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re: Yet another reason why ESPN is dying
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:07 am to HottyToddy7
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:07 am to HottyToddy7
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underestimated how many people put it on for background noise every morning and night. An hours of sports highlights
This. When this ceased to be a real option, I stopped watching. Plenty of places to find unsolicited political opinions - sports shouldn't be one.
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Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:11 am to RoosterCogburn585
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I was looking at the site earlier and all they have is "Listen to MadDog Rant about this" or "Listen to Stephen A Smith's Brutal take on that". Who enjoys either of those things?
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 8:23 am
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:12 am to RoosterCogburn585
On top of everything else they do wrong, ESPN seriously disrespects college baseball.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:13 am to Tortious
I’ll see ESPN on the TV at the gym, and it’s practically indistinguishable from CNN. Talking heads sitting around talking. No sports, no clips, just people talking. Sometimes they’ll make them stand up so it looks like they are doing something but it’s nothing. I can watch that on a dozen other channels. I used to have ESPN on in the background all the time, now I never watch it. Why would I?
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:14 am to SlimTigerSlap
I gave statistical facts at the end that should easily let you figure out what group of people I’m talking about. If you can’t figure that out, you’ve probably been living under a rock for a long time.
Young black males in their 20s and 30s are who ESPN caters to. They constitute the majority of people who watch sporting events, as well as live talk shows on ESPN. There you go.
Young black males in their 20s and 30s are who ESPN caters to. They constitute the majority of people who watch sporting events, as well as live talk shows on ESPN. There you go.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:15 am to JasonDBlaha
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Young black males in their 20s and 30s are who ESPN caters to. They constitute the majority of people who watch sporting events, as well as live talk shows on ESPN. There you go.
You are unbelievably wrong.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:17 am to RoosterCogburn585
SVP during football season. Other than that I never watch.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:18 am to SlimTigerSlap
LINK
I think you’re the one who’s wrong. Statistics don’t give a shite about how you feel. You know exactly what the problem is but are too scared to admit it. This is a cultural problem in the black community that has been going on for 30+ years now.
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The African-American composition of the (ESPN) audience now stands at 53%, up from 46%.
I think you’re the one who’s wrong. Statistics don’t give a shite about how you feel. You know exactly what the problem is but are too scared to admit it. This is a cultural problem in the black community that has been going on for 30+ years now.
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 7:24 am
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:20 am to RoosterCogburn585
ESPN needs to get rid of the women and the activists. I want super nerds like John Clayton and funny dudes like SVP or Stuart Scott.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:21 am to RoosterCogburn585
Espn is going down hill fast, but I may cut em some slack here. This time of year there is literally nothing going on in the sports world. You can only have so many articles on nfl pre season camps and the boring MLB.
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 7:23 am
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:22 am to JasonDBlaha
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The African-American composition of the (ESPN) audience now stands at 53%, up from 46%.
Louisiana education. That's for the show First Take, which is the "blackest " show on ESPN.
Blacks would rather watch reruns of Bluey than sit for baseball, hockey, golf, NASCAR, etc...
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 7:24 am
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:24 am to JasonDBlaha
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how the boys are programmed by their single-moms to think that sports is the only way out of poverty.
I don't think it's the moms. I used to tutor kids in really bad situations in the inner city. It's a whole other world of messed up. What follows is my experience firsthand with some really smart and talented kids that never had a chance.
Mom was generally not involved enough to encourage a career selection process, sports or otherwise. These kids see on tv that you can get rich if you ball hard, and they go for it. Nobody ever sits them down and tells them you have to make it through the 8th grade to get noticed by Calipari. Nor do they tell them that most high school basketball stars (really good players) still don't make it to college, and even less make it pro. There is no connection drawn between the middle school years and the Lebron phase. Of course only 100 guys every year go pro in the entire world.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:26 am to RoosterCogburn585
ESPN actually started as a music and sports network (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network). They sponsored a concert in Baton Rouge in the early 80's of some legends of 1950's rock and roll, headlined by Fabian. Bo Diddley, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and some others played at this event. Chuck Berry was supposed to, but backed out at the last minute. Maybe ESPN is trying to "get back to their roots." 
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:32 am to tadman
It’s a system that’s designed to fail black youth. If you’ve ever seen the film Coach Carter, it addressed the cultural problems black families have now when it comes to sports. Ken Carter told his players that there are other ways out of poverty besides basketball, and that includes graduating high school and going to college.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:34 am to RoosterCogburn585
MSB regulars gonna be real mad about this thread.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:37 am to JasonDBlaha
Granted, data is 10 yrs old, but it is a statistic impossibility for these numbers to have flipped.
google
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Watching sports on TV
The Nielsen report also broke down fan viewing demographics by race/ethnicity. It found that other than the NBA, Whites watch pro and college sports more than Blacks and Latinos:
• NFL: Whites (77 percent); Blacks (15 percent); Latinos (8 percent)
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• NBA: Blacks (45 percent); Whites (40 percent); Latinos (12 percent)
• MLB: Whites (83 percent); Blacks and Latinos (9 percent each)
• NHL: Whites (92 percent); Blacks (3 percent); Latinos (2 percent)
• Motor sports: Whites (94 percent); Blacks and Latinos (2 percent each)
• Golf: Whites (87 percent); Blacks (7 percent); Latinos (3 percent)
• Soccer: Whites (65 percent); Latinos (34 percent); Blacks (8 percent)
• Men’s college basketball: Whites (80 percent); Blacks (14 percent); Latinos (4 percent)
• College football: Whites (82 percent); Blacks (13 percent); Latinos (4 percent)
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:40 am to jbird7
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the boring MLB.
frick ESPN, haven’t watched in years.
But this baseball season is one of MLB’s best in a while.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:43 am to kywildcatfanone
quote:what a hot take for TD
ESPN is unwatchable
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:47 am to kywildcatfanone
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ESPN is unwatchable
You are correct....
SP
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Claim: Disney’s ESPN pay-TV linear channel has lost 914,000 customers in the US since December, according to Nielsen data compiled by Robert Seidman.
Confirmed:
ESPN and ESPN2 saw a 1.2 per cent fall in customers since December, with the latter dropping by 926,000
Go woke....
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:50 am to RoosterCogburn585
Do people watch ESPN for anything other than live sports (and college gameday during the season)
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