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Originally Posted by TheVillagesAV.com
ESPN is pay to play. Cable or satellite TV subscription is required.
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Yes. ESPN is expensive. Quite a number of subscribers do not watch the programming, yet subsidize those that do.
It is owned by Disney.
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ESPN’s average monthly price is more than four times the monthly fee for the next most expensive national network.
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“There is no regulation that says, ‘Wait a minute, is it mathematically positive, or reasonable, for 75 million who don’t want ESPN to pay for the 25 percent who do, at a false price?’ ” said Barry Diller, the media executive who is backing the technology of a company called Aereo that streams broadcast channels online and is viewed as a challenge to cable.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/sp...sive.html?_r=0