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    ESPN streaming

    http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/...n-a-few-years/

    In a few years, ESPN will likely be a channel that cable-ditching consumers can buy directly as a streaming-only option, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC Monday.

    “If we end up seeing more erosion in the so-called multichannel bundle (cable or satellite TV packages), quality will win out and popularity will win out,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” adding the ESPN-only option will not happen in the next five years.

    “Five years out, I don’t think you see significant change. But I think eventually ESPN becomes a business that is sold directly to consumers. We’ll use their information to customize the product. I think there’s inevitability to that, but I don’t think it’s right around the corner,” he said.
    Time to start writing Iger to get moving faster.

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    I guess that seals ESPN (and maybe ABC affiliate networks as well) showing up on the PS4 via Playstation Vue. This must happen faster.

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    Yep, I would pay for ESPN only. A la carte can't happen fast enough.

    Lousy TV channels that don't have good content should be shitting themselves.

    I'd pay for ESPN, the big 4, USA, HBO (although you can buy online now, so w/e), AMC.

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    ESPN is trash. If they didn't have MNF i would never have to watch it and that would be glorious.

    it would be super cool if idiots like all of you would stop paying for it so that they stop employing people like Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless instead of Bill Simmons. They have gotten to the point as a company where the bottom line comes first and informative quality content comes second. They would rather pay trolls than pay talent.

    I mean shit the only reason they got rid of Cowherd a week early is cuz he had turned down the extension. If he had reupped I am sure everything would be fine! These guys can't pay trolls/racists/homophobes/misogynists enough!

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    I only watch sports on ESPN, nothing else.

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    If you watch ESPN for anything other than live sports you are fucking up. Actually I concede that College Game Day is pretty fun. So there's that.

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    ok good i was worried you guys forgot about college football on ESPN

    but yeah you can get everything else you need from the ticker on the bottom then call it a day

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    Quote Originally Posted by tyven View Post
    Stephen A Smith
    Why do you hate black people?

    And yes College GameDay is awesome.

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    I think I watch MNF and that's it at this point. Even stopped watching ath and pti a while ago