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Message: <blockquote data-quote="topdecktiger" data-source="post: 129767516" data-attributes="member: 1459051">Yes, it does matter. Your argument is that ESPN is losing subscribers because people are unhappy with the network. That's simply not true. It's because people are dropping their cable packages for more economical alternatives. This is happing to everyone, not just ESPN.No, consumers don't have this option. Consumers of cable are presented with various pre-arranged packages. (They can't create their own packages.) Most of these packages have Disney/ESPN included. There are a few that don't. However, these are bare-bones packages. The typical cable package includes Disney/ESPN channels.FS1 doesn't charge anywhere as much as ESPN. ESPN charges $7 per month, vs. 99¢ for FS1. Here's the point. All this bluster of your is not answering the OP's question. He was asking if ESPN's content would just get spread out over other networks like FS1. Well, the answer is clearly no. At just 99¢ per subscriber, FS1 has nowhere near enough money to take over those rights from ESPN. The only way it would be possible is for the conferences to take a gigantic pay cut. That goes to the OP's other question, which was will this development affect large conferences? The answer is, it's certainly possible.For some reason, you and a couple of other posters can't seem to get it through your heads that my responses on this topic are in the context of the OP's question.None of that has anything to do with my point. You making this out to be more than it is. It's very simple. Many customers are switching to internet-based mediums, rather that traditional cable delivery. That's what's causing ESPN and other networks to lose subscribers. It's really that simple.No, the reconfigured Big 12 has no ring of plausibility. Taking the same teams ESPN already has under contract, and repackaging them into a different conference does nothing to solve the problem of losing subscribers. If ESPN goes to streaming, they could just do that now with the conferences as they already are.I said, "the phenomenon of cord cutting is because many people (particularly younger ones), find it easier and cheaper to buy alternatives to cable or satellite." This is entirely correct. (You just restated the same thing I said.) Young people who have never had cable before aren't part of the lost subscribers for ESPN. The lost subscribers are only people who used to have cable/ESPN, but then dropped it. People who have never had cable are not figured into the lost subscriber statistics that have been posted.FIOS isn't cable. The same type of packages aren't available for cable subscribers, which is the actual topic of discussion.</blockquote>

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