I haven't seen this year's schedule yet, but unless you're talking about the entire NHL I'd hardly call last year's arrangement a bunch. For any single team, it was only a handful. And ESPN+ is a total joke, as your local team is always blacked out even if you can't get the channel it's carried on.
You understand "collusion" is a legal definition, right? Unless the content owners are meeting among themselves and saying "let's all charge the same amount", it's not "collusion".
Actually, the RSNs were the only sports channels we watched 99% of the time. However, Dish doesn't have our RSNs anymore.
After watching solely 4K, up-converted 4K and even 1080 digital streaming for the last 2+ years through my Nvidia Sheild Pro and now my Sony TV, I can see those differences in every Hopper I install.
Until Time Warner gave in.... And people weren't paying for it during those three years
Except for those paying direct to HBO, remember HBONOW was a thing back then.
At its peak there were over 110 million cable subscribers.
Yep, now 70 million which includes OTT Services like YTTV, Hulu Live, etc.
Nah, I ditched ESPN 3-4 years ago and have not had a single regret so you're not alone. For a company that relys on sports it spends way too much time on yellow journalism, like Between The Lines for instance.
Oh, I think it's been way above 50 million for a long time. Cable TV penetration has been in decline for about a decade now and it's down to only about 50% of households per MoffanNathanson. The US has about 128 million households now, so that would put the number of subs at about 64 million.
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Nah, I ditched ESPN 3-4 years ago and have not had a single regret so you're not alone. For a company that relys on sports it spends way too much time on yellow journalism, like Between The Lines for instance.
Has anyone noticed that some folks complaining about the disputes are the same folks who complain about the rate hikes? If Dish has a dispute and tries to save you money you complain as if you would be perfectly happy paying an additional $10 or $15 a month just to avoid them (I've seen people actually post that) but when the dust settles and the annual rate hike comes along you jump right in and complain some more. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
What I find mystifying is the people I have seen post on here about getting everything via streaming and "only" paying $129 (or more). Yet when paying that for Dish it's "exorbitant". Huh? I get everything I want from Dish for $70. The only streaming I have is Prime Video (free with Prime) with two add-ons for another $15, grand total $85. It's amazing to me that people who complain about channel stuffing on cable or satellite (whee, 150 channels, 200 channels!) are willing to climb right back into it with streaming services without blinking an eye and even at that complain about some obscure channel that's missing.
| Fresno, CA | KFSN-TV ++ | 30 (30) | 1986 | CapCities |
| Los Angeles | KABC-TV ** | 7 (7) | 1949 | ABC |
| San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose | KGO-TV ** | 7 (12) | 1949 | ABC |
| Chicago | WLS-TV ** | 7 (22) | 1948 | ABC |
| New York City | WABC-TV ** | 7 (7) | 1948 | ABC |
| Raleigh - Durham - Fayetteville, NC | WTVD ++ | 11 (9) | 1986 | CapCities |
| Philadelphia | WPVI-TV ++ | 6 (6) | 1986 | CapCities |
| Houston | KTRK-TV ++ | 13 (13) | 1986 | CapCities |
The F1 Game is on ESPN 3, not +, so you would need a provider for that.
Dish isn't necessarily making money unless Disney channels are out for a long time or never come back. I'm assuming (yes, I know) that if an agreement is reached, it will go back to cover from the end of the last contract (9/30).
Just to clarify: there's a single ESPN app. That app is home to two things: the standalone ESPN+ streaming service (which you pay ESPN directly for, or pay through your app store such as Apple, Google, Roku, Amazon, etc.) as well as "TV everywhere" streaming from the ESPN cable channels. To get the latter, you will need to be subscribed to a cable TV package that includes the specific ESPN channels and then use that log in inside the ESPN app.
