ESPN lost 2 million subscribers to cord cutting this year

It couldn’t happen to a nicer liberal company. 

ESPN lost 2 million subscribers to cord cutting this year

Though it wasn’t the only Disney mainstay that took a hit this year — the Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD all lost lost 3 million subs, while Freeform shed 2 million — ESPN’s decline is more of a metric of how many people have quit cable, since it’s in nearly every package.