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No ESPN or SEC Network on Spectrum (9/11 update: Settled)

GrayTide said:
I turned on to watch the Florida vs Utah game last night and got a screen that essentially said that Spectrum was negotiating with Disney to show college football on ESPN. This included the SEC Network. I turned TV on this morning and the same disclaimer is on saying Spectrum is still negotiating with Disney and therefore unless Spectrum raises it rates ESPN will not be available to Spectrum customers. Anybody else have this problem?
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Disney is playing hardball. The loser is the fans.
I pulled the pin 5 years ago and never looked back.
I bought a ROKU Device and subscribed to YouTube TV.
I get to watch the games. Streaming is much less expensive than Direct TV, ATT Uverse ect...
 
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Padreruf said:
DTV is doing the same. Switch to YoutubeTV or at least get a 7 day free trial and you can watch all. the games this weekend. BTW, it is wonderful -- they have a multi-view option where you can watch 4 games at once...pretty good for CFB addicts like myself.
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The multi view option is pretty cool.
 
CrimsonTheory said:
And it's a luxury, not a need. I'm on a extremely tight budget and I don't have 70 something bucks to spend on youtube.
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I’m confused. Do you currently have traditional cable or satellite? If so, YTTV is a much better replacement and is almost always cheaper. Many people simply don’t understand what YTTV is.
 
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colbysullivan said:
I’m confused. Do you currently have traditional cable or satellite? If so, YTTV is a much better replacement and is almost always cheaper. Many people simply don’t understand what YTTV is.
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And I don't have the disposal income for that. It's why I have ROKU with bundles (Disney, Hulu, etc). So unless YTTV is part of a bundle, I cannot afford to spend 70 bucks a month on just youtubetv.
 
CrimsonTheory said:
And I don't have the disposal income for that. It's why I have ROKU with bundles (Disney, Hulu, etc). So unless YTTV is part of a bundle, I cannot afford to spend 70 bucks a month on just youtubetv.
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Ok but that’s not at all what we are talking about here. The point I was trying to make is if people still have traditional cable or satellite, they will likely have a better (and cheaper) experience by switching to YTTV. If you don’t currently have cable or satellite because of your budget, then of course it doesn’t make sense to switch.
 
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colbysullivan said:
Ok but that’s not at all what we are talking about here. The point I was trying to make is if people still have traditional cable or satellite, they will likely have a better (and cheaper) experience by switching to YTTV. If you don’t currently have cable or satellite because of your budget, then of course it doesn’t make sense to switch.
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Ok. I did have Spectrum and through that I did have youtubetv but I had issues with Spectrum and decided they were no longer worth the cost, so obviously, I am no longer with Spectrum.

So for me following Bama football in the future, it's going to be via this site on the game threads or watching youtube (regular youtube and not youtubetv) for the highlights.
 
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If you have Disney I believe you could add ESPN+ for 10 a month or so...and then you would have a lot of CFB games. I'm not sure @ CBS, but I would think you would have to add CBS sports or something like that to get SEC football.

I have ROKU on 2 tv's as my app operating system as those tv's are not new enough to handle modern apps. It's a good system with a lot of "free" channels...such as Pluto.
 
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Disney owns both ABC and ESPN. So the three companies are essentially different sides of the same entity.

While Disney is in no danger of folding, its stock has languished for some time, and is now below what it was 9 years ago...while the S&P index as a whole is roughly 2.25x what it was at that time. That's what cost Bob Chapek (who was, incidentally, Bob Iger's handpicked successor) his job as CEO.

Since Bob Iger took over for a second run as Disney's CEO, he's been on a tear to improve profitability. All the cuts in on-air personalities at ESPN were just one part of that. Increasing revenue with hardball negotiations as contracts with various deliverers of content come up for renewal is another. Disney getting much quieter on the political front is yet another.

Spectrum is getting all the attention now, simply because it's the first major one up for renewal since Iger's second stint as CEO started in November of last year. All the others, whether traditional cable, satellite, or streaming, will have their turn in the barrel.

This is the beginning of a total remake not just of sports programming, but across all content of all descriptions, and will end with consumers having to make some hard choices.
 
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