Posted on 09/22/2015 3:54:57 PM PDT by 867V309
Cut your cable cord. This is what 3.2 million Americans have done over the last year or so. The result is not only a massive loss of revenue for ESPN but ESPN is poisoning -7.2% fewer U.S. households.
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But I do have deep antenna backup
I cannot even stand FNC
I really look forward to the day I can either cut cable or there is an alternative that meets my needs.
Got to have news, motorsports, a few documentaries. I don’t watch movies.
I remember when Sunday was race day on ESPN. They had everything, F1 cars/motorcycles, Busch Grand National, Nascar, hillbillies squirting motorized bathtubs across swamps [oops, that was TNN] the whole schmear. Not any more. I said for years Nascar’s money-grubbing France family wouldn’t be happy until they made race-watching pay-per-view, like wrestling. It used to be about the competition...
ESPN definitely would receive an amount per month for each cable or satellite subscriber, but so would a fair number of other channels, and the cable and satellite companies would get their cut.
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I don’t know if they receive that much, but they do receive more than anybody else.
my neighbor does not have cable for the past 10 years believe it or not. All he requires is a fast connection on the internet. need to watch a movie? Just google it. No netflix required.
Need to watch a superbowl. Sheesh,everything;s free on the web. free sports etc.
Cut my cable and get my news on the web and an online subscription to WSJ. Netflix and Amazon Prime fulfill all my TVShow and movie needs.
Only thing I don’t get is NFL football games but I was in Buffalo Wild Wings last night watching the Jets game. Much better watching the games in a sports bar.
I could get all my news on the net. I have a 150mbps connection.
See post #28. They definitely receive an amount per month per subscriber, but so do many others. And Dish or whatever cable or satellite company would probably keep more than half of the monthly subscriber's bill. ESPN probably gets more like $0.67.
I worked for a company once that owned a cable TV company and it was paying cents per month to the channels: $0.10 to $0.25.
Why are there so many homes in America with both abandoned Dish and Direct TV antennas?
It is because the lure you in with that price, change the terms and fees and generally jerk you around on the telephone.
All for 112 channels of crap you are not interested in.
Where do you find news on cable these days. Very little on BBC, some on Al Jazera. None on CNN or 'Headline News' except random high speed chases, Fox is a bunch of folks screaming at each other. MicrosoftNBC a bunch of commies ranting.
You mean people actually pay to have toxic television programming in their house? Who knew!
The minimum service is already over $30/month with fees and taxes. I don't even get CSPAN or anything but the basics, but I do get two stations of people babbling in Illegalese.
The basic stations might come in without the box (that's what someone said). Whatever. If I can't choose what stations I want, it'll be better to live with the stations that come through with an antenna.
Amen!
who’s your ISP?
Mark
Sweet.
I cut the cable 3 years ago. I’m glad to have done my small part to help dismantle ESPN, which is the worst thing ever to happen to sports.
A $35 antenna in the attic should get you 60+ HD Stations if you are within 65 to 100 mi of a metropolis
I've got an abandoned Dish. Like many others, I have Netflix and Amazon Prime and there are many places to watch TV programs on the net, both legal and probably illegal.
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