OT (and SIAP): Why ESPN is Struggling
I take no pleasure in people losing their jobs. I take even less pleasure in such a thing when people are losing their jobs because of what appears to be gross mismanagement. Here is a link to an article explaining how ESPN appears to have HIGHLY overpaid for certain broadcast rights, and did so just as it made a huge mistake that cost the channel millions of subscribers:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/espn-made-two-critical-mistakes-132855270….
P.S. There is a link to other articles within this article that have more hard numbers. They basically confirm the thrust of this article, however...
October 27th, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^
What do Bill Nye and Oprah Winfrey have to do with ESPN?
October 27th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^
There are about 50 more you could put in there.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:18 PM ^
If they axe Kaylee Hartung I will never watch that damn channel again.
October 27th, 2015 at 5:40 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 5:15 PM ^
C'MON MAN!
October 27th, 2015 at 6:02 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 7:16 PM ^
I'd rather not listen to someone who sounds like a bullfrog with asthma trying to hold in a burp every five seconds.
October 28th, 2015 at 6:39 AM ^
Was awesome 25 years ago, his schtick became old 20 years ago.
October 27th, 2015 at 6:04 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
I thought it was Bill Nye and Keenan Thompson
October 27th, 2015 at 4:55 PM ^
Jamal Hill's face looks like a Halloween costume. That is one ugly dude.
October 27th, 2015 at 6:59 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 5:58 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 6:13 PM ^
I haven't been able to watch First Take since it became the Skip and Stephen A show, but it's probably one of their more profitable products. They can't be paying these guys nearly as much as they are paying for football, basketball and baseball.
October 27th, 2015 at 7:17 PM ^
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October 27th, 2015 at 7:42 PM ^
Data's a bit old, but I don't think it's much different now. The more ESPN shoved the WNBA down my throat, the less I watched the network.
October 27th, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^
a lot of it is seriously just over-saturation, particularly with the NFL. I turn it on ESPN to watch specific games, but I turn it off as soon as those games are over. I am not just nuetral toward it either, the channel genuinely irritates me. For a long time I had ESPN as my fall back channel but it is the opposite of that now because I think their content is terrible.
October 27th, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^
HGTV has become my fall back channel. Chip and Jo til I die
October 27th, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^
I'm big on the Discovery Channel. Fast N' Loud is one of my favorites.
October 27th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
I just told my wife the other night that I'm convinced they put an attractive female on every show just to get men to watch. Between Jo Jo and the girl on "Flip or Flop" (and the fact we're about to start house shopping) I have been watching a lot of HGTV lately.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:09 PM ^
The wife on Flip or Flop, my god, she's awesome.
October 27th, 2015 at 5:40 PM ^
OMG, yes she is!!! Christina:
Don't forget about Detroit's own Nicole Curtis on Rehad Addict:
October 27th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
turn of HGTV and turn on Univision and Telemundo.
October 27th, 2015 at 8:07 PM ^
Now I'm watching HGTV for the first time of my own free will because of you degenerates
October 27th, 2015 at 8:53 PM ^
get horny for the HGTV?
October 27th, 2015 at 3:58 PM ^
I never turn on espn anymore; definitely default to HGTV
not a huge chip and jo fan but I can tolerate them. prefer property brothers, rehab addict, income property and flip or flop. will really watch anything except love it or list it; they drive me insane
October 27th, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
Truth.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:58 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 4:01 PM ^
House Hunters International. Relaxing, educational, useful.
ESPN is none of those. It's sad. I grew up watching ESPN for hours a day. Now, I don't think I've watch an hour of non-live-sports in a year. Bunch of blow hard idiots who know nothing about sports. I don't care what Lebron James has to say about Big Ben's injury nor do I have or CARE about what is happening on the Twitter.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:45 PM ^
HH and HHI are an excellent substitution for sports if you're feeling burnt out. Have a drink or two and root for your favorite "team." It can get very exciting!
October 27th, 2015 at 5:10 PM ^
Sorry - but I'm going to have to stop watching if I see one more episode where some couple can't make up their mind and end up not picking any of the 3 options. Just a complete waste of my time. I saw this happen twice in a row on Island Life on Sunday night.
October 28th, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
I have watched that show for years and I've never seen that. That would definitely annoy me as well. I'm more partial to HH than HHI (unless it's some tropical destination). I'm just not a fan of watching someone decide between one tiny European closet sized home and another.
October 27th, 2015 at 5:12 PM ^
I like the shows where the people are at least somewhat open to something different. The ones where the people hate everything and make me wonder how their agent hasn't killed them, make me hope they choose the worst possible fit.
The House Hunters international are great, really fun to see slices of life all over the world and see why people make the moves that they do.
October 27th, 2015 at 7:39 PM ^
Fine for ogling houses in neat places, but the "plot" is all scripted and mostly fiction.
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October 27th, 2015 at 9:32 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^
Agreed. I used to watch it quite often, now I can't watch SportsCenter because it's crap.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^
I also used to watch ESPN way more frequently than I do now. They last straw for me was their incredibly biased reporting of Deflategate. Listening to some of the jock reporters extol the virtues of their theory without ever once mentioning the Ideal Gas Law or realizing that tires lose pressure when they got colder made my eyes roll. Mark Brunell was a case in point.
The only concern I have is the impact upon the B1G and its contract negotiations.
October 27th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
This is absolutely on point. The whole coverage was ridiculous. There were probably 10-15 different threads here that covered all of the minutia of the science of deflation. I learned more physics on mgoblog during that period than I will ever remember from undergrad.
I get my sports news from this blog and watch whatever my wife wants to watch at night (usually HGTV or History channel).
October 27th, 2015 at 7:23 PM ^
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October 28th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
I can't put my finger on it, but it really seems that every single deflategate joke the game announcers have made during every broadcast this season has been critcial or at the expense of Brady/Pats.
October 28th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
When you're at the top, everyone's painted a target on your back. Like how playing Michigan is (getting back to being) every CFB team's Super Bowl.
October 27th, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^
For the longest time, ESPN was, for the most part, the only channel I really watched. But when the A-Rod, Favre, Tebow storylines were covered ad nauseam it became too much to handle. Combine that with terrible "jounalists" in Stephen A, Bayless, etc and I don't watch anything they offer with the exception of live games and the occassional 30 for 30.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:24 PM ^
October 27th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
The Tebow and Brady Quinn worship was too much for me.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:11 PM ^
Then that's what I will be doing for the next hour.
October 27th, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
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