{"id":2672,"date":"2017-06-04T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2017-06-04T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:22","slug":"only-6-of-consumers-would-pay-20-a-month-for-espn-outkick-the-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Only 6% of Consumers Would Pay $20 a Month For ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not a math expert, but if you\u2019re paying $6 billion a year in rights fees and you only bring in $4 billion in subscriber revenue, that\u2019s not good. Add on top of that that advertising, which represents around a quarter of ESPN\u2019s revenue, would plummet as well. Hell, it\u2019s already happening. ESPN had to make up for ratings shortfalls with this year\u2019s playoffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkickthecoverage.com\/only-6-of-consumers-would-pay-20-a-month-for-espn-011416\/\">Only 6% of Consumers Would Pay $20 a Month For ESPN &#8211; Outkick the Coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, it\u2019s hard to come to any conclusion other than this one: ESPN is a dead company walking<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a math expert, but if you\u2019re paying $6 billion a year in rights fees and you only bring in $4 billion in subscriber revenue, that\u2019s not good. Add on top of that that advertising, which represents around a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-sports","tag-cabletv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}