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    Warning ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

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    CUSAbbs Retweeted Eric Jackson
    ESPN buying Fox regionals. Hey bb @espn

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    Faber says Disney will get Fox regional sports networks as part of the deal (but NOT FS1)





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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Matt Sarzyniak@mattsarz 17m17 minutes agoMore



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    Big vertical integration could occur w/standalone ESPN Plus app.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

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    BREAKING: Walt Disney Co. & 21st Century Fox closing in on deal that could come as soon as next week; enterprise value for 21st Century Fox assets seen above $60 billion - sources

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

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    John Ourand Retweeted Eric Jackson
    Source says Murdoch has not been high on the RSNs for several years. Same old media story: rights fees rising at a faster rate than affiliate revenue.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Some time this year ATT bought Root Sports which was a local sports channel here in Houston.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Quote Originally Posted by Houston Techsan View Post
    Some time this year ATT bought Root Sports which was a local sports channel here in Houston.
    Root Sports is a subsidiary of DirecTV which was bought by AT&T

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Quote Originally Posted by sportdawg View Post
    Root Sports is a subsidiary of DirecTV which was bought by AT&T
    Thanks. I didn't know that. The Astros and Rockets had moved their games there from Fox Sports SW.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    I knew AT&T owned DirecTV but did not notice exactly when Root changed its name to ATTSN.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing 10m10 minutes agoMore



    What will the local Fox Sports Nets add to ESPN? A whole lot http://dlvr.it/Q4dknR

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Quote Originally Posted by Houston Techsan View Post
    I knew AT&T owned DirecTV but did not notice exactly when Root changed its name to ATTSN.
    Looks like 7/14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_SportsNet

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    BREAKING: Disney buying big chunk of 21st Century Fox in $52.4B deal, bringing together film studios and growing overseas.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    Quote Originally Posted by sportdawg View Post
    Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing 10m10 minutes agoMore



    What will the local Fox Sports Nets add to ESPN? A whole lot http://dlvr.it/Q4dknR
    Some of the assumptions in this story are off base. A few have some validity. You can also tell he doesn't really know what he's talking about when he talks about the possibility of a "regional version of College Gameday in SEC Country." Yeah, it's called the SEC Network. It's as if he's never seen it on a Saturday morning in the fall or knows that ESPN has a stake in it.

    What I would love to know is what the fine print looks like in some of the Fox RSN agreements with local market schools and professional teams. Is there some type of standard language that would allow a buyer of a Fox RSN to walk away from an agreement in the event the RSN was sold? ESPN would likely want to hold on to many of those deals, but they would also love to walk away from others.

    There is no way ESPN wants to pay as much for third tier rights to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State sports as Fox was paying. In the next few years what type of impact could this have on the Big 12 or Texas' Longhorn Network. Because ESPN isn't going to want to throw that type of cash around it's also going to take another player out of the big bidding on some local rights agreements. They'll drive the number being negotiated way down.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    This deal also confirms something that people really knowledgeable with Disney's finances have been saying about ESPN for the past several years. You've seen the best reporting in Sports Business Daily. Cord Cutters have put margin pressure on ESPN, but the network isn't going away. This deal confirms that belief.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16...rupert-murdoch

    For the past couple years, ESPN has been stuck with a seemingly unsolvable problem: It is on the hook for expensive sports deals that keep getting more expensive. At the same time, its subscriber base — and the revenue that generates from subscription fees and ad sales — has been melting.

    ESPN’s proposed solution is a surprising one: It is going to put itself on the hook for even more expensive sports deals.

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    Re: ESPN (Disney) in talks to buy parts of FOX including FSN Regionals

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/s...ox-sports.html

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    The average MLB team generates more viewing on its RSN than the top ten primetime shows combined in the same market.

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