There seems to be a trend toward a new business model, like CBS now has an individual subscription service. That’s the right way to go, we can hope Disney/ESPN finds themselves all alone with their cable channel model, and decides to start offering individual subscriptions. The content providers are also starting to regularly get pushback from the cable and satellite systems about the fees they want to charge at renewal time. I think ESPN3 is on the wrong side of history. If you want to be an OTT content provider, you sell subscriptions direct to the subscribers who want your content.
From: Jason McKemie via Af Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 4:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ESPN3 Don't contribute to that business model. On Wednesday, December 3, 2014, Brett A Mansfield via Af <[email protected]> wrote: I've seen a lot of ISPs and WISPs offering ESPN3 for free now. Nobody can seem to or is willing to tell me how they get that set up. I'd really like to offer that to my customers. Anyone able and willing to tell me how to do that? Thank you, Brett A Mansfield
