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martyb
on Wednesday November 01 2017, @11:58AM
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. I've written for the past couple of years that as ESPN's business collapses that ESPN's decision on whether or not to bid to keep Monday Night Football would be the first big test of how rapidly that business is deteriorating.
What's a deteriorating business look like? In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates.
15,000 a day!
Losing 15,000 subscribers per day is a lot, but is that because of the NFL anthem protests or because cord-cutting has finally reached a tipping point?
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ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @12:51PM (1 child)
I'm not disputing the importance of viewership and advertising dollars. I was just pointing out that ESPN does no "lose subscribers" on their own. They can only lose subscribers by cable customers discontinuing an entire sports package or disconnecting their service. If I could disconnect only ESPN I would have done so years ago.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 01 2017, @01:06PM
Fair nuff.
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