Saturday, April 01, 2017
Falling Off a Cliff
Bloomberg Business Week has an interesting article on ESPN and cord cutting, something I've posted about before. It includes a graph that shows the subscriber numbers falling off a cliff. ESPN though appears to be doubling-down on protecting the cable bundle. Their main problem? Cost. According to that article Game of Thrones costs HBO about $100 million for a season. ESPN pays that just for one MNF game. It's hard to believe that's going to go well for ESPN in the end. They probably can't afford to give people a lower-cost option for consuming ESPN content, but ESPN is a pretty awful deal compared to... well, pretty much everything.
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Is this an April Fool's joke? (I hate this day.) I remember when "Friends" was in it's prime. I think the six of them each got $1M per episode in the final season. Very interesting times.
Ump
The original story was actually posted on 3/31.
I'm pretty sure they can afford to pay sitcom stars a vast amount of money because everything else involved costs practically nothing. No need for dragons or spaceships in an episode of Friends.
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