ESPN+ subscriptions are getting a price increase on August 13th

[USCGMCK]

Price increase in August, what gets started up in August/September?

Well as soon as all the conferences agreed to put football games on an extra pay channel, the price goes up. If the roll out works rest assured Di$ney and E$pn will price it up again. Look as I have said before its only $5.99 a month now $6.99 only a dollar but those things start to add up with streaming cost,  wifi cost, cable/satellite cost and don't forget the sports package cost. Di$ney/E$pn will do anything for a buck. They know the formula for how many drop services vs how many add in order to make a profit. Don't get me wrong I love profit and am not against it. I know the universities are suffering a huge shortfall from last year and looks like the fans are the ones to cover all of it.

If this works this year will they then make bowl games on E $PN+ a pay for view like the MMA trial?

Just asking, for a friend.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/espn-2b-subscriptions-are-getting-a-price-increase-on-august-13th/ar-AAM40yu?ocid=uxbndlbing

GO GAMECOCKS!

 

[Spur's Addiction]

ESPN is hurting, though Disney as a whole is obviously not. ESPN has been one of (if not the) most expensive channels for cable companies to carry. And they relied on ton of non-sports watching people to subsidize their business because it was included in pretty much all standard cable packages. Now with people leaving traditional cable in droves, moving to streaming options, they are feeling the pinch big time. Plus they overextended themselves with all these crazy deals with SEC and other leagues. 

The good part about these services is that they are easy to cancel. So subscribe during football season (Aug -Dec) then drop it for the rest of the year. 

 

[USCGMCK]

Spur yes to all you wrote.

Did some follow up research Bloomberg states in April E$PN + reported 13.8 million subscribers, so lets do a little math. First lets assume 1.8 million pay annually and the balance 12 million pay monthly.

The $1. monthly up-charge will generate $12M a month x 12 months = $144M annually

The $69.99 annual x 1.8M = $125,982,000 (conferences get % ?)

The $6.99 X 12M a month x 12 months will generate $83,800,000.00 (conferences get % ?)

So if my first grade math skills are correct the total without any drops or adds will be for the first year $209,782,000.00 (conferences get % ?) assuming they don't raise the price again.

Somebody please check my math, can this be right? With only 13.8M subscribers the overall pool could be 3 or 4 times the current number.

 

[kingofnerf]

I am still getting by on a 6MB pipe at the house and I'm waiting to see how the FB team does.

I would probably want to upgrade my bandwidth to 20MB and look at streaming options when Beamer gets us back on track.

I am using powered HD antennas on both my TVs and the local broadcasts are pretty good around Columbia.

It would be nice if ESPN would do more traditional local broadcasts instead of cable/streaming broadcasts.