{"id":8391,"date":"2013-03-29T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2013-03-29T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T04:53:07","slug":"the-economics-of-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032913_0451_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESPN is owned by Disney and is probably responsible for 60% of Disney&#8217;s cash flow and half of its share price writes The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESPN has done incredibly well because it was quick to realize the importance of showing sports live as they happened.<\/li>\n<li>The channel is also good at bidding for exclusive rights so that content available on ESPN isn&#8217;t available anywhere else.<\/li>\n<li>ESPN also has affiliate fees \u2013 which cable operators pay to carry its channel. This is a more lucrative and more stable funding source for ESPN than advertizements, keeping ESPN&#8217;s profits healthy.<\/li>\n<li>Competition is rising though. ESPN sold off its British assets because it couldn&#8217;t acquire the rights to broadcast football there.<\/li>\n<li>But even if ESPN fails to acquire the rights to some content, it can take solace in knowing that its customers are mostly locked into long-term contracts and can&#8217;t leave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the channels humble origins in a prostitution ring, its relationship with Disney, and some more of the secrets to its success over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21574463-wonderful-world-espn-sports-network-which-outmints-mickey-mouse-real-disney\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21574463-wonderful-world-espn-sports-network-which-outmints-mickey-mouse-real-disney\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN is owned by Disney and is probably responsible for 60% of Disney&#8217;s cash flow and half of its share price writes The Economist: ESPN has done incredibly well because it was quick to realize the importance of showing sports live as they happened. The channel is also good at bidding for exclusive rights so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032913_0451_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}