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ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 01 2017, @11:58AM   
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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• Re:False dichotomy (Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:44PM

  by isostatic (365) on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:44PM (#590684) Journal

  This is an argument that's been raging on this site for decades:

  https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24079&cid=2605409 [slashdot.org]

  by _ganja_ ( 179968 ) on Friday November 23, 2001 @09:44PM (#2605409) Homepage

  I'd never thought I'd see the day when a geek site was arguing if football or rugby players are "harder".

  Of course I hope you understand that in order to maintain ballance in the universe there are two prop forwards sitting in a bar drinking Jolt and arguing if the Cube will kick the ass of the Xbox.

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