ESPN realizing that the crap they continue to put on the air in terms of original programming is causing them to hemorrhage $. That and they overpaid for all of the P5 conference deals plus paying Texas a ridiculous sum of $ for a largely failed entity. Their NFL deal is horrible and grossly overvalued for a declining product and terrible matchups and they are losing the NBA with a terrible LeBron and Steph loving product. The TNT NBA production is far superior than what ESPN puts out. NFL Network and the Sunday night NBC game are superior to what has become of MNF. ESPNs too busy putting on a show rather than narrating and analyzing a game. Declining viewership leads to declining ad dollars and you still owe on contracts. Cable providers are holding their ground on what they are going to pay for what ESPN is putting out there meaning there is no extra subscription $ coming in. They've turned Sportscenter into Inside Edition. In the 90's I never missed the Dan Patrick/Keith Olberman nightly Sportscenter because in addition to actually showing highlights and reporting scores, it was actually somewhat entertaining.
What that means for the AAC and TU- that TV deal Aresco is going to renegotiate in a couple of years is not going to yield the increase in rights fees and per school allotments we had all speculated and hoped for. If Aresco gets unique and gets Netflix or Amazon as a live streaming partner and bringing that to the forefront, it might mean a little more. The P5s will also struggle to get the same amount they got the last time as you will see networks start scaling back some as they see they've gone beyond the limit of their own value and more and more entertainment options become available to consumers.
What that means for the AAC and TU- that TV deal Aresco is going to renegotiate in a couple of years is not going to yield the increase in rights fees and per school allotments we had all speculated and hoped for. If Aresco gets unique and gets Netflix or Amazon as a live streaming partner and bringing that to the forefront, it might mean a little more. The P5s will also struggle to get the same amount they got the last time as you will see networks start scaling back some as they see they've gone beyond the limit of their own value and more and more entertainment options become available to consumers.