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| ESPN Loses 550K Subscribers In November |
| 2016-11-30 |
| ...and there's still one day to go! [WashingtonExaminer] ESPN reportedly lost 555,000 subscribers this month, according to sports writer Clay Travis. The drop in November for the sports media company comes right after its worst-ever month, when it lost an estimated 621,000 subscribers in October. ... The network isn't totally oblivious to the role that politics has played in its recent coverage, and it has commented publicly about the issue in the past. Whether the recent decline in subscriptions is motivated more by the supposedly political tone of its coverage or by the growing trend of Americans simply moving away from cable bundles is yet be determined. But if it's the former, and if subscriptions continue to trend downward, the network may find itself changing its tune real fast. Ima thinking it's too late for that... |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #8 Well down in Texas they refer to ESPN as ESiPN because of its shameless shilling for the texas university longhorn football team. ESiPN worked up a deal with the longhorns to carry texas university sports. The deal quickly went sideways as the university wouldn't share revenue with other schools in the conference and because of that found it hard to work around commitments made by other schools to other broadcast venues such as Fox. The end result is the longhorn network thing has soured a lot of people in the conference and in the State of Texas on ESiPN and are dropping them for other sports venues that are not so flaming biased for one school |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-11-30 16:19 |
| #7 The network isn't totally oblivious to the role that politics has played in its recent coverage, and it has commented publicly about the issue in the past. Whether the recent decline in subscriptions is motivated more by the supposedly political tone of its coverage or by the growing trend of Americans simply moving away from cable bundles is yet be determined. But if it's the former, and if subscriptions continue to trend downward, the network may find itself changing its tune real fast. BS lip service, ESPN. Suzy Gobbler was prattling on about FAKE NEWS(TM) Monday night. |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-11-30 16:02 |
| #6 ...not to mention the broadcast tax (rent seeking) open broadcast stations tack on to your satellite or cable bill. They got their 'cut' on the original ad revenue. Tell me again why they shouldn't be charged a exorbitant licensing fee to use the public bandwidth, no different than miners, loggers, or oil men tapping public land. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-11-30 15:28 |
| #5 You can also mount up an HD (Digital) Antenna to pick up local channels. You might be amazed what you can find out there. no subscription necessary. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-11-30 15:17 |
| #4 What is this ESPN thing you speak of? We got rid of our cable connection a few years ago. If we want to watch a show, we have Netflix,Amazon Prime, Hulu and a Roku box. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-11-30 13:43 |
| #3 Cut my cord years ago and don't miss it at all. Fuck you ESPN. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-11-30 13:33 |
| #2 ESPN owns cable. Cable products are bundled. If you want ESPN then you have to buy The Discovery Channel as well, but ESPN is what the customer is actually interested in 90% of the time. If the Left is killing ESPN, then they are killing cable. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-11-30 13:05 |
| #1 The prevailing logic with media outlets is that they'll double-down on the politics. Then roll over and die. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-11-30 12:30 |