing ESPN for a while over a contract dispute, they should auto credit everyone $10/month and announce that is the cost of carrying ESPN. It will not be far from the truth. It would probably displace a lot of the blame for the channel loss on ESPN.

The article's mentioning that ESPN knew of the MFN problem with Dish and dragged their feet so long does not cast ESPN in a good light.
 
mike123abc said:
If Dish ends up losing ESPN for a while over a contract dispute, they should auto credit everyone $10/month and announce that is the cost of carrying ESPN. It will not be far from the truth. It would probably displace a lot of the blame for the channel loss on ESPN.

The article's mentioning that ESPN knew of the MFN problem with Dish and dragged their feet so long does not cast ESPN in a good light.
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That would be great,but don't count on it. When ever we lose any channel or channels , we don't see a decrease in price.
 
satjay said:
Interesting year with Dish and Disney with the current trial and contract ending later this year
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This may be when Charlie decides to spin off the sports into their own premium pack in order to survive. IF not I can't see us absorbing another $3.00 a month in everybody's programming packs, just for the ESPN channels. If they did spin ALL of the sports channels off in to their own packs, we might see a $10.00 decrease a month ,in our basic programming packs.
 
MikeD-C05 said:
If they did spin ALL of the sports channels off in to their own packs, we might see a $10.00 decrease a month ,in our basic programming packs.
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At the same time, those who subscribe to this new sports package would see their monthly fees go up by dozens of dollars. ESPN demands to be part of most every package for a reason and I'm pretty sure they're going to see that demand sated.
 
espn will probably remain in the base packages for the foreseeable future (8-10 years), but I think providers are going to start demanding the right to put the other espn nets in sports / higher tiers.
 
Yespage said:
While sports do count for a lot of the increase... I wish writers would open up a math book and check out what the term "exponentially" actually means... because an exponential increase would pretty much mean no one would have sat or cable in a few years because it'd be $500 a month.
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Fine, it is merely a parabolic increase. Either way, the derivative of the function is not constant.
 
No, he said it right. A constant slope (steadily rising costs) vs. an increasing slope (derivative is increasing, and is not constant).
 
Actually, because it is parabolic, it is a second order polynomial, which means that the derivative will be ax/2 + b. IE, not constant.

Regardless, that too is exaggeration.
 

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