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ESPN Layoffs: Do they really think these moves will prevent cord cutting?
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:41 pm
I know it won't for me. I have Dish largely because my parents are too old to really learn streaming and my dad needs it to watch Fox News, CNBC and Bloomberg.
With that said, I downgraded my Dish subscription late last year to their Flex Pack where you can add and remove specific packages month to month. My parents were visiting this month so I had the "News Pack" for the month. Now that their visit is done and the NFL draft is finally here I'll be dumping the "News Pack" and "Sports Pack" which includes ESPN, ESPN 2 and FS 1 after this weekend until college football starts. Get my bill down to around $47/month.
What's amazing is this, 10 years ago I couldn't imagine not having ESPN. Now I almost wish they would split FS 1 away from ESPN and ESPN 2 as I watch FS 1 a lot more. Does anyone else wish they could get FS 1 without having to get the ESPN channels? Does ESPN really think these layoffs are going to help with people dumping ESPN in mass?
I just hope that all these ESPN layoffs and all the cord cutting gets us that much closer to true a la carte TV.
With that said, I downgraded my Dish subscription late last year to their Flex Pack where you can add and remove specific packages month to month. My parents were visiting this month so I had the "News Pack" for the month. Now that their visit is done and the NFL draft is finally here I'll be dumping the "News Pack" and "Sports Pack" which includes ESPN, ESPN 2 and FS 1 after this weekend until college football starts. Get my bill down to around $47/month.
What's amazing is this, 10 years ago I couldn't imagine not having ESPN. Now I almost wish they would split FS 1 away from ESPN and ESPN 2 as I watch FS 1 a lot more. Does anyone else wish they could get FS 1 without having to get the ESPN channels? Does ESPN really think these layoffs are going to help with people dumping ESPN in mass?
I just hope that all these ESPN layoffs and all the cord cutting gets us that much closer to true a la carte TV.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 7:43 pm
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Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:42 pm to AnarchySupporter
quote:You'll show them!
I know it won't for me
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:42 pm to AnarchySupporter
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ESPN Layoffs: Do they really think these moves will prevent cord cutting?
Huh?
This isn't to prevent cord cutting, this is so they can make up some ground from the money they've lost from cord cutting.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:43 pm to AnarchySupporter
That is not their intent on this
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:43 pm to AnarchySupporter
you think they did this to prevent cord cutting? 
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:44 pm to AnarchySupporter
they are laying off people because they cant afford their contracts because of the cord cutting.
its also why we can all laugh at the B1G for adding Rutgers and Maryland to the conference considering TV dollars will no longer be there. i lol daily i think
its also why we can all laugh at the B1G for adding Rutgers and Maryland to the conference considering TV dollars will no longer be there. i lol daily i think
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:45 pm to AnarchySupporter
So your suggestion was to keep all of these people? 
ESPN has limited options. Some of their high prices talent they actually want, some of that high priced talent is under contract so they would be getting paid anyway and they can't just tell all of the sports leagues to get fricked because they're not going to pay them.
ESPN has limited options. Some of their high prices talent they actually want, some of that high priced talent is under contract so they would be getting paid anyway and they can't just tell all of the sports leagues to get fricked because they're not going to pay them.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:47 pm to AnarchySupporter
You're dumb
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:48 pm to rocket31
They are laying off people, because Disney and the Board are tired of watching the money bleeding from ESPN,
Board members do not give a frick about SEC, MLB or NFL. They care about making money and the company being in the Black. ESPN is bleeding cash like a gutted pig.Disney warned them, and continue to do what they warned they would do to ESPN.
More cuts will come, it could come to where the hosts for SC end up doing the days SC. No new crew coming in, same guys for early and late sports center.
Board members do not give a frick about SEC, MLB or NFL. They care about making money and the company being in the Black. ESPN is bleeding cash like a gutted pig.Disney warned them, and continue to do what they warned they would do to ESPN.
More cuts will come, it could come to where the hosts for SC end up doing the days SC. No new crew coming in, same guys for early and late sports center.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:49 pm to Walking the Earth
One of the points I was trying to make is, as bad as coord cutting is now, it's actually going to get far worse in the next 5 to 10 years when a lot of the baby boomers start dying off.
We talk about all the coord cutters, how many others are in the position I'm in who have parents/grandparents visit or live with them and have to have cable or satellite because they could never learn to do all the streaming/Sling stuff?
