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?
(Score: 2) by goodie on Wednesday November 01 2017, @02:50PM
Because who would possibly think that having this much money in a sport is something that is worth it? On top of that for a sport that is increasingly recognized as dangerous and debilitating for the players... Oh yeah, pickup trucks and light beer commercials, I forgot those were important. It's the same thing for hockey, soccer, golf etc. don't get me wrong, I have nothing against sports, I have something against having this much money invested into sports because that money would serve a much greater purpose in other areas of life in my opinion.
But hey, the market dictates the logic right?