Originally Posted by
HerdBot
It's just a band aid on a model that will disappear some day. At the end of the day, Fox and ESPN will have the same number of channels and if Fox wouldn't put FCS on, not sure why ESPN would.
But with the espn streaming channels, they will suddenly have a ton of content.
Fox Sports North is the one channel I would love to see. That's a basic cable channel in ND, SD, and MN. You want to on a channel that has the twins, wild, and wolves. I would take that over state wide NBC. But in time, FSN North will run out of viewers too as people cut cable.
But long term Netflix or Amazon could be like the early days of ESPN when they had no viewers and nobody cared about the Big East basketball but Villanova and Georgetown ended up being national brands and as ESPN grew, it was a great deal for both