oliphant5
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Re: If channels are so expensive...
And maybe ESPN is facing operating cost increases as part of it...but consumers shouldn't be paying for ESPN's poor judgement in starting up crap like Cold Pizza or overbidding for sports broadcast rights.
I mean hell...I just looked at what ESPN has on right now...billiards! They want to charge cable operators a 20% increase and they're showing billiards!?!
They're dreaming.
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TheMadSwede
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| said by oliphant5  :
I mean hell...I just looked at what ESPN has on right now...billiards! They want to charge cable operators a 20% increase and they're showing billiards!?!
You posted that at 3:05 ET on a Sunday. There were probably 2 NFL games going on at that time on FOX and CBS.
What else are they going to show? They can't compete with the NFL games, so they put on "alternative" programming. Bowling, billiards, gymnastics. You'll pretty much always see that kind of stuff during NFL games.
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| So the cable operator is going to fork over 35% per year in increases for what then? That slim window when they'll bother trying to put on programming someone will watch?
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TheMadSwede
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So the cable operator is going to fork over 35% per year in increases for what then? That slim window when they'll bother trying to put on programming someone will watch?
Man - you love arguing. Actually it's not really a slim window. For instance, the only local Neilsen ratings I could easily find were from San Diego market - Time Warner. But it still makes the point.
8 of the top 10 audiences in October were watching ESPN programming.
Lest our results be tainted with MLB playoff games...the 2 weekend ratings from Nov 14-16 and Nov 21-23 placed ESPN programming at 3 of the top 10 and 4 of the top 10, respectively.
I guess my point is that you were just watching ESPN at the wrong time. I don't like rate hikes any more than the next guy, but when you look at the corner that ESPN has on the market, it shouldn't be a surprise that they try to squeeze every dime out of the operators.
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