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Message: [QUOTE="wbball novice, post: 3100419, member: 8663"] Wonder how much ESPN pays in taxes to CT., if any -- as opposed to SNY? And ESPN employs a lot of CT residents, who pay taxes. SNY I assume is NY based and doesn't employ the same number of staff from CT and I assume doesn't pay taxes to CT. Also, I get the impression from the BY that most UConn women's bball fans pay taxes in Arizona or Florida. If SNY contracts to broadcast the less competitive UConn games the money goes to Disney rather than directly to UConn, however. Maybe ESPN can license those games to CPTV, which at least employs CT residents! If UConn's non-competitive games end up on ESPN+, I don't think the issue is the extra $5 during the fairly short bball season. Rather, it would be the quality of the broadcast streaming. ESPN3 on my computer (ethernet connection) does not compare favorably to SNY on cable, and, interestingly, the ESPN3 streaming picture via Comcast on a smart TV is, for the most part, comparable in quality to SNY on cable, but at this time Comcast doesn't carry ESPN+. PAC12 picture quality on TV is generally agreed to be the worst in college sports, and I suspect ESPN+ may resemble PAC12 technology for viewers used to HD picture quality on TV. On the "plus" side I believe ESPN plans to use ESPN+ as the home of mixed martial arts at ESPN, so it might attract a younger demographic who could watch a women's bball game if nothing else is on on their smartphones or tablets. In the larger scheme of things, ESPN may be calculating that most of the UConn women's bball viewers will have died of old age by the time the contract goes into effect. [/QUOTE]

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