ESPN: WE PAID TOO MUCH FOR MONDAY NITE FOOTBALL, NOW EVERYBODY PAY UP

[gregg75]

N.Y. Times says they paid 73% more for the games than their previous deal.

..............possibility that ESPN will cite the NFL agreement to seek higher payments for
its channels when the company renews its contracts with cable and satellite companies.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/espn-strikes-deal-to-carry-monday-night-football-through-2021/

 

[KeithE4]

N.Y. Times says they paid 73% more for the games than their previous deal.

..............possibility that ESPN will cite the NFL agreement to seek higher payments for
its channels when the company renews its contracts with cable and satellite companies.

Hopefully DirecTV, Dish Network, and every cable company tells The Mickey Mouse Outfit where to stick it. MNF is not the premiere prime-time football game anymore, and hasn't been for the last few years. Sunday night on NBC is #1, so sez the NFL.

 

[mnradiofan]

N.Y. Times says they paid 73% more for the games than their previous deal.

..............possibility that ESPN will cite the NFL agreement to seek higher payments for
its channels when the company renews its contracts with cable and satellite companies.

Hopefully DirecTV, Dish Network, and every cable company tells The Mickey Mouse Outfit where to stick it. MNF is not the premiere prime-time football game anymore, and hasn't been for the last few years. Sunday night on NBC is #1, so sez the NFL.

They won't though, as they are powerless to this. #1 reason people stay with cable is for live sports. Take that away, and many, MANY will switch providers, or drop the service.

 

[KeithE4]

N.Y. Times says they paid 73% more for the games than their previous deal.

..............possibility that ESPN will cite the NFL agreement to seek higher payments for
its channels when the company renews its contracts with cable and satellite companies.

Hopefully DirecTV, Dish Network, and every cable company tells The Mickey Mouse Outfit where to stick it. MNF is not the premiere prime-time football game anymore, and hasn't been for the last few years. Sunday night on NBC is #1, so sez the NFL.

They won't though, as they are powerless to this. #1 reason people stay with cable is for live sports. Take that away, and many, MANY will switch providers, or drop the service.

Or maybe ESPN would get the message and offer their programming online. I'd pay $10 a month for it, as long as they could work out a deal with the various leagues/conferences to carry the games. There's no other reason to bother with ESPN other than the games themselves.

 

[mnradiofan]

N.Y. Times says they paid 73% more for the games than their previous deal.

..............possibility that ESPN will cite the NFL agreement to seek higher payments for
its channels when the company renews its contracts with cable and satellite companies.

Hopefully DirecTV, Dish Network, and every cable company tells The Mickey Mouse Outfit where to stick it. MNF is not the premiere prime-time football game anymore, and hasn't been for the last few years. Sunday night on NBC is #1, so sez the NFL.

They won't though, as they are powerless to this. #1 reason people stay with cable is for live sports. Take that away, and many, MANY will switch providers, or drop the service.

Or maybe ESPN would get the message and offer their programming online. I'd pay $10 a month for it, as long as they could work out a deal with the various leagues/conferences to carry the games. There's no other reason to bother with ESPN other than the games themselves.

If you have Cable, you likely are already paying close to that for all the ESPN channels, especially if you have HD and digital programming and your provider gives you espn3.com.

 

[KeithE4]

If you have Cable, you likely are already paying close to that for all the ESPN channels, especially if you have HD and digital programming and your provider gives you espn3.com.

I dropped cable when I moved almost 2 years ago. My current internet provider (Ygnition Networks, a relatively small outfit who contracts with Dish Network for "cable" services) won't pay what TMMO is asking for ESPN3. They want $5 a month per subscriber whether customers use it or not, just like cable. Ygnition says they can't justify passing that additional $5 on to every customer they have. And they're right.

 

[mgsports]

Their countdown show might go to 3 Hours.

 

[KeithE4]

Their countdown show might go to 3 Hours.

Two hours is an hour too long already.

 

[adam95]

They won't though, as they are powerless to this. #1 reason people stay with cable is for live sports. Take that away, and many, MANY will switch providers, or drop the service.

The fact that I'm a huge sports fan is the ONLY reason I have not switched exclusively to Nexflix. Many friends of mine who can live without sports have already went this route.

 

[KeithE4]

The fact that I'm a huge sports fan is the ONLY reason I have not switched exclusively to Nexflix. Many friends of mine who can live without sports have already went this route.

