Back to the evolution of news, is there really a need for national news sites like ESPN? If we have a website like Reddit, which utilizes the content of other sites, local sites, then why do we need a company that employs talking heads who know very little about the details of each individual team? If I go to RC2, or say r/NBA or r/ripcity, I'm going to find a collection of articles, interest pieces, original content, videos, etc about the NBA or the Blazers. In the past we needed a company like ESPN to bring us news from around the country because the internet didn't exist. Or it existed in a much smaller and/or limited capacity. We have outgrown the need for national news sites.
Net Neutrality is government picking Amazon, Google, and Netflix winners at the expense of Verizon, Frontier, etc. They shouldn't pick winners, period.
How? The internet should be a utility. It should be no different than phone lines, water, electricity, etc.
Google, Netflix, etc., use 2/3 of all the bandwidth everywhere, yet pay for a tiny fraction of it. Before these FCC net neutrality rules, they would be paying their fare share. There always has been premium bandwidth that the big companies buy, and it should be that way. We pay one such big company for commercial service for this site, as it should be. ESPN.com is served from some big number of servers and from all over the internet to assure users get WWW pages served in spite of outages elsewhere in the world/country. ESPN is fast because it is served for you from a server as close as possible to your internet connection, even on your ISP's local network. It is served for me fast because it is served from a server as close as possible to me. You want video data to be prioritized over other data so your streaming video doesn't bog/buffer/skip. You can wait a few extra seconds for your game to download to your XBox and not even realize it's not 100% as fast as possibly could be. That's not "treating all traffic equally," and it shouldn't be required to treat all traffic equally. Finally, the FTC regulates the internet, including any net neutrality type rules. I don't think it's right for the FCC to regulate communications. It's a violation of free speech and property rights.
To me, ESPN is a lot like CSNNW. The only time I watch it is when there is a Blazer game on it. Can't honestly think of the last time I watched ESPN otherwise.
If Dick Vitale is still around, that is proof the network is fucked beyond belief. Hope Berman finally retires........
So is there any chance ESPN/TNT default on the new media contract? Would that mean players don't get paid? I'm sure this won't happen, just thinking down the road...
If it had the Pac 12 channel, History, and Comedy Central, that combined with an antenna would be all the tv you needed. The first one of Hulu, Youtube TV, Directv Now, Sling or Playstation will be the one that wins.
a la carte internet might not be so bad. if i dont watch porn, should i have to pay for the rest of yall to beat off? i just wanna see my lolcats. $5 a month. easy peasy. and all you perverts can pay $100 a month to watch eel soup and the like. sick bastards.
