Cable TV customers pay more than $9 per month for ESPN networks whether they watch or not
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Despite the loss in subscribers, ESPN, overall, is just as popular as ever, if not more, and we can see this in their monthly subscriber fees. ESPN now charges $7.21 per subscriber, by far the most expensive cable network, and up 54% from what they were charging in 2011, when it cost $4.69 per subscriber. And that is just for ESPN's main network.
If we look at sports networks available in more than 50% of cable and satellite TV homes, $9.06 of each monthly bill goes to ESPN's top four networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network), whether the customer watches those networks or not, according to data from SNL Kagan (via Sports TV Ratings).
The Fox Sports family of networks (FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network) are the next most expensive, with customers paying $1.86 each month for those networks combined. The stand-alone NFL Network is the only other sports entity charging more than $1.00 per month.
Here is how much different sports network families charge each month per subscriber:
- ESPN (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network) - $9.06
- Fox Sports (FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network) - $1.86
- NFL Network - $1.39
- NBC Sports (NBCSN, Golf Channel) - $0.68
- NBA TV - $0.30
- MLB Network - $0.28
- CBS Sports - $0.26
- Tennis Channel - $0.15
- Univision Deportes - $0.14
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