ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History
I would pay ESPN $10 a month for an ESPN streaming app that had access to all the college football games (no blackouts), alone, as long as it didn&#x27;t require a cable subscription.  The current ESPN streaming app is garbage, compared to Netflix, and other on-demand interfaces.  It&#x27;s not available on my Smart TV.  The quality of the streaming is terrible.  It&#x27;s slow to bring up video.  The ads are repetitive and annoying, and it&#x27;s a second class citizen with wait screens while local ads are up on broadcast.<p>Comcast recently decided to institute a 1TB&#x2F;month cap in my area, with a charge of $10 per 50GB after up to $200, or $50 for unlimited (opt-in, by the sounds).  There are no technical reasons why they did this, it was entirely to gain more revenue to make up for the cord cutters.  Their own streaming service doesn&#x27;t apply to their data cap.<p>The whole thing is garbage and needs to be completely changed.  The moment Google Fiber or something better comes along in my area, I&#x27;m going internet only, and I&#x27;ll just go without until they realize how badly they&#x27;ve managed to move with the trends and start fixing it.