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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4704260, member: 833"] Streaming is not there yet, but it is not far off. Every conference's current TV contract is probably its high point for a linear contract. The ESPN revenue model of getting people that didn't want to pay for ESPN to pay for ESPN is finished in the next few years. Even cable providers are going to make ESPN an add-on. ESPN has to go to a full subscription model, like Paramout+ or Netflix, but without a huge library to get people to subscribe. I don't know how ESPN is going to pay for the contracts it has currently signed, much less new ones. The schools under a linear contract umbrella are basically going to have ESPN finance their transition to streaming. Schools like UConn or going to have to come out of pocket. [/QUOTE]