Re: It may depend on if ESPN goes broke or not before the

Not sure that broke really has anything to do with it as ESPN is 80% owned by Disney and 20% owned by Hearst Corporation. Any restructuring associated with ESPN moving to red numbers would not involve a true bankruptcy/reorganization scenario and it is doubtful they would void future payments. They might restructure the contracts and/or offer certain buyout incentives but, whatever happens I doubt people will be caught by surprise or left scrambling at the last minute. Between the ESPN and Fox issues, the industry challenges related to subscription models and content distribution, etc. the next few years will be interesting and the landscape might be drastically different. The ACC missed out on the first round of network deals but , how that impacts them going forward is yet to be determined.

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Posted: 04/27/2017 at 10:18AM

Clay Travis on ESPN layoffs... -- mancunian 04/26/2017 12:51PM

70 on-air/online layoffs. Out of ~1000. Not that apocolyptic -- Tercules 04/26/2017 4:11PM

Thought about conference agreements with a bubble burst -- Colonel Jessup 04/26/2017 1:29PM

ESPN channels are migrating to streaming services already. -- HOO86 04/26/2017 1:50PM

True but will get much less overall viewers and no more new, huge contracts ** -- Colonel Jessup 04/26/2017 1:52PM

It depends. We'd have to know the turn up rate on the streaming subscribers -- HOO86 04/26/2017 2:24PM

It may depend on if ESPN goes broke or not before the -- VTHokie2000 04/26/2017 1:47PM

Re: It may depend on if ESPN goes broke or not before the -- 2hhoop3 04/27/2017 10:18AM

Even though Disney and Hearst Corporation own ESPN -- VTHokie2000 04/27/2017 1:26PM

Wasn't thinking that extreme but good point ** -- Colonel Jessup 04/26/2017 1:50PM

The only reason I mentioned it is because Clay mentioned -- VTHokie2000 04/26/2017 1:58PM

Swofford & Co wouldn't know a red flag if it bit him in his buttocks. ** -- Atlee Hokie 04/26/2017 9:06PM

Re: It may depend on if ESPN goes broke or not before the

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