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Can 3D TV Survive Without Live Sports and ESPN
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<p>[QUOTE="MrPogi, post: 75375, member: 5542"]<em><u>My take on the editor's note: </u></em>Um, </p><p>ESPN is the biggest single part of your pay TV bill, at about $4 per subscriber, <u>whether you watch it or not</u>. And they make it almost impossible for you to NOT pay them - their contracts force providers to include ESPN with all their most popular packages. So, even if a provider came up with a package that doesn't include ESPN, if it were to prove popular, the contract requires the providers to then include ESPN in that package. Mobsters have a term for this: <EXTORTION>. ESPN will then take all that extorted money and buy the rights to all sports. The Justice Department has a term for a business that controls an entire market: <MONOPOLY>. (Too bad they don't enforce these rules anymore.)</p><p></p><p>ESPN has plenty of ca$h. "Lean times" at ESPN, my @$$. Maybe E$PN ought to subsidize 3D TV makers?[/QUOTE]</p><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrPogi, post: 75375, member: 5542"][I][U]My take on the editor's note: [/U][/I]Um, [I] [/I] ESPN is the biggest single part of your pay TV bill, at about $4 per subscriber, [U]whether you watch it or not[/U]. And they make it almost impossible for you to NOT pay them - their contracts force providers to include ESPN with all their most popular packages. So, even if a provider came up with a package that doesn't include ESPN, if it were to prove popular, the contract requires the providers to then include ESPN in that package. Mobsters have a term for this: <EXTORTION>. ESPN will then take all that extorted money and buy the rights to all sports. The Justice Department has a term for a business that controls an entire market: <MONOPOLY>. (Too bad they don't enforce these rules anymore.) ESPN has plenty of ca$h. "Lean times" at ESPN, my @$$. Maybe E$PN ought to subsidize 3D TV makers?[/QUOTE]
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