How is "eyeball" viewership going to work in the future?

Will everyone have internet set top boxes and order games a la carte? Will consumers subscribe to individual property streams (teams or conferences)? Will it subscriptions be regional with options to add subscriptions from different regions?

That may be the way ESPN maintains a high subscriber price by offering little streaming subscriptions that will add up. They'll be part of a base cable package of $25 buck a month but if you are a Houston fan living in New Orleans you'll have to pay another $5 dollars a month to get Houston regional sports. There will still be "national" ESPN games that everyone gets in the base package.

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Content industry has been in transition for about a decade. By 2025 it will be clearer how this new model is going to work. NBA, NFL, P5 conference networks could be extra networks that you can pick up for 5 dollars a piece with G5 type content picking up on ESPN-R to go along with MLB, MLS ect. That could be a windfall to G5 showing up on regionals.

ESPN is combining streaming numbers into its nielsen ratings. That to me sounds like the eventual plan is to integrate the content for delivery back out to set top companies.

http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-comb...ers-2017-9