 herdfanPremium
join:2003-01-25
Hurricane, WV | reply to Hall
Re: Somewhere in between lies the truth.... Here's the problem with that. I believe that ESPN's contract REQUIRES their service to be part of the basic package, the exception being a package of the local networks.
Also ESPN's contracts allow them 20% per year increases for the term of the contract.
The cable companies are between a rock & a hard place to keep revenue up to meet these costs. The major cable channels all do the same thing. TNT threaten to withhold NASCAR races for operators that didn't agree to higher fees, the Disney/Comcast issue and there are others.
So they came up with internet service to raise revenue with lower costs, and then Verizon cut its rates for DSL. The only thing saving the cable co's is that DSL is not available everywhere there is a phone line or at $29.95/mo, DSL would be king.
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