re: ESPN cancels the Keyshawn, Williams & Kellerman show

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I don’t think ESPN particularly cares about radio anymore, the line up as a whole has been bad for over a decade now.

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National sports talk radio, or really, national talk radio in general, is really struggling. Many of the people who would listen and call in to those shows and engage, are now doing the same thing via message boards and social media.

ESPN does have a lot of radio rights for live sports. So honestly I could see a couple of things happening, maybe both of them.

1) Dial ESPN Radio back to only a Sirius XM channel, with lower costs.

2) Get rid of the concept of ESPN Radio as a channel, and move to a Westward One model of distribution for the live sports events.