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Hey, abb.
Lots of fascinating stuff you've posted this morning.

As for ESPN's current lock?
Won't last, Time for your fabulous crushed/melted clock .JPEG my friend. LOL

We've all the Fox Sports stations, all regionally focused, ie Fox Sports North, Fox Sports Southeast etc. All of 'em.

Add those to all the ball & stick sports channels.
Now add the Big10 Network. Of which (& listen to this) they've at least 5 channel slots. One may watch every Big10 game playing on any given Saturday, except any under contract to an alphabet net. Repeats all week long, too.

ESPN's finished, kaput, fini and & they know it.
That's why the BIG dollars bid, until what happened to the network dolts with NASCAR. They simply could not sell enough advertising to cover the costs of the price they'd paid for the broadcast rights. LOL
That's not just exclusive to NASCAR, watch for it in all other venues because the NASCAR *collision* happened when the economy was literally booming.

Consider all the conferences have their own networks now and they're beamed into homes visa vi zip code for DishNet & DirecTV subscribers. Slick as snot, if ya watch college FB/BB/BB/whatever.

While we only use NHLNet, having programmed out the NFLNet after the Limbaugh gang-bang? The others such as MLS, MLB, NBA and NASCAR are all there, albeit unused.

Why should these governing entities *share* a damned cent with ESPN? That's nuts and they won't. Ultimately we'll have to get to THEM to enjoy their product(s).

You've hammered home the point of *delivery* monopolies since I first began patronizing your great threads, abb.
And as monopolies go, ESPN used to enjoy a whopper.
That status now appears posed on the precipice of extinction. ;^)

Against the clock, but have Time to ask you about this article:

"Three top executives ousted by Washington Times
Economic downturn appears to be cause of newspaper shake-up"

So whadda ya think, abb?
Think they'll go left?? LOL!!!