And the real price for what is now known as Venu, has now been revealed as
being... $42.99.
So a bit cheaper than my $50 guess.
https://deadline.com/2024/08/price-of-espn-fox-wbd-sports-streaming-bundle-venu-1236028650/
"Linear networks offered via Venu include ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN,
So it sounds like it's going to cost $50 a month according to Lachlan
Murdoch.
https://www.threads.net/@pkafka/post/C4G76nFvjjo/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Which is precisely what I guessed it would cost :-)
On Thu, 8 Feb 2024, 02:44 PGage, wrote:
> I have been reading a bit about this, and
I have been reading a bit about this, and the main thing that comes through
is they still don’t really know what they are doing with this. For some
reason they had a need to announce this as a placeholder, while they figure
out the details.
As Adam suggests, a lot of those details surround how
I think the only way you can get sports fans to pay that level of monthly
prices is to have home games available. I get ESPN+ as part of the Hulu
bundle and I can watch NHL games with every team except my home team. My
friend, who just got rid of his $230 a month cable subscription, was happy
to
I guess it's all about the maths.
When there were 100m cable homes each paying, say, $7 a month for ESPN
regardless of whether they watched it or not because it was "part of the
bundle", ESPN could be both very profitable AND dig deep for sports rights.
To make the same money in a streaming
>From the article:
“*Pricing details and a name for the service will be disclosed at a later
date, though an individual familiar with the matter told TheWrap that the
price point would be cheaper than YouTube TV, which charges $72.99 per
month for its basic plan. CNBC
The interesting thing here will be to see how much all this costs.
Because I suspect it'll be fairly pricey.
I can't see it being much less than $50 a month, considering the numbers
floating around for ESPN on its own were around $30-35. I believe that
Bleacher Report is going to be a $9.99
It also doesn't appear to include local MLB, NBA, and NHL broadcasts (aside
from out-of-market NHL broadcasts that are already available on ESPN+). If they
could get the in-market streaming rights to those -- which would involve
negotiations with the teams and the current rights holders, e.g.,
The service, to come in the fall, will have MLB (except the AppleTV+ and
Peacock packages), NFL (except Sunday Night Football), NBA and NHL games,
along with a ton of college games (including the NCAA men's and women's
basketball tourneys) and whatever else the Worldwide Leader can throw
