Peter Kafka: ESPN thinks this ad will help convince you to pay for ESPN next year

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Starting next fall, you'll be able to watch ESPN without paying for other cable channels.ESPN hasn't said how much its new streaming service will cost. Analysts think it might go for about $25 a month...

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And the winking, mockumentary spots it ran all the time made you feel like you weren't wasting your time watching sports. Sports were fun, but also funny, and you were in on the joke, too.Anyway. Things are different now. Let's look ahead to the future. Specifically next fall, when what ESPN refers to as \"Flagship\" is supposed to launch. (This is different than the ESPN+ service it already sells, which shows you stuff that's not on ESPN; Flagship will be a streamed version of all the stuff that's on \"real\" ESPN.) How much will it cost, and how many people will sign up?The company has yet to reveal pricing, or audience projections, so outside estimates can vary wildly.MoffettNathanson analyst Rob Fishman thinks ESPN will sell Flagship for about $25 a month, and projects modest pickup at first: 1 million paid subscribers by the end of 2026, 1.5 million in 2027, and 3 million by 2030.Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall is way more bullish. He thinks ESPN will sell Flagship for $23 a month, and projects 12 million subscribers in 2027, and 17 million by 2030.That big spread reflects the uncertainty I've heard coming from Disney and ESPN insiders themselves. They simply don't know how many people will want to pay for a service that gives them a lot of sports, but not all the sports on TV. And they also don't know if the people who do pay are going to be cable TV subscribers who are trading down from a big bundle of channels — or if they will be cord-cutters/cord-nevers who aren't paying for cable in the first place.That uncertainty was part of the rationale for ESPN's participation in Venu, the \"Hulu for sports\" streaming service that was going to cost $43 a month, and would include ESPN and other Disney channels like ABC, as well as sports and non-sports programming from Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. 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