How will ESPN's future affect College Football?

[Goldbug]

Here's an article written by Clay Travis for Outkick. It's a long article with lots of statistics but bottom line ESPN seems to be heading for seriously troubled times. We seem to be living in a Golden Age of college football right now with unlimited amounts of money being thrown around but what happens if things ever change to the degree this article is talking about?

ESPN Lost 8 Million Subscribers in 2021, 10% of its overall subscriber base

 

[fordman84]

Here's an article written by Clay Travis for Outkick. It's a long article with lots of statistics but bottom line ESPN seems to be heading for seriously troubled times. We seem to be living in a Golden Age of college football right now with unlimited amounts of money being thrown around but what happens if things ever change to the degree this article is talking about?

ESPN Lost 8 Million Subscribers in 2021, 10% of its overall subscriber base

Feels like we have been hearing this same concern about CFB, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, etc for a while. somehow they keep finding ways to spend more and more money. I think the TV networks are the ones that are most in trouble, the over the air ones. ESPN could always run their own streaming app and pocket all of the revenue instead of relying on cable providers.

 

[Thiefery]

Clay has been telling us that ESPN was on it's deathbed for years now. Whitlock would echo the same thing, yet ESPN is still here.

 

[Knight&Day]

 

[Deep Creek]

Doesn’t it depend more on how Disney feels about it? Aren’t some corps willing to subsidize divisions to certain levels…at least for a while?

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

I'd buy the MLB and NHL network if it wasn't so expensive and supplied most if not all games. But these networks want too much money imo for what you get. Which is a deal breaker.

I will say that I do like a lot of the 30 for 30s though.

 

[huskers1217]

Here's an article written by Clay Travis for Outkick. It's a long article with lots of statistics but bottom line ESPN seems to be heading for seriously troubled times. We seem to be living in a Golden Age of college football right now with unlimited amounts of money being thrown around but what happens if things ever change to the degree this article is talking about?

ESPN Lost 8 Million Subscribers in 2021, 10% of its overall subscriber base

Once again. Clay Travis is a political hack that sometimes moonlights as an ignorant sports person. Fuck him. It’s not about sports it’s his war on Jizzney. ESPN subscriber loss is from people cutting cable

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Once again. Clay Travis is a political hack that sometimes moonlights as an ignorant sports person. Fuck him. It’s not about sports it’s his war on Jizzney. ESPN subscriber loss is from people cutting cable

Yeah that is what he said it was from. However he explains how and why it will continue and how streaming actually hurts them more than helps.

Seems like you're hating on a guy that likes boobs for no real reason.

 

[ericd7633]

ESPN+ is probably the future of ESPN. I've been a subscriber of that for about the past 2 years. Haven't felt a need for it during football season, but there have been some pretty high-profile college basketball games exclusively on ESPN+. I'd expect we get to a point where some football content starts showing up on there, especially when they take over the SEC package. Probably not high-profile games to start, but I think we'll get to the point where we see every SEC team have a game or 2 on ESPN+.

ESPN isn't going anywhere. Despite them losing cable subscribers, they are making a shit load of money on ESPN+. They are making 2-3 billion a year on it.

 

[fordman84]

Once again. Clay Travis is a political hack that sometimes moonlights as an ignorant sports person. Fuck him. It’s not about sports it’s his war on Jizzney. ESPN subscriber loss is from people cutting cable

and robusting their message boards!

 

[fordman84]

ESPN+ is probably the future of ESPN. I've been a subscriber of that for about the past 2 years. Haven't felt a need for it during football season, but there have been some pretty high-profile college basketball games exclusively on ESPN+. I'd expect we get to a point where some football content starts showing up on there, especially when they take over the SEC package. Probably not high-profile games to start, but I think we'll get to the point where we see every SEC team have a game or 2 on ESPN+.

ESPN isn't going anywhere. Despite them losing cable subscribers, they are making a shit load of money on ESPN+. They are making 2-3 billion a year on it.

Correct. If they would invest a little money into ESPN+ to give it a better UI and more user friendly with streaming devices they could really have a top notch product.

 

[ericd7633]

Correct. If they would invest a little money into ESPN+ to give it a better UI and more user friendly with streaming devices they could really have a top notch product.

I've been pretty happy overall with it. But I'm the exact demo they are looking to target. We have it through the Fire Stick and that hasn't really been an issue. I also have the app on my phone. The ESPN app has gotten so much better in the last couple years through the Fire Stick.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

When everything goes to streaming, I’ll start listening to games on the radio.

 

[fordman84]

I've been pretty happy overall with it. But I'm the exact demo they are looking to target. We have it through the Fire Stick and that hasn't really been an issue. I also have the app on my phone. The ESPN app has gotten so much better in the last couple years through the Fire Stick.

I've never used the app. I use the PS5 or Apple TV. Not being able to flip channels wears me out.

 

[ericd7633]

I've never used the app. I use the PS5 or Apple TV. Not being able to flip channels wears me out.

When you're watching on the Fire Stick, if you click on a game, and then it goes to commercial, if you hit the down arrow on the remote, the list of games comes across the bottom of the screen so you can select that game and pick it up right away. It's like watching on cable. That's recently a new feature. It's certainly helped the viewing experience.

 

[fordman84]

When you're watching on the Fire Stick, if you click on a game, and then it goes to commercial, if you hit the down arrow on the remote, the list of games comes across the bottom of the screen so you can select that game and pick it up right away. It's like watching on cable. That's recently a new feature. It's certainly helped the viewing experience.

I'll have to check that out, usually just flip back and forth between one system to the other to skip commercials. But my other big complaint is that even though I'm signed in and I used the website to set my favorite teams and leagues, there isn't any rhyme or reason on the "top events" it shows me. I don't care about pre-recorded soccer games or anything like that. I have been using ESPN+ exclusively for college baseball games, since every freaking one is on there somehow. So I have to filter down to the College baseball section and then scroll until I find the A&M game.

 

[ericd7633]

I'll have to check that out, usually just flip back and forth between one system to the other to skip commercials. But my other big complaint is that even though I'm signed in and I used the website to set my favorite teams and leagues, there isn't any rhyme or reason on the "top events" it shows me. I don't care about pre-recorded soccer games or anything like that. I have been using ESPN+ exclusively for college baseball games, since every freaking one is on there somehow. So I have to filter down to the College baseball section and then scroll until I find the A&M game.

Yeah, I agree that's definitely a problem when you want to find one specific game and its on espn+. It might take a while to find it because there are another 50 games on espn+ too. I had that issue trying to watch the NCAA men's volleyball tournament. It's definitely an inconvenience.

 

[Thiefery]

I'll have to check that out, usually just flip back and forth between one system to the other to skip commercials. But my other big complaint is that even though I'm signed in and I used the website to set my favorite teams and leagues, there isn't any rhyme or reason on the "top events" it shows me. I don't care about pre-recorded soccer games or anything like that. I have been using ESPN+ exclusively for college baseball games, since every freaking one is on there somehow. So I have to filter down to the College baseball section and then scroll until I find the A&M game.

yeah they can make it easier to find the games you want for sure.. and I'm confident that they will get it right soon.. If you started out with them 3 years ago and see it now..it's a complete 180

 

[SoonerC]

I've been pretty happy overall with it. But I'm the exact demo they are looking to target. We have it through the Fire Stick and that hasn't really been an issue. I also have the app on my phone. The ESPN app has gotten so much better in the last couple years through the Fire Stick.

I just signed up and can’t get it to work on either of my fire sticks. Technical support is a joke. Did you have any trouble?

 

[Kburjr]

ESPN needs to get into the NIL game and ensure that the best players appear only on ESPN