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News Article: ESPN layoffs

Redwood Forrest said:
I seem to remember someone saying ESPN went on a spending spree to corner the market and now they are paying the price for it. I know they (and ABC) have ALL the bowl games except two. Maybe CBS, NBC, Fox and their cable siblings can get back in the bowl game picture in a couple of years.
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Yea, this is part of what got them into trouble. They overpaid for sports rights and are in trouble now. This tends to happen with companies that are too aggressive in trying to corner a market instead of improving their product. I'm pretty sure this happened to Yahoo as well IIRC.

Redwood Forrest said:
I agree on both accounts. I also know this is not totally ESPN's fault. A Cable system owner (retired now) told me that ESPN was always threating to pull their channels off his cable company if they didn't get this and that. For example they wanted to be first in the channel lineup. ESPN was channel 27, ESPN2 was 28, and so on and on. All the ESPN family came first and then the CBSSN, NBCSN and FS1. That was so that people flipping through the channels would stop on one the ESPNs first before getting to the others.

At contract time the cable company wants a raise and ESPN won't give in. So the war of words begins with both sides telling customers to call the other and complain. I reckon they mostly compromise on the amount of raise the cable company gets. This was ten years ago so it may have changed by now. I have no sympathy for either one. They both are greedy.
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This is pretty standard though right? I'm sure we have all seen commercials to try to push their agenda when contracts are about to be up.
 
GrayTide said:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...ay-after-being-laid-off/ar-BBABsPw?li=BBnb4R7

A real classy move by ESPN.
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Oh Lord! Really?! They actually asked him to do a draft day beat after laying him off effective immediately. LOL

Oh and this line:

Werder also questioned the direction and priorities at ESPN, saying the network used to be about news and information and highlights, and he’s not sure if that’s the case anymore
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That is really the problem with ESPN, they don't put the sports center stage. I'd rather see Lebron dunks from last night than some dweeb saying Lebron doesn't have the clutch gene.
 
You can add me to the list. I'm about to drop our cable tv and I'm going with Sling TV. I can get every channel we'd watch (and several we still wouldn't ever watch) for 30 bucks a month.
 
Bamabuzzard said:
Jemele White and Michael {not sure his last name} are the two that I am baffled at as to why ESPN is trying to build around them. They are awful. The new "Sportscenter" 6 pm version is atrocious. Utterly atrocious.
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I'm not sure who they are trying to appeal to? Who would want to watch that?

I don't even like the SVP Sportcenter -- but it's better than the 6pm version
 
Bamabuzzard said:
Jemele White and Michael {not sure his last name} are the two that I am baffled at as to why ESPN is trying to build around them. They are awful. The new "Sportscenter" 6 pm version is atrocious. Utterly atrocious.
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You're baffled?

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JDCrimson said:
As much as the NFL and the NBA want their money they want their product broadcast worse. Whatever shape ESPN descends into the contracts will get revised to keep broadcasting going.

What really should be happening right now is the SEC needs to be doing some contingency planning to develop plans for severing their network from ESPN if the hemorrhaging continues.

It should have been done along time ago but if a channel cannot be profitable with the content aired on it then it shouldn't be aired. Simple as that.

People by and large want to watch ESPN. I would subscribe to it separately over the Internet sort of like Netflix. Give me access to live broadcasts of games some re-runs of classics and some documentaries and I'm good. I don't need or want Finebaum, PTI, or Cowherd and their ilk.

Simply, ESPN is suffering because cable providers have bundled it with a bunch of other worthless channels.

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That contingency planning was done when the network was created. The SEC does not own the SECN. If it fails, it is a failure for ESPN, and ESPN alone. The SEC will never lose money on the SECN.

A good article about all of this as it pertains to the SECN:

https://www.fanragsports.com/cfb/espn-is-struggling-but-the-sec-network-is-not/
 
Redwood Forrest said:
Dinich and Brock Hurd (or .... as I call him) drive me crazy. Both their voices make me want to run thru the wall.
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The thing about Dinich, is I have never, not once, heard anything actually insightful come from her. I've seen her make a fool of herself, say some really stupid things, but I have yet to see the justification for her being there in the first place.

Redwood Forrest said:
I seem to remember someone saying ESPN went on a spending spree to corner the market and now they are paying the price for it. I know they (and ABC) have ALL the bowl games except two. Maybe CBS, NBC, Fox and their cable siblings can get back in the bowl game picture in a couple of years.
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I really hope that ESPN's hold on the post season is broken. I think it's bad for college football. Look at what they did to the BCS and then the playoffs, cable only? Sure, it might be good for them in terms of revenue (forcing subscriptions) but it's terrible for the sport to limit the number of households that can see the game. The worst part of all that, is after they moved the BCSCG from broadcast to cable, ESPN starting running stories about lower ratings. How dishonest of them, the ratings drops aligned with the drop in the number of households that could get the game, but ESPN has an agenda there so...
 
KrAzY3 said:
The thing about Dinich, is I have never, not once, heard anything actually insightful come from her. I've seen her make a fool of herself, say some really stupid things, but I have yet to see the justification for her being there in the first place.
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Probably the biggest issue with her. For all of their flaws, at least a guy like Kannell or Galloway provides insight. Cecil took plenty of heat for his comment about her last year, but he was right - "You could walk into any sports bar in America and find someone more qualified than Heather Dinich."
 
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