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Re: Boycott You need to go back and rta. It's way more than 5 cents per user. ESPN wants to charge smaller ISPs as much as 79 cents per user.
That may still be less than $10 per year, but what is going to happen when other big corporations / industries start following suit? | | |
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Camden, TN | said by byteme :
You need to go back and rta. It's way more than 5 cents per user. ESPN wants to charge smaller ISPs as much as 79 cents per user.
That may still be less than $10 per year, but what is going to happen when other big corporations / industries start following suit?
"ESPN receives TV-type affiliate fees from operators for rights to make 360 available, reportedly charging a sub fee of 5 cents per month. ESPN says 360 carries 3,500 live sports events a year, from NBA playoff games to overseas cricket. " | |
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| said by BF69:said by byteme :
You need to go back and rta. It's way more than 5 cents per user. ESPN wants to charge smaller ISPs as much as 79 cents per user.
That may still be less than $10 per year, but what is going to happen when other big corporations / industries start following suit?
"ESPN receives TV-type affiliate fees from operators for rights to make 360 available, reportedly charging a sub fee of 5 cents per month. ESPN says 360 carries 3,500 live sports events a year, from NBA playoff games to overseas cricket. " Point of fact - ESPN360 carries content *not* carried either by other ESPN networks or the various RSNs (while CSNDC, like all FSN affiliates, does have a cross-carriage agreement with Canada's TSN for CFL games, even CSNDC doesn't carry them all; I catch the remainder via ESPN360). Also, most of that additional fee comes from my existing CHSI bill (in short, I am not charged extra specifically for ESPN360, either via the cable-TV bill or the HSI bill). Would you favor ESPN360 instead being another linear channel?
As to why I watch the CFL (being that I'm hundreds of miles from the nearest Canadian border), blame the NFL players' strike of 1982, followed in the following decade by the CFL's (short-lived) expansion into the US. Also, the differences between the CFL and NFL (both in field dimensions and the one-less down) make for a MUCH more wide-open style of play compared to even collegiate football in the US, let alone the NFL. (And that is even though I'm still horked off at the CFL stealing the Baltimore Stallions immediately after they won the Grey Cup and importing them into Montreal as the New Alouettes.) | |
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