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 Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
join:2005-07-16 | reply to HiDesert
Re: Will never cut the cord Anti sports people make me laugh, you make it sound like no one but a select few care about sports, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. I know sports are unpopular here for whatever reason, but you guys are the extreme minority. Baseball is America’s past time, Football is America’s obsession. The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year, the Daytona 500 isn’t far behind. ESPN owns Monday night ratings with Monday Night Football. And here locally, 2 out 3 households are tuned to Buffalo Sabres hockey when they play with 19K people packed in the Arena during home games.
I already pay $288/month for cable from Time Warner and a $97/month to DirecTV. And that doesn’t include the fact that I subscribe to MLB Extra Innings and NHL Center Ice on cable and for the first time ever, I’ll be getting NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. A few bucks more isn’t going to mean much to me as long as I get the content I want, the price is irrelevant.
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1 edit | said by Steve Mehs:Anti sports people make me laugh, you make it sound like no one but a select few care about sports, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. I know sports are unpopular here for whatever reason, but you guys are the extreme minority. Baseball is America’s past time, Football is America’s obsession. The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year, the Daytona 500 isn’t far behind. ESPN owns Monday night ratings with Monday Night Football. And here locally, 2 out 3 households are tuned to Buffalo Sabres hockey when they play with 19K people packed in the Arena during home games.
I already pay $288/month for cable from Time Warner and a $97/month to DirecTV. And that doesn’t include the fact that I subscribe to MLB Extra Innings and NHL Center Ice on cable and for the first time ever, I’ll be getting NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. A few bucks more isn’t going to mean much to me as long as I get the content I want, the price is irrelevant.
I still firmly believe that sports should be bundled separately for the simple reason that they represent a major portion of everyone's total bill. And channels like ESPN are some the the highest carriage channels period. Somewhere between 33 percent and 50 percent of households don't watch sports. Yet somehow, the content providers like Disney can extort carriages from those that don't watch sports through unfair bundling, or carriage extortion.
If you think Sports is so popular you might be surprised just how many would downgrade their service if allowed the option to drop the sports tiers and drop their bill by another 15 to 20 dollars a month. It would be catastrophic and would put some reality on what players salaries are really worth.
I'm not so anti sports as you may think. I still watch the Lakers and Chargers when they are available OTA. I chose to cut the cord because I really feel the value is not there anymore. And if I could get cable and cut out the Disney stations and half my bill I may consider re-subbing. Yes, I do have a beef with Disney and any research into how they force high carriages on the providers will prove my point. | |
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