ESPN layoffs- not enough in my book

April 26, 2017, 05:26 PM

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.

April 26, 2017, 07:48 PM

mikeyspizza

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.

April 26, 2017, 08:12 PM

2012BOSS302

quote:
Originally posted by KDR:
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.

April 26, 2017, 08:17 PM

HRK

Karma, it ca be a bitch

April 26, 2017, 09:19 PM

mcrimm

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.

Mike

I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham

April 26, 2017, 10:32 PM

AirmanJeff

How did Jemele Hill not get the axe? I guess ESPN was scared of the lawsuit. She is incredibly stupid and contributes nothing.

April 26, 2017, 10:47 PM

rscalzo

quote:
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.

April 26, 2017, 10:47 PM

98XJRC

quote:
Originally posted by stickman428:
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.

April 26, 2017, 10:51 PM

Andyb

quote:
Originally posted by 98XJRC:
quote:
Originally posted by stickman428:
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.

"Pickin' stones and pullin' teats is a hard way to make a living. But, sure as God's got sandals, it beats fightin' dudes with treasure trails."

"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled."

April 26, 2017, 10:58 PM

Aquabird

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.

April 26, 2017, 11:00 PM

nhtagmember

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

April 27, 2017, 10:52 AM

parabellum

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.

April 27, 2017, 10:57 AM

JALLEN

It's still better than American Hitler Channel!

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

April 27, 2017, 11:07 AM

smschulz

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.

He is one of the worst who interjects his lefest political shit into sports.

April 27, 2017, 12:20 PM

vinnybass

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.

April 27, 2017, 12:22 PM

isthatasiginyourpocket

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!

April 27, 2017, 02:30 PM

SummersAtTheLake

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.

April 27, 2017, 02:45 PM

YellowJacket

quote:
Originally posted by SummersAtTheLake:
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.