ColoradoHusk Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 $36/month is too much year round. I might during during college football season. I would like to see this fail and trickle through everything. It's mentioned earlier in the thread that they pay $6B for rights. That in turn helps pay the huge salaries of players and coaches. I would like to see those salaries drop and TV rights made more affordable. The average MLB salary is around $4M. NBA (smaller rosters) is $4.9M. Football is around $2M, and hockey is $2.5. These aren't the stars, this is the average. I can only think of one major pro sports event I've been to in about 10 years, because the ticket prices are just too high. But many sell out so I guess they will stay high until more people have had enough. Get off my lawn. That was the ultimate old-man post ever. Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Interesting thought though. If ESPN and cable "tank", and the money disappears, does that start a domino effect of less money for coaches, less money for tv contracts, less money for apparel deals, cheaper ticket prices, etc.? I'm an idealist for sure, but I've always thought that the solution to the, "The players deserve to be paid because people are making billions off of them" argument is to take away the billions from the equation, not to add more money to it. That would not, at all, be a bad thing imo. Quote Link to comment
Minnesota_husker Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 ESPN does that and they lose a lot of viewers who arent willing to pay. Less viewers means less money from companies. Less viewers mean some major sports possibly go over to Fox sports/NBC Sports or other sports channels that arent extra. ESPN still makes money, but i think long term it could really hurt them. I am a sports nut, but ESPN is not worth 36/a month to me. I am very close to dropping cable in general. Quote Link to comment
icedavis Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Less viewers mean some major sports possibly go over to Fox sports/NBC Sports or other sports channels that arent extra. [in my best Jeff Goldblum voice] Aaahhhhh yes but wouldn't the other networks fall under the same conundrum? One network moving to a subscription model and the others generally follow. They just have less skin in the game at the moment. So those sports may see a benefit to move but it would in theory just delay the inevitable. It would buy some time for the leagues to find revenue models that fit and succeed within the new subscription models. Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It would make me absolutely sick to my stomach paying a specific charge to ESPN to see their programing when I know they then turn around and give that money to conferences like SEC and schools like Texas and clearly pimp those programs. But, there are enough Husker games on those channels that I would not want to miss them. Quote Link to comment
Red Five Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It would make me absolutely sick to my stomach paying a specific charge to ESPN to see their programing when I know they then turn around and give that money to conferences like SEC and schools like Texas and clearly pimp those programs. But, there are enough Husker games on those channels that I would not want to miss them. If you have cable/dish,, you are paying ~$6/month right now to ESPN to see them turn around and give that money to conferences like the SEC and schools like Texas. Quote Link to comment
ColoradoHusk Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It would make me absolutely sick to my stomach paying a specific charge to ESPN to see their programing when I know they then turn around and give that money to conferences like SEC and schools like Texas and clearly pimp those programs. But, there are enough Husker games on those channels that I would not want to miss them. If you have cable/dish,, you are paying ~$6/month right now to ESPN to see them turn around and give that money to conferences like the SEC and schools like Texas. Plus, the Big 10 gets paid by ESPN, too. Yes, the Big 10 has the BTN, but ESPN pays the conference plenty of cash for the rights to their football and basketball games. Quote Link to comment
Husker66 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I hate ESecPN dont ever watch it anymore except for a game only. its terrible. .... 1/2 hour of ESPN SEC day,....I mean Game Day, is too much haven't turned it on 7 months.................and wont for another few months Quote Link to comment
Blackshirt96 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 SlingTV includes ESPN & ESPN 2 & it is only $20 per month, $5 more to get all the ESPN sports channels. Why pay more for just ESPN? http://www.techhive.com/article/2909572/sling-tv-channel-guide-all-the-programming-and-all-the-restrictions-all-in-one-chart.html Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 $36/ month - no BTW how much would a length of coaxial cable cost, say from my house to my neighbors house. Quote Link to comment
Blackshirt96 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 $36/ month - no BTW how much would a length of coaxial cable cost, say from my house to my neighbors house. or just get a Roku & ask someone if they will let you use their cable account. Thanks dad for the free ESPN. Quote Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 It would make me absolutely sick to my stomach paying a specific charge to ESPN to see their programing when I know they then turn around and give that money to conferences like SEC and schools like Texas and clearly pimp those programs. But, there are enough Husker games on those channels that I would not want to miss them. If you have cable/dish,, you are paying ~$6/month right now to ESPN to see them turn around and give that money to conferences like the SEC and schools like Texas. Plus, the Big 10 gets paid by ESPN, too. Yes, the Big 10 has the BTN, but ESPN pays the conference plenty of cash for the rights to their football and basketball games. We'll see. Hopefully the bottom doesn't drop out before the B1G contracts are done. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Since I live outside of the B1G footprint, I have to pay $9.90 for BTN in the sports package. Unfortunately I get the SEC network, too. Quote Link to comment
mnhusker Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 No I would not pay this, of course I wonder what USA, TNT, Discovery ect. would need to charge if left to stand alone. If it were unbundled I wonder how much value future contracts would have for schools and teams. The current values do seem to be a bit out of line with reality. Quote Link to comment
simplekin Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I pay 20 bucks a month for Sling TV. ESPN, ESPN 2,AMC, TNT, TBS, History 1 & 2, IFC and a bunch of others. You can pay an extra 5 bucks for the sports package that includes ESPN U and some others. I just stream it right thru my Xbox One. The quality is hit and miss sometimes, but imo totally worth not having cable as much as I watch TV. Google it. Sling TV. Quote Link to comment
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