Does Vitale keep his job?
http://collegespun.com/homepage-new/espn-will-layoff-350-employees-starting-today
http://collegespun.com/homepage-new/espn-will-layoff-350-employees-starting-today
ESPN Cutting 350 Employees
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They are starting with anyone who ever told the truth about the North Carolina cheating corruption.
All they have to do is let everyone go that not a UNC alumni, but that can't be so that 90% of there employees
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I heard its because their viewership is down. Here's a tip, ESPN. Try broadcasting sporting events in place of all those damn talk shows. In any given 24 hour period it seems that 20 or more of those hours are talk shows. I love watching sports. I hate watching a panel discussion about sports.
hopefully PTI gets the axe
ESPN has brought too much political agenda bias to their network anymore. ..
Basically ESPN has turned into MSNBC with sport's sprinkled in.
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As a FSU graduate and the son of 2 UK graduates, I have no need to watch ESPN. Unless UK or FSU is playing on ESPN I do not tune it.Also, the radio shows broadcasted on TV is getting out of hand.
When I go to my barber shop, they have ESPN on the entire time and I don't see how anyone can put up with ALL of their lame talk shows. Every hour its the same crap repeated from different peoples' mouths.
Cord-cutting the reason for this, IMO. Although I agree there's too much non-sports crap, political agendas and sky-rocketing rights fees as mentioned in other posts.
Also, the radio shows broadcasted on TV is getting out of hand.
When I go to my barber shop, they have ESPN on the entire time and I don't see how anyone can put up with ALL of their lame talk shows. Every hour its the same crap repeated from different peoples' mouths.
yep, it's not just what the market will bare in dollars, but also what the market will bare in regurgitation
It takes a real idiot to find a political slant on a sports station, so congrats, guys! You are a special kind of paranoid.
The problem is they will fire the little guys. They could keep most of them if they would cut some of the big salaries that aren't worth a damn. A solid reporter than can speak clearly is all I need on Sportscenter.
Stephen A Smith please get the boot.
Stephen A Smith please get the boot.
Many factors, including the ones posted above. You also have to consider the business side of ESPN. Higher operational costs, taxes going up, higher health care costs, higher benefit costs/retirement plans and viewership being spread out across other networks is going to present a problem in revenue. Increased salaries for some results in layoffs for others in lean times. Fox and TBS has slowly been grabbing more and more air time from ESPN and the networks. The cost of doing business in 2015.
When (If?) cable goes to cafeteria pricing, ESPN will go away. Which would be fine with us. A huge chunk of ESPN's revenue comes from people who don't watch it.
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I agree. Most don't know a thing about sports as well. Some are clueless.
Considering how much misinformation and lying they do, they must be an extension of FOX.
This...being proactive for the hit coming. They get about $8 per subscriber today.
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They give that dumbass Jemele Hill a daily show, what more needs to be said?
Also, the radio shows broadcasted on TV is getting out of hand.
When I go to my barber shop, they have ESPN on the entire time and I don't see how anyone can put up with ALL of their lame talk shows. Every hour its the same crap repeated from different peoples' mouths.
It is because most people in a barber shop want to hear sports when they are there if the TV is on. No one is there hour after hour to hear the same crap from different peoples' mouths, except for the employees and it is not about what they want to hear/watch as they are working.
That can be said for a lot of networks. Though if it goes a la carte you would probably pay very little for ESPN and it would still be more than they get from you now.
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I wasn't going to but I can't let you down....
True, but that kind of paranoia is par for our course. I will say that Sports Illustrated does have an obvious political slant - but then, it's print vs tv, and that makes all the difference.....Point is, you can combine sports coverage and have a particular political point of view. But I've not heard it on ESPN. Too many people anyway, you know a lot of folks there are conservative - e.g., I think it's been established that football coaches are disproportionately conservative. SI has a relatively small stable of writers, and they are all on one side of the aisle...
Nevermind. I'm talking to myself.....
I finally cut the cord a few months ago. ESPN was the only thing holding me back for so many years. I've been using ukbasketballlive.com for UK games and it has been great but I do miss the HD quality. I also miss catching random college football (and soon to be college basketball) games without having to find a random stream. Hopefully there is eventually a stand alone service for ESPN that is reasonable. I'd probably pay $15 a month for it.
I get bored with those shows too, but what sports are exactly on the air on weekdays from 9-6 when they play those?
My problem with them is their nfl coverage...look I get it, the nfl is the most popular sport in the country, but after Monday night football you don't have to have countless shows talking about each and every play. You basically just watch the entire game over all week long with different ppl critiquing each play.
I think it's $6 but you maybe right, just over 3 million people have gotten rid of cable so ESPN has lost a lot of $$$.
Many watch on their device other then TV now. All of the channels that actually have no viewers exist because we bundle everything...the crap we pay for is amazing.
What about Sling tv? $20 a month and you get ESPN and espn2 plus other channels including CNN and AMC. A few more bucks and you can add SEC network and espnu.
