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ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 01 2017, @11:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.

Phoenix666 submitted this story:

Is ESPN done for?

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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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 01 2017, @01:17PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 01 2017, @01:17PM (#590543) Journal

    I never understood how people could watch golf without chewing off their eyeballs to escape the tedium. Then there came a period when I was looking for work in the Bay Area and stayed with my aunt and golf-fanatic uncle in the guest room of their condo in Fremont. There was a desktop in there, so I went to use it to find job leads. The first thing that popped up in the browser was reams and reams of photos of naked women on golf greens, spreading their legs in front of the hole while foursomes of golfing men putted little white balls in. Suddenly I understood that golf is a metaphor for sex, and that the entire sport is a twisted sublimation of middle aged men's desires.

    POW! There you have it. Your mind has been blown, no?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 01 2017, @02:16PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 01 2017, @02:16PM (#590560) Journal

    POW! There you have it. Your mind has been blown, no?

    Actually, no, I think you forget the quasi-ubiquitous applicability of Rule 34.
    You won't think that playing guitar [xkcd.com] is "a twisted sublimation of middle aged men's desires", will ya?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @06:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @06:00PM (#590694)

    Your mind has been blown, no?

    No, something else entirely... don't leave me wanting, please, go on, tell me more