"With no real growth, functionality improvements, or cool integrations with Scout and CFN, the BTN’s distribution plateauing off, BCS bowl games leaving the network to the delight of college football fans, falling adverting rates and subscriptions, the growth of blogs and other sports networks, and now a multimillion dollar settlement, Fox is most likely having a very difficult moment of truth: We spent a lot of money, we lost a lot of money, our strategy to monetize interest in college football didn’t really make any sense, this economy is going to break the camels back, and we should get our resumes ready."
As one person with a knowledge of legal law tells us, "You could probably buy [Scout] for a pittance of what Fox paid for it."
In the short term, Koo writes, expect Scout to "do a dramatic cost cutting (as if the message boards and UI wasn’t terrible enough), and bunker down during this economic atomic winter while upstart blogs and competing networks nibble on their market share."
http://www.thewizofodds.com/the_wiz_of_odds/2009/02/scout-offers-5plus-million-to-settle-lawsuit.html
