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Author Topic: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte  (Read 11897 times)

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2015, 01:12:27 PM »
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2015/03/25/are-you-willing-to-pay-36-per-month-for-espn/


I would rather that be the case and people that don't want ESPN not be forced to pay $6-8 a month.  I am a sports fan, but would rather save the $6-8 and miss out on ESPN content.  The price just isn't worth it.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2015, 01:12:44 PM »
How much for the cookin' and travel channels?
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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2015, 01:26:20 PM »
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2015/03/25/are-you-willing-to-pay-36-per-month-for-espn/




Is this the exact same guy that was quoted in 4-5 news stories which you posted a few months ago, as individual, separate reports?

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2015, 02:50:16 PM »
Didn't Sling TV already set the price at $20/mo?

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2015, 02:52:47 PM »
Didn't Sling TV already set the price at $20/mo?

Yep, including many other channels (CNN, TNT, TBS, History and Disney among them).

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2015, 03:17:02 PM »
$36 per month for ESPN? Hahaha. No thanks. I barely watch that network now. I've curtailed my sports viewing a lot of the past few years. Doubt I'd miss the "WWL" too much.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2015, 03:25:02 PM »
Didn't Sling TV already set the price at $20/mo?

Not by itself.  You pay for the bundle.  It keeps prices down.  I'm talking A LA CARTE, which so many people say they want.....until they don't want it when the economics are built into it.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2015, 07:34:44 PM by ChicosBailBonds »

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2015, 04:24:06 PM »
So where has ESPN announced the $36 price?

I have yet to see it.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2015, 04:31:10 PM »
Not buy itself.  You pay for the bundle.  It keeps prices down.  I'm talking A LA CARTE, which so many people say they want.....until they don't want it when the economics are built into it.

Well, this is just basic economics then, isn't it?

ESPN has to charge $36 to make a profit, people don't subscribe and watch, so ESPN can't pay as much for it's content.

Am I missing something?

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2015, 05:08:11 PM »
I gotta figure ESPN is pricing it so high that zero people would purchase to make a point.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2015, 06:08:12 PM »
I gotta figure ESPN is pricing it so high that zero people would purchase to make a point.

I haven't seen anywhere that ESPN pricing will be that high.

Using some complex mathematical formulas, analyst Michael Nathanson arrived at some interesting per-subscriber price projections for major cable networks operating in a world where channels get paid based more purely on the amount of people who actually watch them.

In other words, it will not cost $36 a month. Instead, it is more of the crap that Chicos throws at the wall.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2015, 07:13:35 PM »
Not buy itself.  You pay for the bundle.  It keeps prices down.  I'm talking A LA CARTE, which so many people say they want.....until they don't want it when the economics are built into it.

So you agree. ESPN would never launch a la carte at that price.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2015, 07:35:49 PM by rocky_warrior »

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2015, 09:48:31 PM »
That would kill the ESPN contracts for the big conferences!!!
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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2015, 09:49:59 PM »
So you agree. ESPN would never launch a la carte at that price.

Don't be silly. Supply and demand works for everything in the universe except cable bills.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2015, 07:15:46 AM »
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Don't be silly. Supply and demand works for everything in the universe except cable bills.

We all demand to pay $12 a month for equipment leases, only to be told upon cancellation that you can toss it all because they don't want it back.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2015, 07:32:12 AM »
We all demand to pay $12 a month for equipment leases, only to be told upon cancellation that you can toss it all because they don't want it back.

Not sure how that relates to my joke, but sounds like another reason to ditch cable...

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2015, 11:35:21 AM »
Well, this is just basic economics then, isn't it?

ESPN has to charge $36 to make a profit, people don't subscribe and watch, so ESPN can't pay as much for it's content.

Am I missing something?


Just providing helpful information on what a la carte is going to cost since it continues to be the "rage" of some folks.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2015, 12:19:44 PM »
Just providing helpful information on what a la carte is going to cost since it continues to be the "rage" of some folks.

I still want ala carte. Even if ESPN costs $100 per month.

I don't think consumers need to subsidize a bunch of stuff they don't use/watch. My mom doesn't watch ESPN, so she wouldn't subscribe.

If they went full ala cart, ESPN would likely have to adjust their business model because they can't keep paying billions of dollars for television rights and just pass the costs onto the cable providers, who in turn just spread the costs out incrementally amongst a lot of people who don't even use that product.

It's UnAmerican. It's like entertainment Communism. I won't stand for it, sir.


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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2015, 01:21:26 PM »
I still want ala carte. Even if ESPN costs $100 per month.

I don't think consumers need to subsidize a bunch of stuff they don't use/watch. My mom doesn't watch ESPN, so she wouldn't subscribe.

