Ok...in a literal sense it doesn't add up.... Just trying to make the point of the impact one small (in the eyes of the average citizen) piece of Disney amounts to considerable revenue. Everyone focuses on Movies and theme parks.
also, I didn't factor in the revenue created by the $2.50 spent by the remaining cable companies in the US, and.... the advertising revenue!!
Easily a 1 to 1.5 billion dollar piece of Disney??? (I did find out later on that Disney does not own 100% of ESPN, which obviously skews this point)
Can someone confirm my logic?
Ive read that Disney is charging $2.50 per cable subscriber per month for ESPN - the highest rate in the business. (They also make programming demands that other Disney channels are part of a package -this is how ESPN2 spread).
Anyway... that's 700 million bucks a year to Disney just for ESPN!! You could argue that just keeping the ESPN 700mil "in house" alone makes this deal worthwhile!
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Ok...in a literal sense it doesn't add up.... Just trying to make the point of the impact one small (in the eyes of the average citizen) piece of Disney amounts to considerable revenue. Everyone focuses on Movies and theme parks. also, I didn't factor in the revenue created by the $2.50 spent by the remaining cable companies in the US, and.... the advertising revenue!! Easily a 1 to 1.5 billion dollar piece of Disney??? (I did find out later on that Disney does not own 100% of ESPN, which obviously skews this point) Can someone confirm my logic?
Ive read that Disney is charging $2.50 per cable subscriber per month for ESPN - the highest rate in the business. (They also make programming demands that other Disney channels are part of a package -this is how ESPN2 spread).
Anyway... that's 700 million bucks a year to Disney just for ESPN!! You could argue that just keeping the ESPN 700mil "in house" alone makes this deal worthwhile!