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 Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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kudos:4 | Why is cable TV costly? SPORTS! SPORTS! SPORTS! & Disney »allthingsd.com/20120127/like-spo···-anyway/
Takeaway from today’s chart: Nothing has really changed — you’re still paying a lot for sports, and you’re paying a lot for ESPN.
That’s why Disney’s sports channel is the most valuable asset on your cable dial. And it’s also why you’ve been hearing increasing grumbling — from both customers and ESPN’s non-sports cable competitors — about ESPN’s drag on your cable bill. Disney and ESPN can charge that much because the cable guys, like Comcast, think the programming is worth it to their customer base. And they’re signing up long-term deals that will keep that fee structure in place for the next decade. So what about that “over the top” option, anyway? Some industry observers, like BTIG’s Rich Greenfield, are sure that someone — Apple, Google, Verizon, who knows — will offer one this year. Today, Bernstein’s Craig Moffett has a long essay describing why that won’t happen for a long time, if ever. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said something similar this week, alluding to the fact that Microsoft has reportedly bailed on its Web TV subscription plans.
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| said by Romney2012:http://allthingsd.com/20120127/like-sports-on-cable-pay-up-dont-like-sports-on-cable-pay-up-anyway/
Takeaway from today’s chart: Nothing has really changed — you’re still paying a lot for sports, and you’re paying a lot for ESPN.
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That’s why Disney’s sports channel is the most valuable asset on your cable dial. And it’s also why you’ve been hearing increasing grumbling — from both customers and ESPN’s non-sports cable competitors — about ESPN’s drag on your cable bill.
Disney and ESPN can charge that much because the cable guys, like Comcast, think the programming is worth it to their customer base. And they’re signing up long-term deals that will keep that fee structure in place for the next decade.
So what about that “over the top” option, anyway? Some industry observers, like BTIG’s Rich Greenfield, are sure that someone — Apple, Google, Verizon, who knows — will offer one this year. Today, Bernstein’s Craig Moffett has a long essay describing why that won’t happen for a long time, if ever. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said something similar this week, alluding to the fact that Microsoft has reportedly bailed on its Web TV subscription plans. As long as MOST(not all) subscribers demand sports channels(especially ESPN), the cable bills will be high and will be getting higher. Maybe they could move ESPN into an add-on tier, such as the sports entertainment pack. I have to buy that nonsense just to get Turner Classic Movies and Fox Movie Channel(which my mother watches). Most of the channels I get are garbage, but they make you buy the bad channels to get the good ones. Some of the channels I watch are The Weather Channel, Fox News, WWLP (local station), a few of the Music Choice Channels, CMT Pure Country, Great American Country, VH1 Classic, MTV Hits, and a few others.
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Mount Airy, MD | said by IowaCowboy:Maybe they could move ESPN into an add-on tier, such as the sports entertainment pack. Doubtful. There's no way Disney's gonna give up that kind of scratch.
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said by Romney2012:Takeaway from today’s chart: Nothing has really changed — you’re still paying a lot for sports, and you’re paying a lot for ESPN.
That’s why Disney’s sports channel is the most valuable asset on your cable dial. And it’s also why you’ve been hearing increasing grumbling — from both customers and ESPN’s non-sports cable competitors — about ESPN’s drag on your cable bill. I really dig this news for two reasons.
• I'm an anti-ProSports snob.
• I don't own a TV, so no cable bill.
It cheers me up that people (who aren't me)
may realize they're negatively impacted by an industry that annoys me.
(elaboration: Pro-Sports are as meaningful to me - as stamp collecting is to most people.
Imagine you are surrounded by a monstrous national obsession with a multi-billion dollar philatelic industry. You are baffled at the amount of importance and resources people invest in it.
That's describes my relationship with professional sports.
However, I choose to not obsess and will usually shut up about it.)
/end me
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Oh, sports...
I strongly believe the NY Giants should be treated like rabid wolverines -- dispatched quickly, ruthlessly and, hopefully, before halftime.
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