Yesterday, one of my roommates turned on one of those shows that comes on before SC6. I felt a bit of shame to call him a roommate.
you'd have to think a guy like john buccigross goes to NBC to help lead their hockey coverage (among other things) right?
This is the perfect analogy. Nothing but a pile of steaming hot takes and Brian Windbag reporting from Cleveland about what Lebron did during his summer vacation. Get the fuck out of here.
I did and it is It seems people don't understand how ESPN works itt. We, even as big sports fans, are long past their target. We are educated and employed and tech savvy. We aren't home for the 3pm shows. Many of us are cord cutters. We've all seen the scores and highlights on twitter, reddit or whatever before 11pm Nobody is going to stop watching ESPN because Ed is gone. He is effectively worthless on the margin compared to who they bring in. This should've happened years ago. But there are inbreds watching Stephen A and the race baiters and SJW that drive the current money model
I remember from an article a few months back talking about upcoming layoffs, ESPN failures and one thing mentioned that hadn't been brought up here was 3D TV. ESPN spent a shit ton of money preparing and upgrading for 3D tv capabilities. Obviously that was a huge flop.
Also, idk if people know this but a lot of ESPN's live sports is paid for by the rights holders. Like ESPN pays a ton for NFL obviously, but motocross might be on tv because they paid ESPN for the slot
Meh, general population I guess. MTV bought Paledia but still plays nothing but festivals and concerts so I watch it, but I haven't turned on MTV since 2008.
Basically every goal in the world is on r/soccer within seconds. You can watch full spoil free matches, condensed games, or highlights on fullmatchesandshows For hockey, the website DTMTS has stellar spoiler free highlights that I watch if I miss a game R/baseball is ok and gets highlights quickly Nfl and cfb are not good highlight subreddits but any big football play eventually makes it to my twitter
This means that there will be a lot of unemployed experts that have endless sources. Shocking. One of the things espn does that pisses me off is they will interview someone and find 3 good plays by them and run them on a loop in the background. Over and over. My advice to them is to hire Sierra Skye and Charlotte Mckinney to host sportscenter.
Because it's pandering that has nothing to do with what is happening today. He knows that because he's not an idiot, but he tweets it because it makes him more popular because everyone on twitter hates Skip Bayless. He's a sports media critic who pretends to not understand that people who are on shows that rate well should make more money than people who no one knows or cares about in order to get twitter cred.
This is where I'm at. None of the names I have seen have specifically annoyed me that I can recall so its too bad they have to lose their jobs, but wake me when ESPN announces they are no longer going to show 20 college football games every week. They are actually really good at that.
ESPN is not as profitable as it used to be, but it is still the most profitable property owned by Disney. They have to cut because the rest of Disney's television holdings are even more of a shit pit and Disney needs to meet profitability targets across the company. They're not making bad decisions on who to fire, Americans just have shitty taste.
I read earlier that these cuts weren't coming from Disney like the last ones did. Maybe that's wrong, but it sounds like this is ESPN signaling a shift in their business model more than anything.
Rittenberg is the fucking worst the fact he is allowed to write Insider content blows my mind. There is never any substance to any of his stuff. I expect advanced stats to be incorporated into all Insider content and that is never the case with him sucks to see Dana O'Neil gone Paul Kuharsky not gonna be able to pimp his shitty radio show via his ESPN columns anymore, aww
I always liked the perspective Dana O'Neil brought to college basketball and other sports as well. She just wasn't a cookie cutter type, actually put original thought behind a lot of her stuff and executed it pretty well. I listened to a Jim Miller podcast and he was basically like...if you aren't associated with Stan and Neil on sports center, Mike Greenberg's impending morning show, first take dipshits, the bomani and whoever the fuck lousy show, the 6pm sports center or a national elite reporter, you are or will eventually be on the chopping block.
Iirc, the last Disney directive also had pretty aggressive long term targets that wouldn't be met by the short term directed cuts. So even if Disney isn't saying cut x now, I have to think that's on their mind. I'd be concerned about their health if/when they lose a bid for broadcasting rights that they currently own.