FS1 progress

[Coleman]

Demand drives subscription fees, plain and simple, and in this case, demand ≠ ratings.  Demand comes from people whose cable/sat decision is influenced by the availability of a particular channel even if they might not watch a material portion of that channel's programming.

Take AMC for instance... there are people out there who tune into AMC only to watch the new episodes of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Walking Dead, whatever.  Now take away those shows, and AMC's daily ratings suck royally because a significant portion of their audience only tunes in 13 times a year.  That's 13 hours, or less than two-tenths of 1% of their entire programming year, that they score big ratings - a mere blip on average daily ratings numbers if you don't have anything else to draw millions of eyeballs every day.  But if, for example, DirecTV eliminated AMC from their lineup, you would have hundreds of thousands of households, perhaps millions, switching to cable (or vice versa) simply based on their "need" to have AMC.

That's what drives subscription fees... having that one program, event, or series - even if it only airs 13 times a year - that is going to cause consumers to change their mind if you take the channel away from them, not whatever programming you use to fill the other 8,747 hours of the year.

I agree with this. I don't think you need to have high ratings 12 hours a day. But you still need to have high ratings for those big events.

I think we are splitting hairs.

[brandx]

I agree with this. I don't think you need to have high ratings 12 hours a day. But you still need to have high ratings for those big events.

I think we are splitting hairs.

Non subscription fees still account for over 40% of ESPN's revenue, so I would consider that quite substantial. And you need the ratings in order to get advertising revenue.

[esotericmindguy]

See I much perfer Fox Sports Live. Jay and Dan are so much better then any of those scrubs they have doing sportscnter.

100% correct. It's not close. However, when they break away to "experts" Sportscenter blows Fox away. Donovan McNabb and Gary Peyton are dreadful, and they talk about every sport. I don't want to listen to McNabb break down basketball.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Non subscription fees still account for over 40% of ESPN's revenue, so I would consider that quite substantial. And you need the ratings in order to get advertising revenue.

With the Dish deal announced two days ago and Directv deal next, the sub fees are going to increase quite a bit

[Benny B]

Non subscription fees still account for over 40% of ESPN's revenue, so I would consider that quite substantial. And you need the ratings in order to get advertising revenue.

And if you don't have a channel, you can't get the ratings.

[WarriorFan]

I doubt Raf is an expensive fs1 employee. ESPN didnt renew his contract and let him walk.
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Because he's brain-dead. 

[Atticus]

100% correct. It's not close. However, when they break away to "experts" Sportscenter blows Fox away. Donovan McNabb and Gary Peyton are dreadful, and they talk about every sport. I don't want to listen to McNabb break down basketball.

McNabb played high school ball with Antoine Walker at Mount Carmel in Chicago. I think he also played 2 or 3 seasons in college.

[77ncaachamps]

I can't watch FS1 online but I can watch ESPN3 online.

I don't have cable and haven't seen an MU game this whole season without heading to a bar, restaurant, or a buddy's house.

Homer and Mac are just suiting me fine.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

100% correct. It's not close. However, when they break away to "experts" Sportscenter blows Fox away. Donovan McNabb and Gary Peyton are dreadful, and they talk about every sport. I don't want to listen to McNabb break down basketball.

McNabb knows basketball:

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[ZiggysFryBoy]

I found a similar chart for Fox Sports revenue projections in 2013. I think we were all forgetting about their biggest cash cow...

Click the image below to enlarge.

Nicely played Love House.