Some basketball heads still gonna roll at espn?
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So your Chinese must be pretty s good. I need subtitles to understand anything he says.
Graph included in the link that shows the viewer count by month the over the past two years. Comments from John Skipper.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/espn-will-look-dramatically-different-1-year-130050254.html
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/espn-will-look-dramatically-different-1-year-130050254.html
Hill is the absolute worst host on cable, not just ESPN.
"She’s been accused of using her sports columns for race baiting, in addition to creating a double standard by being openly racist in several of her editorials and columns. For example, in a 2007 column about Barry Bonds, Jemele herself admitted to playing the race card, writing that it’s “somewhere in my back pocket, but I’ll play that later on.” [ed – fair warning. Dr. King really just wanted people to openly admit that they were planning to be racist and offensive to each other at some point in the future]."
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ESPN stated they wanted people who were multi faceted and could cover multiple sports rather than people were "baseball only" or "hockey only". They also defended SC6, which is an undefendable position, and despite more promotions for that show versus all others combined ratings were down for it 12%. They cited positives such as viewers who were AA were up 15% and made up 41% of the viewers for that show. What???
So you promote a show non stop with an announcer who knows zip about sports, who is an admitted racist, who just challenged a Boston area radio personality to a physical confrontation - all because he said she is horrible on TV and how could former espn employees not be upset that they were fired and, she is still there and your best idea is to double down? No wonder that place is tanking. Then Stephen A went on a rant the next day because people criticized him saying if he was let go they could have saved most of the jobs with his salary. Maybe instead of having 4-5 people do the morning sportscenter have 2 people do it and actually show I don't know highlights instead of people talking over the highlights.
So you promote a show non stop with an announcer who knows zip about sports, who is an admitted racist, who just challenged a Boston area radio personality to a physical confrontation - all because he said she is horrible on TV and how could former espn employees not be upset that they were fired and, she is still there and your best idea is to double down? No wonder that place is tanking. Then Stephen A went on a rant the next day because people criticized him saying if he was let go they could have saved most of the jobs with his salary. Maybe instead of having 4-5 people do the morning sportscenter have 2 people do it and actually show I don't know highlights instead of people talking over the highlights.
That was a really good article, best I've seen yet on this whole ESPN saga. Thanks for posting....
It has been mire than 15 years since I watched anything more in espn...
THIS - While I didn't always agree with some of the things Eamonn Brennan and Dana O'Neill said, they wrote very well and helped me to understand things from another point-of-view. If letting the better writers go across the board is how ESPN is dealing with things, I can't help but think that they want to present a dumbed down product.
I'm sure it's been mentioned, but it has become more clear why Bilas jumped at defending UNCheat every chance he got the last few months.
Someone PLEASE offer Vitale a retirement package?!?!?
Retirement package? It better be awesome, baby! With a capital A!! (sorry I couldn't resist
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Espn lost it's mojo when they quit broadcasting fringe sports . Now all you get is a bunch of guys and one pretty lady sitting around chatting about football. I say go back to table tennis, Australian rules football, naked twister etc....
They're just catering to a dumbed down culture, right? What they believe is people no longer want in depth analysis and reporting, what they want is "personality" and opinion. The more colorful the better. Makes no sense for them to produce a product no one wants, that's the route to irrelevance and bankruptcy. We've seen this before in other places - it's why "McNews" became fashionable (only one pit stop on the way to Fake News!). No one watches PBS, and it ain't just cause of perceived politics. As a culture, we simply don't have an attention span allowing for much more than people yelling at each other. Getting "connected" - the internet, smartphones, social media, all of it - just accelerated what was already started. Kinda makes you wonder what the future looks like......
In that article it says that numbers are up for SC6 with 18-34 year old African-Americans, so I guess that explains to some extent why they're sticking with it. I really can't stand either one of those hosts and find them thoroughly unentertaining and unfunny, but apparently it's not for me.
I've been in that group for several years now...yet the clowns at eSpN don't realize people are bailing on them.
Do you have an example of Stephen A playing the race card or are you just playing the race card card?
I'd like to see cross country bowling and full contact chess again
Calipari has Stephen A. Smith on his podcast. They talk about the ESPN layoff situation about 3/4 of the way in.
Any chance Katz could take seth davis's place- he knows less about basketball than my 11 yr old grandson.
