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re: Truth in tweeting, re: ESPN and the WNBA.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:33 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:33 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
The NBA supports them
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Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:44 pm to Zaqwert
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Their aggressive pushing of women's sports obviously hurts ratings, it makes people less likely to watch, not more.
This ^^^^^
I would say it this way, I probably would not watch the WNBA under any circumstance, but I might stop on it for a couple of minutes while channel surfing if there weren't this blatant pandering.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:47 pm to East Coast Band
Posted this 2 or 3 months ago…
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ESPN can show the WNBA and keep making it 2nd or 3rd story on Sportscenter but it don’t matter…. Borderline unwatchable and ratings reflects that. Ratings drives advertising dollars. TV money drives salaries.
If the NBA and ESPN wasn’t continuously propping it up most teams would have been bankrupt a decade ago.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:03 pm to Klark Kent
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or a silly DIE initiative
Dude they are FORCED to pay an overpay for the WNBA by the NBA and give the league primo slots on air. That's not DIE.
A segment on sportscenter costs them almost nothing, certainly nothing extra.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:04 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
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How does the WNBA even make money?
ESPN if forced to overpay for the WNBA in order to get NBA games. It's that simple
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:51 pm to East Coast Band
I have the yahoo app and I get more notifications for the women's soccer league than like every sport combined
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:56 pm to tween the hedges
My favorite thing about the WNBA is when the talking heads on ESPN sit around and pretend to give a single frick about it, or when they pretend that literally anything they see in WNBA highlights is remotely impressive.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 8:15 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
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How does the WNBA even make money??
they don't make money and never have
like mentioned before... the WNBA has never had a profitable year, month, week, or day in its 26-year history... yet the salaries have actually continued to go up
in 2023, the average WNBA player salary is approximately $150,000... with the highest paid around $250,000. that's for three months of work in a league that loses tens of millions of a dollars every year.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 8:24 pm to Giantkiller
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Was just commenting on this to someone yesterday. Nobody gives a flying motherfrick about the WNBA. The much bigger story for me to watch is how embarrassingly desperate ESPN are for anyone whatsoever to to follow it in some way. That’s much more entertaining.
One of the funniest things about living in Portland is all of the beta males walking around in Thorns gear. There was a guy in church last week wearing a Thorns jersey and a facemask. I wanted to go subtly troll him in the coffee line but I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and to only spread kindness irl.
This post was edited on 7/16/23 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 7/16/23 at 9:33 pm to SlowFlowPro
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A segment on sportscenter costs them almost nothing, certainly nothing extra.
you ever heard of opportunity cost?
A WNBA segment on Sportscenter, or two hours of TV time for a game, costs them in terms of things that could do better ratings in those time periods, like almost anything you can think of
Posted on 7/16/23 at 9:59 pm to BornKjun
And yet Disney is losing money and laying people off. Just another sign of how important their agenda is.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 10:02 pm to chalmetteowl
A stat that surprised me to the extent I wasn't sure I heard right: per a NBA administrator, the average wnba fan is a white male in the 40-50 year old range. He danced all around the question : "where are all the gay female fans?
Posted on 7/17/23 at 4:42 am to hg
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They shove it down your throat especially Brittney Griners dunk that looked like she laid it in.
It is a league that will never be popular. Nobody wants to watch that. But they have enough money to put it in the forefront and most people will keep watching anyway. They know that.
It is a flawed business model but they don't give a shite
Posted on 7/17/23 at 6:46 am to SeeeeK
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in last nba contract, nba forced espn to continue showing and putting like 20 mil into the sport. no wnba, no nba contract, and others get a chance to bid it. no first right of refusal
CBS had the NBA for 10 years, then NBC had it for 12, and ESPN/ABC has had it since 2002, and it’s easily been the worst of the three from a graphics/production/music standpoint.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 7:02 am to East Coast Band
This is like corporate America’s version of Title IX….
Posted on 7/17/23 at 7:18 am to Hangover Haven
Posted on 7/17/23 at 8:59 am to Chad504boy
She had more yards per carry on that "dunk" than Barry Sanders.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:15 am to East Coast Band
My aunt and female cousin, who both played college basketball, don't give a frick about the WNBA. Why should I?
Posted on 7/17/23 at 9:29 am to chalmetteowl
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A WNBA segment on Sportscenter, or two hours of TV time for a game, costs them in terms of things that could do better ratings in those time periods, like almost anything you can think of
SFP and ESPN just want to sweep that under the rug. it’s irrelevant.
Posted on 7/17/23 at 10:47 am to SoFla Tideroller
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She had more yards per carry on that "dunk" than Barry Sanders.
honestly she could have took 12 steps and they were swallowing the whistle still.
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