&gt; an unbunbled or streaming subscriber would need to pay $36 a month for ESPN access for them to generate the same revenue they generate through current cable carriage contracts.<p>ESPN and professional sports are way over valued and forcing everyone to subsidize sports fans.  This is literally the reason why people are becoming cord-cutters, they&#x27;re tired of paying for things they don&#x27;t want.  Right now 1 in 6 cable subscribers watch ESPN but 6 in 6 cable subscribers pay for it.  Cable companies really need to move to an a-la-carte pricing model if they want survive but they&#x27;re afraid of the large networks pulling their bundles.  It&#x27;s almost like we need a cable monopoly or union to break the network monopolies.