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 bzipitidoo on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:14PM
Piracy! Piracy! Piracy!
Why has no one blamed piracy for the decline in numbers? You know, cable pirates.
Then they can call for further criminalization of all forms of sharing and copying. It's a favorite ploy of the MAFIAA.