Eero’s companion app walks you through every step, complete with helpful images.Įero’s app is helpful in other ways, too. Getting the network up and running is as easy as downloading an app and plugging in Eero’s units. You need only three things to set up an Eero network: An Internet modem, Eero’s Wi-Fi devices, and a smartphone. So the way you do that is you go direct-to-consumer,” he said.Here’s a closer look at what it was like to use Eero’s Wi-Fi system. “You have to try to make sure that you can capture the people that are leaving that ecosystem, but still want your service. That means that content providers have to meet viewers where they are, said Adam Deutsch, who is with Deloitte Consulting and used to work for ESPN.

Research from the consulting firm Madison and Wall estimates there are 77 million pay-TV subscribers in the U.S., which is down about 25% from a peak in 2012. “It makes money through selling advertising and subscription.” It was born in 1979, and the way we watch ESPN kinda dates back from that time, said Charles Schreger, a professor at both NYU and Fordham. If ESPN was a person, it’d be a young Gen X-er.

Then the Wall Street Journal reported this week that the company is actively preparing for such a shift under a project with the internal code name “Flagship.” There’s no timeline given, but such a move might shake up the streaming landscape, and would definitely shake up the cable industry. ESPN is owned by Disney, and in an earnings call last week, CEO Bob Iger said the migration was “an inevitability.” There’s been talk in the media industry for years that ESPN’s flagship cable channel would eventually be available on streaming.

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