I can barely stand Sportscenter in the mornings. The only reason I turn it on while I'm getting ready is to catch some highlights, but 75% of that time is just those shitty anchors talking about nonsense that has nothing to do with the highlights. That Randy guy is just tragically bad
Well they gotta keep Field Yates then so we can watch Woody bench press him more often. Because that is really what I am tuning in for!
I googled after my post and a cord cutting site came up with an article about a 2017 standalone streaming service and I was like wow that's great. Then you read further and literally nothing that is on main ESPN channels will be on it. It'll be like all the weird sports that used to be on ESPN2 at night when we were kids and then extra games they have rights to but don't want to broadcast.
I wish they would have cut Lee Corso 5 years ago. College Gameday has turned him into their geriatric mascot.
All the anchors whining about Westbrook's presser after Game 4 with Steven Adams was also The question being asked is the equivalent of some field reporter asking a player after winning a championship: "How do you feel right now?"
I've literally never heard anything remotely positive about SC6, why is this a thing they should be strategizing around?
Yep. And they will also only show highlights that support their narrative, skipping all over key points in the game.
Because they think what's hot in the street is two people sitting around talking about if basketball players/coaches were Mario Kart characters who would be Wario. Spoiler The answer is George Karl
Great, so if you tune in to ESPN we have to hear from Jamele Hill that Colin Kapernick is a hero, or any other black athlete. And then Hill destroying any white athlete because she's the most obvious racist I've seen on television since Clayton Bigsby.
He's a staple on there so I get it. They just need to cut him back tremendously, which they've been doing. Corso 10-15 years ago was fantastic.
I absolutely refuse to let First Take be on my TV screen. I don't have a Nielsen box but I'll still briskly walk across my entire home to change the channel if I hear that stupid theme song begin.
As a former media layoff victim, I can tell you pretty much anybody that has a contract expiring soon will be on the chopping block simply because it is so much easier. That's a big reason why some might be shocking fires vs others staying on. Jemele Hill and Michael Smith signed multiyear contracts in October. They were never going anywhere regardless.
ESPN has gone to shit similarly to the way MTV did. Instead of music videos and highlights, it's stupid fucking shows. Why change what go you here?
I accidentally watched it for a minute or two because I changed channels early. I felt like taking an acid bath afterward.
Was staying with a friend this weekend and watched more espn than I have in the past year that wasn't a live sporting event. In that time, I saw very few highlights, and at one point they had an anchor doing a remote somewhere, just talking to the in-studio anchor, about nothing that happened in a game. So puzzling why ESPN is dying.
probably not a great example though considering how many more people watch MTV and all their shitty shows (except the Challenge) than would watch if it were just music videos.
With the right layoffs espn could have really turned it around . It's to bad they apparently still haven't realized 95% of their audience which consists of heterosexual males and sec fans could give 0 shits about the bravo channel style sports "reporting".
man, some of you really really hate people on tv that seem to be pretty non-offensive (i.e. not skip bayless, steven a. smith types).
I don't think going to mostly highlights would save them. Sports leagues are becoming very adept at doing that themselves. MLB has positioned themselves incredibly with their instant highlights through Twitter and the like. No one is going to pay an insane cable bill to get highlights they can get for free with the NFL/NBA/MLB/etc publishing them almost instantaneously.
idk, I've heard MTV is in shambles. I guess I'm just old enough to remember when MTV and ESPN were both awesome.
Hopefully the troll Darren Rovell like wendall in office space or they take him out back and shoot him
I don't hate anyone but I do think there are a lot of people employed by ESPN that aren't very good at their jobs. So keeping those people while firing the actual reporters seems stupid.
Becuase greedy rich people can never be rich enough. They constantly have to be finding new ways to get richer. Eventually, they cause their own downfall.