Our household is one of the 96% that doesn't regularly watch sports so I don't want to pay for it. There is no reason for golf, tennis, baseball, basketball or football ever to be beamed into my home.
Cable providers consider cutting out sports to lower your TV bill
Sports programming is driving up your television bill, and cable providers aren’t happy about it. Though football, basketball, and baseball may seem to be some of the most watched content around,…
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I'm with you, dude.
On my DirecTV, I've nuke all the ESPN and other sports channels because I flat-out don't care.
Even nuked Speed, 'cause, well, since they don't carry WRC or BTCC anymore, why bother?
I'm all kinds of sports all the time. I don't want Oxygen, OWN, all those girly crap channels like Lifetime and such. Give me the 'Man TV Package', with all the stuff I like and watch and please delete the girly crap!!!
I suspect that if the cable companies did that they'd find out that's a lucrative and preferred channel selection for us men.
Or, they could offer both, and make ALL THE MONIES!
Cable companies need to pull their heads from their asses and start offering a la carte service.
But, +Matthew VandenBerg , they've likely convinced themselves they'll make fewer monies that way.
+Kelly Bradley It's a mixture of money they would lose and money that less liked channels will lose. Think of how many people would cut out QVC and those 24 hour infomercial channels.
I'd love to see the a la carte method I just can't really see cable every going in that direction. If anything they've been going in quite the opposite direction by offering 200+ channel packages.
I've been on a sat dish since 1998.
The whole package BS bugs the crap out of me.
Problem is always – REVENUE.
ESPN is the big money-maker and the smaller channels don't provide the revenue. If they cut ESPN they'd cut a huge chunk of cash out of their bottom line but lose subscribers to whoever else offered it. Then you're talking problems.
The only option is ala carte. But that won't happen. No one will pay for ESPN based upon their current sell rate. No one could afford it.
In the UK we have the basic satellite package, the sports package comes at a heavy premium. Probably a result of not enough competition to BSkyB (at least in terms of satellite offerings).