ESPN makes significant talent cuts

[ITdrummer]

I'll throw my usual 2 cents in...

There are many of us in the backwoods who have no wifi option other than a major cable carrier like Comcast.

What do you mean? "no wi-fi option'. If you get internet from the cable company, you make your own "wi-fi option". wifi routers are like $50-60

[PawDawg]

What do you mean? "no wi-fi option'. If you get internet from the cable company, you make your own "wi-fi option". wifi routers are like $50-60

Sorry for the poor wording. I'll try again...

There are many of us in the backwoods who have no decent ISP options other than a major cable company like Comcast.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Sorry for the poor wording. I'll try again...

There are many of us in the backwoods who have no decent ISP options other than a major cable company like Comcast.

As most of us don't even have that -

Especially in rural unincorporated areas - Lincoln, Union, Bienville, Jackson, Claiborne, Webster, Union County, Columbia County etal

[PawDawg]

As most of us don't even have that -

Especially in rural unincorporated areas - Lincoln, Union, Bienville, Jackson, Claiborne, Webster, Union County, Columbia County etal

Just curious...do you use your land line for a backup if your satellite goes down?

[sportdawg]

AT&T is Testing Wireless Home Internet

AT&T Today announced it completed a first wave of Fixed Wireless Internet availability for rural and undeserved locations in Georgia. This new wireless internet service is part of our FCC Connect America Fund commitment to serve over 400,000 locations by the end of 2017 and over 1.1 million locations by 2020.

[PawDawg]

AT&T is Testing Wireless Home Internet

Sorry to hijack the thread about the impoverished former ESPN employees, but what do you think? Can they provided decent service through existing lines?

[Houston Techsan]

AT&T just now realized that their own DirecTV offers satellite internet service? Maybe I'm mis-remembering. Seem like they used to. Dish probably does, too. I never wanted to try it because of the rain interruption problem. If that's all you can get, fine.

I saw an article about all the new "streaming" services that really hit the nail on the head. You will still need the big guys to get fast enough speed for decent streaming.

[revf]

Letting go Brett McMurphy will hurt a lot.

He was always very knowledgeable especially when it came to G5 schools.

As for rural internet. I live in a town of less than 400 people. We have options for AT&T DSL, Toast.Net DSL (No overages), or Newwave Cable Internet.

By 2020 they should have 5G over most of the country through wireless development, and home internet may be a thing of the past.

[sportdawg]

Sorry to hijack the thread about the impoverished former ESPN employees, but what do you think? Can they provided decent service through existing lines?

I don't think this would be great for streaming - I added the link about, but it's only 10Mbps with 160 GB cap @ $60/70 month.

My household has used 161 GB and we have 18 days left on the month. We have a 1000 GB cap thru ATT Fiber.

You probably couldn't watch multiple streams simultaneously. I'm surprised CenturyLink doesn't offer anything in the area. http://www.centurylink.com/home/internet/

[marketdawg]

I read an article a few years ago forecasting the demise of ESPN as we know it. ESPN is being proactive to the inevitable revenue decrease. If you take you cable or satellite pkg and break down the cost per channel ESPN is the most expensive one. Say History channel costs you .35 ESPN costs 2.75 or something like that. Take into account that over 75% or so of the people paying for ESPN in their pkg don't watch and/or want it. The article also predicted a very near future where your cable or satellite provider goes to a pick and choose pkg and ESPN would literally be out of business.

[Tech77]

That's just a drop in the very large barrel. We cannot count on that.

AT&T is Testing Wireless Home Internet

[sportdawg]

I read an article a few years ago forecasting the demise of ESPN as we know it. ESPN is being proactive to the inevitable revenue decrease. If you take you cable or satellite pkg and break down the cost per channel ESPN is the most expensive one. Say History channel costs you .35 ESPN costs 2.75 or something like that. Take into account that over 75% or so of the people paying for ESPN in their pkg don't watch and/or want it. The article also predicted a very near future where your cable or satellite provider goes to a pick and choose pkg and ESPN would literally be out of business.

The Graph below is why these companies should form a sports only streaming.

From 2013
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/20...els-in-1-graph

[Dwayne From Minden]

Just curious...do you use your land line for a backup if your satellite goes down?

Nope, dial up is too slow and DSL is not available

[Wade_Antley]

The article also predicted a very near future where your cable or satellite provider goes to a pick and choose pkg and ESPN would literally be out of business.

I really don't understand why in 2017 this isn't possible.

I canceled my "cable" last summer. It was ballooning upwards of $200 a month and I haven't missed it. I actually hated it (I live in Canada) and can't get any channels that I want but would be more than willing to pay good money for the channels that I want.

Additionally when I'm home (Bayou D'arbonne) at my parents we can't even get cell reception without walking up the hill. Internet is only available through Direct TV satellite I think and it's horribly expensive and frustratingly slow.

[JuBru]

I disagree -

This is the first crack in the bursting of the "sports bubble" - just like we saw the bursting of the "dot.com bubble" and "mortgage bubble" and we are also seeing the beginning of the implosion of the "education bubble"...

I fully expect this to have a far reaching effect especially at the collegiate level (the only one that won't suffer is the NFL in all likelihood) -

Programs have become bloated with excess revenues from overpriced tv contracts - especially at the P5 level where costs and infrastructure improvements are directly tied to these overpriced media right fees

Left out the auto bubble.