I'm low-tech, and I love cable . . . . go to sleep watching the SEC network, etc., etc.
Cutting the cable, or cord, as they call it, allows lots of people to save money on their programming.
It has been suggested that the tendency will cost the SEC in the long run, because ESPN will not be able to sustain the Billion dollar cost of the SEC Network and other TV rights paid to SEC schools.
So here's my question in detail: the cameras at the SEC games have "ESPN" written on them, usually, unless (I suppose) CBS is airing the game (and then CBS pays lots of money to the SEC schools for its weekly game). If ESPN controls 90% of the rights to the games, do not folks using a higher tech means of watching have to pay something to ESPN to watch the games? Can't ESPN prevent someone who has cut the cable/cord from watching SEC games it is producing/airing?
Are folks who are cutting the cable losing out on lots of sports related content?
Frankly, I'm so far out in the country that I do not have (yet) the options suburbanites have in getting rid of high dollar cable, but it looks like ESPN could effectively monetize anything that it owns, so long as there is a paying demand.
Cutting the cable, or cord, as they call it, allows lots of people to save money on their programming.
It has been suggested that the tendency will cost the SEC in the long run, because ESPN will not be able to sustain the Billion dollar cost of the SEC Network and other TV rights paid to SEC schools.
So here's my question in detail: the cameras at the SEC games have "ESPN" written on them, usually, unless (I suppose) CBS is airing the game (and then CBS pays lots of money to the SEC schools for its weekly game). If ESPN controls 90% of the rights to the games, do not folks using a higher tech means of watching have to pay something to ESPN to watch the games? Can't ESPN prevent someone who has cut the cable/cord from watching SEC games it is producing/airing?
Are folks who are cutting the cable losing out on lots of sports related content?
Frankly, I'm so far out in the country that I do not have (yet) the options suburbanites have in getting rid of high dollar cable, but it looks like ESPN could effectively monetize anything that it owns, so long as there is a paying demand.