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Originally Posted by Solecismic
Let's say ESPN costs $30/month - twice Netflix, right (I've never been a Netflix subscriber). How many sports fans will pay that? Will that generate the same total revenue that forcing everyone to pay $15/month generates? Not to mention the additional cost of marketing and putting together a secure and useful app.
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Best I could tell, at least a huge chunk of the Southeast. My feed had a number of people downright frantic when they woke up & it wasn't there (I was surprised by how many were YTTV subs tbh).
And of the ones I saw a resolution of, 4 out of 5 had changed providers before the lockout was even resolved.
If ESPN ever loses their near monopoly on college football, they'll be in serious trouble I think. But until then, they can get away with just about anything.