Future of Cable TV
November 14th, 2014 at 5:27:37 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
My brother, the preacher, spent $1600 on a television, but he gets no cable TV . His argument is that he would rather get a nice TV than pay through the nose for TV service. He gets enough from Netflix, Amazon Prime, DVD's, and shows available on web browser. |
November 14th, 2014 at 5:43:43 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
People without cable always say that. But put them some place where they can get cable at a reasonable cost, they snap it up. I don't watch it a lot, but need it for things I want to see. Like football and baseball and news and a few reality shows. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 14th, 2014 at 5:47:24 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18210 |
Get it to $20 a month and I may be back. Don't make me pay for ESPN because no matter what I know it is costing me $7 a month and I never watch it. But in reality all I would watch is FNC and "Bar Rescue" at the rate I am going. The President is a fink. |
November 14th, 2014 at 6:59:30 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Our cable company gives us the Philadelphia OTA channels for just the cost of renting the decoder boxes ($10 per TV). Unfortunately we are blocked by two 1000' hills which means we can't put up a simple antenna and get ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX/ Univision, etc. Although you can watch TV shows on the web the day after, you can't watch sports. My other brother has a friend who works at ESPN. He said the company knows their years are numbered as a basic cable channel. As the most expensive channel in the lineup (by a large margin) they are the major target for people pushing for ala carte options. They are aware that inevitably the pressure will be on to make it an optional tier channel. They are just hanging on as long as they can because it is $7-$8 billion a year. |
November 14th, 2014 at 9:57:57 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
On average, out of the $90/month that Comcast, Time Warner, DirectTV receive from their customers, $28 of that goes to the content providers (ESPN, TNT, USA, TBS, etc). Most of the remaining $60 is profit. |
November 15th, 2014 at 3:42:22 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Not quite profit. They have all the overhead of running a business, like thousands of employees, thousands of miles of cable and infrastructure. I'm guessing a very small part of that 60 is actual profit. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 15th, 2014 at 5:47:47 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Somehow they can always afford to repaint all those trucks with the latest corporate name and slogans, so they are making money somewhere. |
November 15th, 2014 at 8:10:14 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
All part of the overhead. Any profit they make goes back into the company anyway. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 15th, 2014 at 8:38:47 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The article says $28 for a dozen networks.I think most of them pay much more This chart 2009, was widely circulated. WSJ updated numbers $6.04 ESPN $1.48 TNT $1.22 NFL Network $1.21 Disney Channel $0.99 FOX News $0.83 USA Network $0.74 ESPN2 $0.72 TBS $0.68 Fox Sports 1 $0.68 Nick/Nick at Nite $0.63 CNN When CBS began offering an "all access pass" to it's shows without football for $6 per month even though most of them are available on their free website the next day, I wondered who would buy the service? |
November 16th, 2014 at 7:01:38 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |