I think that ironically, people were clamoring to be able to buy TV channels a la carte, only buying the ones that they watched. They were unhappy about paying for religion channels or shopping channels or music channels or whatever, if they didn't watch them. Now, with streaming, it will soon truly be a la carte channel buying, but it will wind up costing everybody a whole lot more money to do so than it did when they were paying a monthly cable fee.
I have no doubt that ESPN is going to streaming, and I have no doubt that it will be bundled with Disney and other things, and I have no doubt that it will cost a small fortune. And if they play their cards right, and own much of the rights to college football and the NHL and the NBA etc, we'll all have no choice but to pony up.