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re: What I Don't Understand about ESPN's Strategy
Posted on 2/19/17 at 1:11 pm to Tiger Prawn
Posted on 2/19/17 at 1:11 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Because they have like 5-6 networks to fill time slots in during days/times where there isnt any live sports to air.
Back in the day it was just ESPN, so they only really needed content to fill air time on one network. Now they have ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN U, ESPN News, ESPN Classic, SEC Network, and probably one or 2 more I missed. Its great to have so many networks on nights and weekends when they can broadcast 5-6 different live events at the same time...but they still need something to air during morning and afternoons during weekdays.
That's a big part of the problem. Too many channels and they have to fill airtime with crap.
With fewer channels, they could fill early morning airtime with overseas content like the Premier League, Russian hockey, cricket matches from India, Japanese baseball, etc and just have one or two prime time highlight shows.
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Posted on 2/19/17 at 1:46 pm to Bestbank Tiger
They ain't getting Premier League any time soon with their money tied up in all the domestic leagues and NBC currently owning those rights.
As for the rest, why would they air stuff that would cost more to broadcast than the talk shows but wouldn't draw ratings that are significantly better? If those kinds of events actually drew worthwhile numbers they wouldn't be relegated to streaming on ESPN3.
As for the rest, why would they air stuff that would cost more to broadcast than the talk shows but wouldn't draw ratings that are significantly better? If those kinds of events actually drew worthwhile numbers they wouldn't be relegated to streaming on ESPN3.
This post was edited on 2/19/17 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 2/19/17 at 3:20 pm to Tiger Prawn
A long time ago ESPN had a show similar to Hard Knocks. I think it was called The Season or something except is was all Michigan or Notre Dame football. I also liked the show when ESPN hired one of their own anchors. I don't know much about TV and broadcasting, so it was original programming I enjoyed. Wish they would go back to doing that.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 4:01 pm to TomRollTideRitter
ESPN needs to reach into their archives and watch what they did in the mid to late 80's. That is the winning formula not all of these talking heads. Talk radio has taken that market we don't need more from ESPN TV.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 4:17 pm to WestCoastAg
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yes. that is the next step with someone like ESPN. we will eventually start paying for games on a nightly basis or we will eventually start buying season packages for a single team/league. it is what it is. but we arent going to start seeing ESPN start throwing a shite ton of money into original programming because right now all of their money is tied up into live sports
And if the sports leagues went along with this they would be absolutely stupid. Limiting the availability of a sport by going to a pay-per-view model is a sure fire way to eventually kill it. For example, look what has happened to boxing and its popularity.
Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:19 pm to SoDakHawk
ESPN needs to do more things like the specials they aired during their 25th anniversary.
Posted on 2/20/17 at 7:54 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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