If they went full ala cart, ESPN would likely have to adjust their business model because they can't keep paying billions of dollars for television rights and just pass the costs onto the cable providers, who in turn just spread the costs out incrementally amongst a lot of people who don't even use that product.

It's UnAmerican. It's like entertainment Communism. I won't stand for it, sir.



Well said, this is my view also.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2015, 02:48:22 PM »
I still want ala carte. Even if ESPN costs $100 per month.

I don't think consumers need to subsidize a bunch of stuff they don't use/watch. My mom doesn't watch ESPN, so she wouldn't subscribe.

If they went full ala cart, ESPN would likely have to adjust their business model because they can't keep paying billions of dollars for television rights and just pass the costs onto the cable providers, who in turn just spread the costs out incrementally amongst a lot of people who don't even use that product.

It's UnAmerican. It's like entertainment Communism. I won't stand for it, sir.



As far as your premise, I agree 100%

But, we have no idea what ESPN will charge for a la carte service. It certainly won't be $36.

Well, unless every cable and Sat company goes out of business. The $36 pricing was based on a hypothetical that cable companies didn't exist. It is based on no reality that I know of.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2015, 07:32:45 PM »
Didn't Sling TV already set the price at $20/mo?

Ouch


http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/5/8348885/sling-tv-ncaa-finals-problems-watching


That's with only 100K customers, too. 

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2015, 08:05:58 PM »
Ouch


http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/5/8348885/sling-tv-ncaa-finals-problems-watching


That's with only 100K customers, too. 

Is the NC on CBS? Amazed that last weekend and Saturday were on TBS.

A couple bars around here should send their thanks to CBS for not screening it on broadcast.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2015, 09:15:29 PM »
I still want ala carte. Even if ESPN costs $100 per month.

I don't think consumers need to subsidize a bunch of stuff they don't use/watch. My mom doesn't watch ESPN, so she wouldn't subscribe.

If they went full ala cart, ESPN would likely have to adjust their business model because they can't keep paying billions of dollars for television rights and just pass the costs onto the cable providers, who in turn just spread the costs out incrementally amongst a lot of people who don't even use that product.

It's UnAmerican. It's like entertainment Communism. I won't stand for it, sir.



You, sir, are a principled capitalist and I salute you. The "Chico Way" - free enterprise for the poor, crony capitalism or corporate welfare/socialism for the rich and powerful is morally bankrupt to anyone with a brain and a heart.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2015, 07:49:04 AM »
Amazed that last weekend and Saturday were on TBS.


Indeed .. what was that all about?  FF games on TBS? 

I guess they wanted fewer people watching.

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« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2015, 09:24:15 AM »
Indeed .. what was that all about?  FF games on TBS? 

I guess they wanted fewer people watching.

Kentucky-Wisconsin was the most watched Final Four game in 22 years.
Duke-Michigan State had a better overnight rating than any Final Four game in a decade.
So, putting the games on TBS doesn't seem to be hurting viewership.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/05/media/final-four-tv-ratings/

I suspect CBS figures that people who want to watch the game are going to make the effort to find it, whatever channel it may be on. And they're more likely to draw a larger share of those who aren't watching the game by airing CSI-Waukesha or NCIS-Naperville on the mother ship than reruns of Big Bang Theory on TBS.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2015, 10:24:11 AM »
Not surprised .. March Madness' popularity is always increasing .. but .. plenty of cord-cutters out there / people without Cable.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2015, 02:51:42 PM »
When will webtv be ready for primetime?  Sling said outage only impacted 1,000 customers.  That's pretty damning that only 1,000 takes to tip it.


We are working on this stuff every day, but there are just so many things that can go wrong outside the normal MVPD business where it is your own network (cable or fiber) or your own satellite.  Relying on a 3rd party connection, your device may or may not be up to snuff, etc

Will be very interesting to see if HBO Go \ HBO Now can pull it off next week without crashing.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #28 on: April 13, 2015, 03:43:48 PM »
Indeed .. what was that all about?  FF games on TBS? 

I guess they wanted fewer people watching.

That was part of the deal when Turner and CBS went in together a few years ago in a joint bid.  Turner received the rights to the Final Four in some years.

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Re: $36 a month for ESPN only a la carte
« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2015, 03:44:30 PM »
More issues with SlingTV and HBO Go

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/sling-tv-stumbles-during-hbos-game-of-thrones-premiere-as-customers-report-roku-app-issues/

HBO Now, off to a good start.  MLB BAM, who does their site, is usually pretty good.

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« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2015, 04:03:17 PM »
MLB BAM?