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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 3100640, member: 3850"] ESPN is approaching their new revenue building platforms much differently between how they feature the AAC and ACC. The AAC content is being used as an enticement to have customers sign up for $4.99 to access the content on ESPN+. The ACCN is being bundled with other Disney/ESPN properties and folks pay for it whether they want it, or will watch it, because it is part of their cable/streaming package. I am moderately optimistic about ESPN+ growth.......Right now, ESPN has an incentive to maintain content on the ESPN linear channels because they earn more. But that might not always be true. The $4.99 per could be a start up, get subscribers, cost and the charge could escalate to be competitive with linear charges. Of course, what Disney really wants is to have you subscribe to ESPN and then buy ESPN+ for its extra programming. [/QUOTE]