Disney has executed the transition to streaming effectively, but its popular ESPN channels are still reliant on traditional pay TV.
"We're successfully navigating the evolution of consumer choice," said Jimmy Pitaro, chairman of ESPN, which is majority-owned and controlled by Disney,
ESPN has to figure out how to make up $3 billion in annual lost pay-TV subscription revenue that's coming in the next few years as cord-cutting continues, a decline that Disney executives are anticipating, according to people familiar with the matter. This is a May 16, 2018, file photo showing then-Turner Broadcasting President David Levy attending the Turner Networks 2018 Upfront in New York., said he thinks Disney can get 30 million customers to pay $30 a month for streaming ESPN, or more than double the cost for a standard Netflix subscription. That would bring in $10.8 billion annually — more than Disney makes today from pay-TV affiliate revenue.
The uncertainty of how many subscribers will pay for sports in an à la carte streaming world isn't lost on the leagues. The NFL built in early out-clauses to its most recent 11-year deals with the networks, according to people familiar with the matter, allowing the league to bail if the business model stops working.
ESPN executives have been playing with ways to incentivize annual membership on the existing ESPN+ service to reduce month-to-month volatility. Several times this year, ESPN has sold a pay-per-view UFC fight for $69.99 on ESPN+, and at the same time offered a full-year membership, that would include the match, for $89.99, a 35% discount.
"If you put sports into Hulu or Disney+, instead of charging $5 or $7, now you're charging $30?" Greenfield said. "And then you're trying to compete against Netflix at $15. There is no model I see that works. There's no easy answer."ESPN executives are hesitant about moving their prized programming to directly to consumers because of rampant password sharing among young users, according to people familiar with the matter.
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