For a good percentage of ESPN’s 92.7 million subscribers, the hook is the appeal of live sports such as baseball, Monday Night Football, basketball and the channel’s flagship program, SportsCenter. But now that more sports programming is being streamed over the Internet at a lower cost for consumers, the network is losing subscribers. It has been difficult for ESPN to move into streaming itself without jeopardizing its very profitable relationship with the cable providers, who see streaming as a direct threat. – Chris Ciaccia, TheStreet

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