NYT: Skipper Betting on Big Personalities to Turn Espn Around

[KingOfBBN]

Anyone watch the Draft Lottery last night? Whoever that "sideline" lady was had absolutely no presentation skills.

And this is what they decided to keep?

The majority of sports media is now women (who are clueless about sports for the most part) and ex-jocks.

So big personalities and women who have been hired for looks.

 

[420grover]

I just stream them, or watch them somewhere usually at a bar here in Memphis with friends. Fun watching Cal dominate for Kentucky hanging around guys that hate him, but loved him for nearly a decade.

So, you did tune into ESPN, just not on your TV at home.

 

[morgousky]

So, you did tune into ESPN, just not on your TV at home.

Yes, when a UK game is on and I'm in a bar. when I stream it I use BWO. If that gives espn a click whatever.

But I do not subscribe to espn in anyway and do not have them as part of my package.

 

[KYBorn&Raised]

Now all I want to hear is @floatingyou poker stories!

 

[mktmaker]

“We at ESPN are optimists,” John Skipper, ESPN’s president, said on Tuesday at the network’s annual presentation to advertisers. “Of course, the current environment forces us to be realists as well as optimists.”