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re: ESPN quietly exploring dumping NFL games
Posted on 10/31/17 at 7:45 am to League Champs
Posted on 10/31/17 at 7:45 am to League Champs
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ESPN could go on a spending spree
seems like a bad idea when your business model is being turned on its ear...
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Posted on 10/31/17 at 7:48 am to LSUneaux
quote:I can only speak for myself but games starting at 830 eastern are too fricking late for me to watch.
but only a few people watch Monday night?
I'd be much more likely to watch if they kicked at 7:15PM eastern or something
Posted on 10/31/17 at 7:48 am to League Champs
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ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game.
Wow the advertising must be expensive
Posted on 10/31/17 at 7:53 am to League Champs
I was going to say, they basically own college football and seem like they could just be a college sports network. But, all of a sudden Fox is a much bigger player there taking more and more games. So, not sure where they'd spend the extra cash.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 7:54 am to FootballNostradamus
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Lol that company will go bankrupt in 10 years. Guaranteed.
Unless they go hard on soccer
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:06 am to League Champs
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But the good news is the network would have some serious spending money it hasn’t had in years. Take the $2 billion that it is now giving the NFL, subtract say $350 million for (N
Just think of all the no-talent arse-clowns they could hire to debate race issues in sports!
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:06 am to ever43
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Less than that. Don't forget ESPN pays the NFL 300-400 million a year for rights to all NFL media (NFL Films etc,) in order to show highlights all week and feed their numerous discussion shows.
Okay. Let’s say the spend $350 million for those rights, (split it down the middle of that $300 to $400 range!
That means they are paying $1.65 billion to broadcast 17 regular season games and a single wildcard playoff game.
So they are paying almost $92 million per game.
That is a fricking terrible investment.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:07 am to 632627
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the production is weak
done intentionally
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the matchups usually suck
REALLY done intentionally
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SNF was given the spotlight.
FIFY
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:29 am to SPEEDY
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Over $100 million per game
Their playoff scenario is even worse. They have no say so in what playoff game they show opening weekend. They essentially get the wild card game that CBS or FOX don't want with the price already fixed. So this past January they paid 100 million dollars for the rights to broadcast a playoff game quarterbacked by Connor Cook and Brock Osweiller.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:38 am to SPEEDY
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That is a fricking terrible investment.
It's bad. NBC pays something like $600MM.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:45 am to slackster
I'm shocked the same dipshits that came up with and are paying for the LHN are in financial trouble, shocked I tell you.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:45 am to League Champs
This is what happens when you only appeal to a certain side. Look, I'm all for equality in everything that deserves it, but ESPN has gone too far. For example, if you ever tune in to their football countdown shows, they have made them more urban than anything. There really is no balance. The other morning I was flipping through channels and it seemed like every time I turned on ESPN, they were talking about the owner McNair's comments about "inmates running the prison". I'm not saying don't go over it, but a whole hour? That's crazy.
People are tired of sports and politics mixing. People are tired of ESPN not being balanced. And, until they realize that, they'll continue to lose viewers.
People are tired of sports and politics mixing. People are tired of ESPN not being balanced. And, until they realize that, they'll continue to lose viewers.
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:48 am to saint tiger225
Politics has very little to do with this
It's cord cutting and changing demographics
Young people don't pay for cable
Even younger people consume nearly all
Media via youtube
It's cord cutting and changing demographics
Young people don't pay for cable
Even younger people consume nearly all
Media via youtube
Posted on 10/31/17 at 8:49 am to rocket31
NFL "we're quietly working on dumping ESPN"
Posted on 10/31/17 at 9:54 am to bamarep
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the useless female play by play women and concentrate on actual sports?
Posted on 10/31/17 at 9:57 am to Tridentds
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Now the show is a mixture of sports, garbage, and social commentary. ESPN got carried away with having 4 people standing around doing Sportscenter. Also trot out actors on the show to talk sports and let them push their new movie... WGAF? Throw in a half dozen shows during the day with people yelling excitedly while arguing over who is the greatest person, team, franchise, etc... all the while pushing social issues and it just sucks.
quote:I know you're just giving your personal opinion, but just to point out, the stuff you mentioned here that you don't like is basically their highest rated shows, so it would seem like those shows are not the problem, but everything else.
ESPN has totally lost the plot. Just about to give up on College Game Day as well. It is now unwatchable for me
Posted on 10/31/17 at 10:13 am to rocket31
quote:
Politics has very little to do with this
Politics has everything to do with it
You must have missed the part where ESPN is losing 15,000 subscribers a day during October. Why the acceleration during football season?
And most NFL games are on broadcast TV, so cord cutting should have no effect on their ratings, tickets, merchandise
But its like my momma always said, be careful what you wish for. ESPN put Kaep front and center. Now they no longer even want to show the pledge, and they will soon dump the programming they used to feature Kaep (and friends) antics
Posted on 10/31/17 at 10:15 am to League Champs
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Politics has everything to do with it
Posted on 10/31/17 at 10:35 am to League Champs
FS1 lost more subscribers than ESPN this quarter
A Fox channel
If politics were the reason that number would be much different
Think
A Fox channel
If politics were the reason that number would be much different
Think
Posted on 10/31/17 at 10:42 am to Jwho77
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(Here’s an olive branch to ESPN executives, try and convince the SEC to play its CBS game of the week on campus on Monday nights. That’s at least one way to replace a big audience on Monday nights.)
Lmao. Can you imagine what some Updyke would do if this happened.
ESPN would have a lot bigger problems than declining ratings
This post was edited on 10/31/17 at 10:43 am
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