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He's probably concerned that going forward a certain large percentage of his "Prime" subscription will go toward sports, just like cable: https://consumerist.c

He's probably concerned that going forward a certain large percentage of his "Prime" subscription will go toward sports, just like cable: https://consumerist.com/2014/08/05/espn-accounts-for-more-than-6-of-your-cable-bill-could-soon-top-8/ https://consumerist.com/2014/08/05/espn-accounts-for-more-th... ...I doubt Amazon will get that bad, but it's definitely a good reason to currently avoid cable. Really, for people who don't like sports, the notion that watching people throw a ball around costs vastly more than the other channels is baffling. I really don't want some heavyweight imbeciles getting my money when I want to watch news/movies/comedy/etc.

Godel_unicode 10y ago
This just seems like such a strange attitude, given the veritable ocean of non-sports content out there at the moment. If your show got cancelled, it's almost certainly not because of sports; rather, it's exceedingly likely that it's up against some other show (or shows) which drew a larger audience. In fact, realize that up until very recently a great deal of non-sports content only got created because sports were used as leverage against the cable companies. The bundling that happened on major cable networks required cable companies to carry channels which comparatively few people watch in order for the cable company to be allowed to carry e.g. ESPN. If you're a fan of indie content/comedy, you should be happy about the existence of ESPN et al, otherwise your show would likely not exist.