Cord Cutters, Your Time is Nigh
It's earnings season [again] and you know that gives me a stiffy. Aside from the financial mumbo-jumbo and forecasts of such, there is some interesting stuff going on in the media sector. CBS reported a few days ago. Mega-Chairman Les Moonves said that they will be forming a streaming channel for sports. He did not have any details, but said it would be along the lines of what NBC does with their streaming content. OK, then. Disney reported earlier today. Bob Iger said that their ESPN branch is going to be streaming content on the Internet, but like Iger, had little in the way of details - price, actual content, or accessibility - but suffice it to say, the idea is to form an Internet-only portal for sports similar to what ESPN does on the cable end. Oh and, they'll be pulling their content from Netflix (NFLX) in 2019. So, if you want to see a Disney movie, you'll have to subscribe to their channel. In addition, he suggested that the...