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The business folks at ESPN have made a few bad decisions. They had a great run growing for 20 years.

Cable TV subscriptions peaked in 2011, they are rapidly losing subscribers. ESPN kept right on buying programming though. They over bid for Monday Night Football $1. 9 Billion this year. They will pay the NBA $1.4 Billion.




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Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.
 
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but rather it's just cord-cutters. ESPN charges about $7 per subscriber for their service.


Is one of the reasons I cut the cord, got tired of paying for what I was not using.




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In the very near future, competition will demand more a la carte programming. I have always lived in the country where cable is not an option. I started with a 10' dish and now have Dish Network. If I could get decent networks, I'd dump Dish in a heartbeat.

ESPN is a joke today. I've been a football fan since way before I graduated from HS in Green Bay. I don't need some dumb 'analyst' telling me why the Packers will slip by the Browns.

I predict in a year, I'll be an ex-Dish customer.

I won't be streaming ESPN.

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How did Jemele Hill not get the axe? I guess ESPN was scared of the lawsuit. She is incredibly stupid and contributes nothing.
 
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In the very near future, competition will demand more a la carte programming



Comcast will begin beta testing that very format. Guessing with all the new X1 boxes they rolled out, that is now possible.


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To many people pro sports is a great distraction from politics and the day to day grind. ESPN's decision to inject a good deal of leftist politics into their programming has hurt them. Sure people cutting cable TV and going to the internet for entertainment is a factor but ESPN's politics is a factor too.

I'm at the point where I won't support, view or give clicks to media outlets I hate. Full ban. I'd rather be uninformed than misinformed.


I'll admit I'm a little disappointed about Danny Kannell. I enjoy listening to him and Rusillo from 1 to 4. Danny has also hinted in the past that he leans right which has more more inclined to listen than say the Lebatard show on prior. Those clowns continue to inject their political beliefs on almost a daily basis and flat out can't stand to listen to them anymore.
 
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To many people pro sports is a great distraction from politics and the day to day grind. ESPN's decision to inject a good deal of leftist politics into their programming has hurt them. Sure people cutting cable TV and going to the internet for entertainment is a factor but ESPN's politics is a factor too.

I'm at the point where I won't support, view or give clicks to media outlets I hate. Full ban. I'd rather be uninformed than misinformed.


I'll admit I'm a little disappointed about Danny Kannell. I enjoy listening to him and Rusillo from 1 to 4. Danny has also hinted in the past that he leans right which has more more inclined to listen than say the Lebatard show on prior. Those clowns continue to inject their political beliefs on almost a daily basis and flat out can't stand to listen to them anymore.


Same. R&K was the one espn radio show I liked.



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Yeah, ESPN, quit watching their crap a few years ago or more. I quit watching all pro sports and now in the last couple years most college sports.
I have loved sports all my life, but pretty much do not watch anymore.
I was told about 10 years ago that the channels that were put into packages were controlled by congress, so that newer channels could survive.
I always thought it was true that it was controlled. I could pick out about 10-15 channels and dump the rest, but we all know that many channels would go under.


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I can't say that I have ever deliberately tuned in an ESPN program - and out of the list of people I recognized one - Dottie Pepper - a former golfer on the LPGA years ago (think Dinah Shore era)

I wish I could get my Dish package without ESPN



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The best part of this is that it is apparently they know how many people are glad ESPN has suffered the consequences of their ridiculous, counterproductive and entirely out of place PC nonsense and it's really pissing them off that we're laughing. Big Grin


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No reason to be mad at most the individuals who were layed off? Not their fault.
I wish they would shut that little fucker Mike Lupica up though. Mad
He is one of the worst who interjects his lefest political shit into sports.
 
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I find the fact that Stephen A. Smith, Jemele Hill, & Dan Lebatard didn't get the axe very telling about the collective mindset at espn. Suck it you lefty-pandering douchenozzles. You're circling the drain.



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Cord cutters my ass! People had enough of the Kaepernick and Kaetlyn Jenner bullshit. They even did a tribute to Fidel Castro and his love of sports. ESPN can go f@#$ themselves!
 
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ESPN has been interviewing new blood since at least last fall so it shouldn't come as a surprise to those let go....even with confidentiality agreements I'm surprised this didn't get out sooner.
 
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ESPN has been interviewing new blood since at least last fall so it shouldn't come as a surprise to those let go....even with confidentiality agreements I'm surprised this didn't get out sooner.

Clay Travis at Outkick the Coverage has been on it since at least early March.



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They had so many people on the payroll that an NFL pre-game show was longer than the actual game.
 
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