Company Man is an amazing annalist on YouTube looking at all sorts of companies and ho they are progressing and whether they are declining. Company looked at the trends and data and people are cutting the cords and doesn't get how ESPN can still be raising their prices. The price to carry their networks by the cable operators are increasing as more and more people cut subscribing to this network that Company says is devoting less and less time to live sports.
Live sports is what made ESPN but Company Man says every time he turn this channel on all he sees are former athletes and loud mouth annalists talking about sports instead of the network airing it. Company man says people are quitting ESPN because the cable companies are increasing the cost back to them for siring this channel and given a choice consumers are less apt to subsidize the contracts and multi millionaire status luxuries of ballers. He is amazed that ESPN is starting to resemble more and more like FOX

Which brings us back to ESPN. The network can't keep paying for the rights to these sports games and affording it without raising the rates and this is the quagmire this network is in as they need live sports to remain viable as otherwise they can never charge and continue their growth prospects for charging cable companies to carry their increasing unpopular and boring network. Leagues likewise will likely decide to carry more live events on their own networks