What's going to happen when a lot of those people start to pass away and their family members/children can actually cut the coord. These layoffs will essentially have to be just the beginning for ESPN.
Eventually they are going to have to actually let TV right go and it'll all become the hot take/controversy talk on the shows. In 10 years we'll all be laughing about how ESPN used to show sports in the same fashion we laughed at MTV back in the early 2000s about how they used to show music. Part of me is sad to see ESPN going down the MTV path, but the other part of me is laughing at them and enjoying seeing the ship sink.
We talk about all the coord cutters, how many others are in the position I'm in who have parents/grandparents visit or live with them and have to have cable or satellite because they could never learn to do all the streaming/Sling stuff?
What's going to happen when a lot of those people start to pass away and their family members/children can actually cut the coord. These layoffs will essentially have to be just the beginning for ESPN.
Eventually they are going to have to actually let TV right go and it'll all become the hot take/controversy talk on the shows. In 10 years we'll all be laughing about how ESPN used to show sports in the same fashion we laughed at MTV back in the early 2000s about how they used to show music. Part of me is sad to see ESPN going down the MTV path, but the other part of me is laughing at them and enjoying seeing the ship sink.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:53 pm to AnarchySupporter
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Do they really think these moves will prevent cord cutting?
Probably not since that is not the reason for the layoffs today.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:55 pm to AnarchySupporter
To me, they should understand they have been pricing people out of the market. They will have to figure out a more substantial way of pricing themselves back in the market.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:59 pm to tigerskin
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To me, they should understand they have been pricing people out of the market. They will have to figure out a more substantial way of pricing themselves back in the market.
ESPN is screwd, they owe so much for Sports contracts. And now with cord cutters, they have ZERO leverage when they go into negotiations with providers. ESPN is reaping what it sowed.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 7:59 pm to AnarchySupporter
quote:there it is. Their programming sucks.
What's amazing is this, 10 years ago I couldn't imagine not having ESPN
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:02 pm to AnarchySupporter
Your life in gif form.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:16 pm to AnarchySupporter
Haha you are an idiot. They are simply trying to cut some budget because of cord cutters. Has zero to do with an agenda.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:25 pm to AnarchySupporter
Cord Cutting will never stop
In Seattle I worked for NBC/Comcast and saw the Comcast subscribers in Seattle dwindling daily. And Seattle is one of the top markets in the country in cable penetration.
My new market I work in cable subscribership is about to go under 50% - it was 50.9% in our last Nielsen VIP book and is down from 63% just 4 years ago.
There is no value in cable. The problem is that the cable companies are all huge congolmerates who wield too much power over the telecommunications industry and have too many politicians and lobbyists in their back pocket. They would rather die completely than go ala carte. Because it would mean having to kill off their many O&O cable networks.
In Seattle I worked for NBC/Comcast and saw the Comcast subscribers in Seattle dwindling daily. And Seattle is one of the top markets in the country in cable penetration.
My new market I work in cable subscribership is about to go under 50% - it was 50.9% in our last Nielsen VIP book and is down from 63% just 4 years ago.
There is no value in cable. The problem is that the cable companies are all huge congolmerates who wield too much power over the telecommunications industry and have too many politicians and lobbyists in their back pocket. They would rather die completely than go ala carte. Because it would mean having to kill off their many O&O cable networks.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:28 pm to bigberg2000
Ive noticed that alot of Poli boarders have invaded the MSB today.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:35 pm to goldennugget
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There is no value in cable. The problem is that the cable companies are all huge congolmerates who wield too much power over the telecommunications industry and have too many politicians and lobbyists in their back pocket. They would rather die completely than go ala carte. Because it would mean having to kill off their many O&O cable networks.
Then they deserve to die a painful death if they are so arrogant that they would rather go under than adapt to a changing market and offer a la carte programming.
Again the only reason I still have Dish is because my parents (who are in their mid 70s) are too old to really get used to streaming and want a couple channels. I get one of the cheapest packages though and call to get discounts every 6 months so it's not terrible. Whenever they do pass on (hopefully a long time from now) I will cut the coord as well. I think many others are in that same position.
It's just hard to believe they would be that arrogant, but then again, the newspaper never adapted either and we have seen what's happened to them.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:42 pm to AnarchySupporter
Nah. Getting rid of net neutrality is a far bigger threat to cord cutters.
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