OT: Suzy Kolber laid off by espn
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Notice how she’s smiling at me guys?
You know you see it, Don’t Hate
You know you see it, Don’t Hate
Amazon would be smart to snap her up for analysis on Thursday games. She’s one of the best in the business at breaking down plays.
She’s been a mainstay at ESPN since I was barely out of high school and I’m 42. They did her a favor, that place sucks now anyway.
Hopefully, she will give me the much coveted rose
Hardly anyone recognizable left on there these days outside of the former athletes.
Disney keeps losing their ass on woke movies, and ESPN keeps laying off to prop them up.
Just hired as Joe Namath executive assistant.
Surely this lands him with SEC Nation?
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They nix Suzy but they keep Holly Rowe? Have they lost their minds?
Of course she has to throw in the sex angle. Nothing new. F her.
Pretty sure if he was fired from ESPN he won't be on SEC Nation. It's the same thing. SECN is an ESPN channel.
Has nothing to do with that. Even if Disney had a record string of blockbuster successes at the box office, ESPN would still be in trouble because of cord cutting.
Roughly 80% of ESPN’s revenue comes from carriage fees from the cable companies. Basically every single cable subscriber pays ESPN about $120 per year even if they never watch a minute of ESPN.
So when 5.9M people cut the cord last year, that dropped ESPN’s revenue by about $700M. And when you consider the fact that about 26M have cut the cord since 2015, it becomes clear that ESPN has a fundamental problem with their business model, and it has nothing to do with their programming choices or the content Disney creates.
ESPN can no longer rely on their revenues being subsidized by large numbers of non-sports watching cable subscribers. There’s really nothing ESPN can do to fix that problem other than cut costs and try to make up for lost revenue by charging people to stream ESPN at a pretty high monthly price.
For the past few years, they never show closeups of her. Must have to use a lot of face putty.
I just hope they keep Beth Mowen and have her do all our games, she’s absolutely the best in the business.
I have no strong feelings about Kolber. She seemed good at the NFL stuff, but man, she really struggled during the Hamlin football delay last year. Wow. That was hard to watch.
Why did masses of people start cutting the cord in 2015 I wonder? It's about politics and not sports. I won't get into it any more than that
The days of free sports are numbered. ESPN and everyone else will charge to Stream. EV's are the next pocket buster, soon you will be taxed by the mile and dealerships will be only place you can get parts and get your car repaired.
When was sports free (other than OTA network broadcasts)? ESPN has always been pay to watch.
I have the hulu+Disney +espn+ basically everything ESPN offers its 85 dollars a month just paid yesterday and it's got fox and all the fox sports stations. More sports than you can watch not to mention Hulu has Netflix quality or better content. 85 isn't bad
It's funny that people were complaining about a $85 cable bill or $115 directv bill in order to watch movies and live sports. Streaming was supposed to save money by only paying for what you watch. You are already paying for stuff you don't watch and they are going to have to raise prices to cover.
They have done exactly what streaming was supposed to solve. LOL.
It'll be curious what Hulu looks like next year after Comcast sells their share to Disney. Can't imagine they keep their content on there... or higher prices to keep their content. Hard to say. $20 billion+ could swing Hulu in any direction.. even a merger with Amazon or more likely Apple tv.
Iger gave an interview to nbc. He hinted that ABC, FX, nat geo, and some smaller stuff would be on the 'open to sell' list. ESPN is tied to abc but Disney won't let that go. So selling ABC without Disney... What would that even be worth?
Disney+ lost $11billion the last couple years... so it's not just at the box office this year. Disney is $35 billion in debt and have to come up with $20 billion, minimum, for the Hulu deal. The parks have always been the cash cow but even they are falling off this summer.
Cord cutting was what Disney+ was supposed to fix so the problem isn't just cord cutting. They've lost over 2 million subs since last Dec. Quality has fallen and everyone sees it even if they don't want to admit it.
Disney+ lost $11billion the last couple years... so it's not just at the box office this year. Disney is $35 billion in debt and have to come up with $20 billion, minimum, for the Hulu deal. The parks have always been the cash cow but even they are falling off this summer.
Cord cutting was what Disney+ was supposed to fix so the problem isn't just cord cutting. They've lost over 2 million subs since last Dec. Quality has fallen and everyone sees it even if they don't want to admit it.
Just being woke for her previous employer,she wants to keep up with the kind that's paid her .
I thought she did pretty well all things considered. We thought we just saw a young man die on the field. She didn’t come to work expecting to fill air during that terrible break.
We will disagree on that. The people watching with me were begging for someone else to take the lead. It was like pulling a healthy tooth without Novocain and then replacing it with a block of salt.
It was hard to watch, for sure. Just giving some grace on that one, it was a pretty impossible situation.
It's their indebtedness that is forcing the woke and bgltq+ agenda. WEF and its member banks applying the pressure. They've been trash for much longer than that, but that's been their reason for pushing the agenda
Agreed. They need loans and the higher the score the lower the rate and the more government money they qualify for. The billion dollar property Disney cancelled on... Disney was only paying for $260 million of that. The rest was state and federal grant money.
People are wondering if Iger is going to sell off enough of the co to make Disney affordable for a takeover. Amazon and Apple being the 2 main buyers mentioned.
It'll be interesting what SEC network or college sports looks like in another 2 years. Lots are going to change pretty quick.
I'd say we lose a lot more personalities too. Beth Mowens won't be one of them of course. LOL.
Are you kidding me?! Wtf...
We're already an oligarch controlled, socialist country if that's true. That's an insane difference
It shocked me. You figure they had tax breaks but they were getting straight up cash to build that campus.
Disney? The company that almost keeps Fla afloat? What does woke mean and what's bad about it? I'm ready for a ridiculous and incorrect answer
They used to be. Universal is gaining on them fast because they just make stuff for everyone.
Producing films and shows to push a political agenda at the expense of investor money. Bob Chapek said that Disney needed to get back to making family friendly content and he was promptly fired and Iger came back in. You obviously don't agree with the criticism of Disney but you need to understand that they have lost billions of dollars and are facing some difficult decisions in the next few years.... all because they put politics above just making good family content... and we can honestly say that's the reason because they won't stop talking about it. You can laugh and the people at Disney will, and that's why this has gotten this bad financially.
And to relate it to the SEC and UK.... We get our biggest check from our tv deal with espn. If Disney insist on making everything female and gay and they lose money on it.... eventually they can't pay us our money.... even if we all agree it's no big deal.
People just aren't looking at Disney's books. They are in debt and aren't even looking at being profitable for 2 years minimum. You realize that co's have to turn a profit to pay out their debts right?
I posted about the billion dollar campus they were building and how much the state and fed government were kicking in for that. People aren't realizing how much FL was propping up Disney the last few decades. FL did as much for Disney as Disney did for FL.... but you have to look at the financials to see it.
Though losing subscribers, Disney still reported a profit of 1.8 billion...
