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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Kinda sorta! They're either canceling their sports packages or finding alternative methods of sports programming transmission.I'm not in the US but I heard ESPN is part of the base package? Does that mean people are cutting the cord?
I am in petty much the exact same situation. Plus, I don't know about you, but I'm not within range of pats home telecast. So unfortunately, I HAVE to have Sunday ticket somehow. I heard you can get it thru xbox one or ps4. I figured i could buy both for the price of 6 months of dtv. I also wonder about the dvr issue.My DTV contract is due in January. Currently looking into internet tv with Roku and Amazon so I can cut the cord. My roadblocks involve the DVR aspect of the Genie that my Bride heavily favors.
I'm not too internet savvy so I need some guidance but it is going to happen. The sooner the better.
But on a sidenote, I watched the Monday game on Channel 5. It was still an ESPN broadcast on a local channel. Can't get away from it.
There's no easy answer, especially if you aren't in the Pats TV coverage area.If you figure it out, let me know.
It's definitely a good point, but here's the lowdown. Back in 2003, I applied for and was offered a low-mid management position at ESPN. When I saw their salary offer, I almost laughed. ESPN pays their lower employees peanuts, almost literally. When I confronted them about the salary offer, the reply was that having ESPN on your resume was worth the 50% below market pay.
I know someone who worked as a programmer there. He did have student loans, but on his salary there, he couldn't afford an apartment in Bristol that wasn't in the ghetto, so he lived with his parents in Southington.
ESPN's subscriber base continues to shrink - Fortune
Matthew Ingram is usually pretty solid. His take, although he got it straight from one or more Wall Street analysts, is that ESPN is out $650 million in subscription revenue plus $250 million in ads (with little or no offsetting cost reduction, so that's straight out of pre-tax profits). He further thinks that ESPN didn't see this coming.
And he says that ESPN is a large fraction of Disney's overall perceived value. I don't know the numbers well enough to judge whether that makes sense -- but if losing $900 million from annual profit is an annoyance rather than catastrophe, then they're probably indeed making numerous billions of dollars per year ...
He further thinks that ESPN didn't see this coming.
Unfortunately, that model is used by more organizations than just ESPN.If that's the ESPN management model, to have a dramatic class distinction inside their organization, with a handful of very highly paid celebrities paired with legions of poorly paid people who do 99% of the work, then they don't really have a chance at long term success anyway. The marketplace needs to replace them; perhaps that's what is going on.
It fits that the NFL offices would build their business model to be tightly wound up with ESPN. They have a similar set of lenses and beliefs.
Unfortunately, that model is used by more organizations than just ESPN.
With one exception, when they are being the (advanced or supportive) mouthpiece of Goodell's NFL* office.Everything that comes out of there is shallow, ignorant, or misinformed.