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Message: [QUOTE="Vowelguy, post: 2197680, member: 59"] Uhh, have you considered you have the causation backwards? ESPN would love nothing more than air Sportscenter all day. News shows are cheap to produce. But why would anyone wait for 6pm or 11pm to get Sports highlights when they can get them almost instantly on their phone? Thus the move to provide content that only ESPN has. Subscribers are not walking away from ESPN. They are walking away from cable. No one is giving up their 300 channels just because ESPN has more opinion shows. ESPN makes a ton of money on carriage feeds 5-10x more than most major channels. So every person who cuts a cord has a bigger impact on its revenue. As for your Sirius example, I'm sure they too recognize that they cant compete in the music-only game with competitors like Spotify and Pandora, which are cheaper and can be used anywhere. [/QUOTE]