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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: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 01 2017, @10:37PM (2 children)
For a good time compare imported Japanese subtitled "Ninja Warrior" which is pretty enjoyable despite my Japanese being limited to one mostly forgotten semester, vs the american produced "Ninja Warrior" which is mostly human interest shitposting and commercials with occasional short interruptions of actual athletics, but certainly less than 5 minutes of actual action per hour.
It makes me wonder what American football with Japanese producers would look like. Remember American management couldn't build a car to save their lives in the 70s... maybe the 20s will do to American TV what imports did to American cars in the 70s. We can only hope.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 01 2017, @10:48PM
Considering how the answer to declining viewership has been to shrink the 42-minute-per-hour towards 38 minutes (i.e. going from 18 to 22 minutes of ads per hour, including automatically dropping frames in old reruns), I wouldn't bet on the US execs admitting that they have a real problem.
With the likes of PAI at the FCC, and the power of the **AA, The Great FireWall of Trump could become a China-like reality. Because who needs freedom when there's money to be made, and Children To Think Of?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:25AM
Well I used to think you were an old douche. Now I know you are just another 30-40 something douche. If you were old at least you'd have an excuse.