So am I. That's why I pay $120 a year for MLB.TV. I'd be willing to pay for the NBA and/or NHL if I was a big enough fan.

It's the college conferences that need to get it together, dump that ripoff that is CBS Sports ULive ($120 for game audio only, plus a lot of coach's shows), and get set to receive lots of money from people like me who are willing to pay for live game video. Same goes for the NFL, who needs to get it's corporate head out of DirecTV's posterior and offer Sunday Ticket to everybody.

 

[oldvnewschool]

I seriously don't think they overpaid, it's just how it's heading.

They are really paying for the future, which is streaming games online.

Now they will be able to show games on their watchespn app on phones and computers.

THAT IS THE FUTURE and ESPN is WELL AHEAD of the curve ;D

As for the lack of marquee games; I do agree,

The NFL will not put their best games on a still growing market, when they can still draw 30 million a sunday night on NBC at best.

 

[Markieo]

Which is why I dropped cable, then Dish. I don't feel like I should have to pay for a network I don't even watch!

 

[CrankyYankee]

Does anyone really need the oodles of sports channels that are squeezed into our sets via cable or satellite? There's too much sports, which, in turn, kicks up the bill
for subs. For folks like me who don't give a whiff about sports, it's a pickpocket's holiday every time we pay our bills. Where I live, we don't get a vast choice of TV over the air. Cable or satellite is necessary to get anything more than
two or so channels. I have XM Radio for reliable radio service, and I'm paying too much for the few channels I listen to with any regularity.

 

[stationless listener]

NBC Sports has been making games from SNF available online without any additional charges. So far, the quality isn't that great but it's not costing me extra for now.

http://snfallaccess.nbcsports.com/

 

[JeeperOne]

N.Y. Times says they paid 73% more for the games than their previous deal.

..............possibility that ESPN will cite the NFL agreement to seek higher payments for
its channels when the company renews its contracts with cable and satellite companies.

Hopefully DirecTV, Dish Network, and every cable company tells The Mickey Mouse Outfit where to stick it. MNF is not the premiere prime-time football game anymore, and hasn't been for the last few years. Sunday night on NBC is #1, so sez the NFL.

They won't though, as they are powerless to this. #1 reason people stay with cable is for live sports. Take that away, and many, MANY will switch providers, or drop the service.

Or maybe ESPN would get the message and offer their programming online. I'd pay $10 a month for it, as long as they could work out a deal with the various leagues/conferences to carry the games. There's no other reason to bother with ESPN other than the games themselves.

Problem is they can't do thatr with the pro sports without running afoul of the leagues (Who'd lose A FORTUNE off their online offerings if ESPN were to do something like this)

Why do you think MNF isn't on ESPN 3 ??

Cheers & 73

 

[gregg75]

That ridiculous part of your/my bill we are paying ESPN makes me feel like I am
subsidizing somone because I'm lucky to watch them one day a week. Just think
of the 80-year-old quilt maker who is getting nothing for her money (part of her
bill that goes to ESPN).

 

[KTU_Fan]

Arent MLB and NBA games on ESPN 3 if they're on ESPN?

 

[mgsports]

Know ESPN got to extend it's deal with MLB meaning allowing them to a Double Headers on Wednesday,Baseball Coast to Coast on Tuesday,MLB Live in the Afternoon's and so on. For Football Mondy NIght Countdown crew needs to be live from the game.

 

[KeithE4]

Problem is they can't do thatr with the pro sports without running afoul of the leagues (Who'd lose A FORTUNE off their online offerings if ESPN were to do something like this)

Why do you think MNF isn't on ESPN 3 ??[/quote]

That can be worked out. The NFL's Sunday Ticket deal with DirecTV doesn't affect MNF. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be either on ESPN3 or NFL.com.

MLB could work something out to allow the Sunday night ESPN game and the out-of-market Fox Saturday games to be carried on MLB.TV if they wanted to as well. MLB.TV subscribers (like myself) are already paying to watch baseball online. They'd be carrying the ESPN/Fox feeds, so that would be more exposure for the advertisers (something that they currently don't allow on feeds of local broadcasts but would be necessary for the national ones).

 

[FreddyE1977]

Memo to Roger Goodell.....you've gotten just about all the blood you can out of this golden goose.
It's gonna pass-out and start dying soon.