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Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:25 pm to SlowFlowPro
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how? on-air programming is dying and they're attracting the one demo that isn't leaving on-air programming they're ditching expenses that are irrelevant and have to focus on monetizing online content, b/c that or scaling back and becoming a channel for poors is their only on air, long-term option
IMO, ESPN's on-air programming is dying because of the direction the network went. Cut the crap, and you'd have the audience you once had. People saw them as another arm of the MSM.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:26 pm to lsuboi91
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Not sure if posted already. But this is pretty much what the board has been discussing for a while now with ESPN & their liberal bullshite. Hate to see some of the good people they have lose their jobs, but this was pretty inevitable.
this has mostly to do with people cutting the cord, and not their liberal bullshite.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:26 pm to pvilleguru
I mean white males and hockey tend to have some overlap. I think it is pretty clear ESPN is just giving up on Hockey at this point.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:27 pm to lsuboi91
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ESPN laying off over 100 on air employees
Will be replaced with H1B foreigners at half the cost.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:29 pm to CorporateTiger
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I think it is pretty clear ESPN is just giving up on Hockey at this point
They pretty much did that 15 years ago.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:29 pm to Hawkeye95
ESPN happens to be in a business that is most prone to cord cutting.
The ability to get sport scores and highlights on the internet is really killing their ratings regardless of politics.
The ability to get sport scores and highlights on the internet is really killing their ratings regardless of politics.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:30 pm to mule74
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They thought that live sports would keep people from cutting the cord
ESPN is what holds most people back from cutting the cord. Their liberal BS made it easy for me to say goodbye.
I used to watch a ton of ESPN. Got tired of people telling me how I should feel about a myriad of political issues so I stopped watching.
Yes, their liberal BS caused them damage and will continue to cause them damage.
Is that why everyone cut ESPN? Nope. Is it enough to hurt their earnings? Yes.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:36 pm to TigerMyth36
I agree, it may not be the main reason but it is a part of it. I mean half the country voted for Trump and by a large in the sports world most of the athletes come off as liberal and ESPN supported their defiance. I feel bad for anyone losing their job but it's ESPNs fault not people buying firesticks
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:37 pm to Hawkeye95
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this has mostly to do with people cutting the cord, and not their liberal bullshite.
no it doesn't. it has to do with
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he people being fired at ESPN today aren't being fired because they are bad at their jobs, they're being fired because ESPN's business is collapsing. That collapse has been aided by ESPN's absurd decision to turn into MSESPN, a left wing sports network, but that's more a symptom of the collapse than it is a cause of the collapse. ESPN's business is collapsing and the network is desperately trying to find a way to stay above water. You know how a drowning person flails in the water before slipping under? ESPN's left wing shift is that flailing. They think going left wing will save them.
The reality is the opposite, ESPN going left wing was like giving a drowning person a big rock to hold and thinking it would keep them from drowning. Instead, it just made them sink even faster.
That's why ratings are down 16% this year compared to last year and viewers are abandoning the network in droves.
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ESPN spent way too much on sports rights just as its cable and satellite subscriptions began to collapse. On track for $8 billion in programming costs in 2017, ESPN will rack up its 15 millionth lost subscriber since 2011. Every single day so far in 2017 over 10,000 people have left ESPN. The numbers are astonishing and the collapse is rapid. All those lost subscribers add up to big money -- that's over $1.3 billion a year in money that comes off ESPN's books every year. And ESPN is on the hook for billions and billions a year for all the years ahead. That's guaranteed payments to leagues that ESPN can't escape no matter how many employees it fires.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:42 pm to BugAC
My complaint isn't the liberal politics. I really don't watch enough ESPN to see what you all are complaining about. I didn't see leftwing politics on college gameday but what I got tired of was the disease or disaster or family tragedy of the week on college gameday. I stopped watching college gameday because I got tired of the one or more sob stories. I feel bad for people, but I wanted college football news and not stories about sad things.
I haven't watched a full episode of sports center in over ten years. I only watch the live sports on ESPN and the shows during the day like Around the Horn and NFL Daily and so on. I never saw the politics you saw.
I haven't watched a full episode of sports center in over ten years. I only watch the live sports on ESPN and the shows during the day like Around the Horn and NFL Daily and so on. I never saw the politics you saw.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:44 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
That's because you agree with the politics ole Ralphy boy.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:44 pm to burke985
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I mean half the country voted for Trump
No they didn't. Almost half of the people that voted voted for Trump, but well under half of the country voted for Trump.
Trump got around 63 million votes. The US population in 2015 according to Google was 321.4 million.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:45 pm to lsuboi91
Who would have thought that a company founded and housed in Connecticut would be liberal?
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:54 pm to BugAC
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That's why ratings are down 16% this year compared to last year and viewers are abandoning the network in droves.
That has no basis to back up this assertion. However, cord cutting does have facts
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From 2012 to 2016, the number of people without pay TV has increased by 8.4 million.
This why ESPN is having trouble. ESPN gets a whopping $8 per subscriber! That is per month.
Not surprising that trumptards are allergic to facts.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:55 pm to PanhandleTigah
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ESPN's on-air programming is dying because of the direction the network went.
you're wrong
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:57 pm to lsuboi91
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:59 pm to Revelator
1. ESPN has certainly become more political, and they have chosen progressive as their cause to promote
2. ESPN may have suffered some very minute backlash to this shift
3. this shift was due to ESPN suffering massive losses from cable cutters, to where they had to really latch onto the demos that still watched cable TV
4. the real bleeding ESPN is suffering from is contract with various CFB conferences, the NFL, and now the NBA. major expenses were increased (from these contracts) before ESPN fully realized what dreadful future they were facing (due to cord cutting)
2. ESPN may have suffered some very minute backlash to this shift
3. this shift was due to ESPN suffering massive losses from cable cutters, to where they had to really latch onto the demos that still watched cable TV
4. the real bleeding ESPN is suffering from is contract with various CFB conferences, the NFL, and now the NBA. major expenses were increased (from these contracts) before ESPN fully realized what dreadful future they were facing (due to cord cutting)
Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:01 pm to SlowFlowPro
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being political and marketing towards the black community is their best shot to keep ratings somewhat stable.
How many black households is ESPN reaching vs. the amount of white households they have lost as a result. Perhaps not a direct result (ie. cord cutting, cable too pricey, etc).
Not a zero sum game in this instance IMO
Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:11 pm to SlowFlowPro
ESPN is going to have to change their business model....the problem is if the league's that they are in contract with don't agree to it they probably won't be able to do much other than go the bankruptcy route.
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