More Cuts at ESPN

That's good. It will help ESPN justify that fifth afternoon replay of the poodle races and the guy taking one off the jewels. Can't analyze those events often enough.

 

I mean, both of those sound incredible! I'd much rather watch a loop of them than Stephen A.

 

I bet your parents still subscribe to a print edition of a newspaper. When I read that paragraph I thought how easily you could substitute the word newspaper for cable television. And we have seen what has happened to the newspaper industry.

 

Christina just LOOKS like a stupid person. I would divorce her too if I had to listen to dumb things all day.

Flip or Flop has poisoned the real estate market forever.

 

ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It

 

This is dumb. If they spend a whole morning pounding an item, of course there will be a ripple effect. Saying the ripple effect justifies the pounding is idiotic.

But that's the logic of a declining network.

 

“One of the cool things about all this digital disruption is that you can know things about your fans,” says King, a former newspaper editor and 13-year veteran of ESPN who took over SportsCenter in 2014. “You don’t have to guess so much.” If you, loyal ESPN viewer, have ever sat in your living room wondering why you’re being subjected to yet another Talmudic discussion of “Deflategate,” King would argue it’s because that’s what you asked for.​

So they're basically telemarketers responding to social media, instead of journalists telling you what is actually news. No surprise. King is one of the least creative people in the business. Everything he's touched at ESPN has gradually turned to shit.

 

You haven't heard? Fans who troll and hurl insults on Twitter are highly sophisticated.

 

"Although ESPN executives acknowledge that this could happen years from now if cable continues to decline, the plan for now is more modest. In February, Iger characterized the new service, which doesn’t yet have a name, as “an add-on or adjunct product that consumers can buy on top of what is their normal multichannel package.” Executives at both ESPN and MLB say the offering will likely include a mix of baseball and hockey games—though not the marquee matchups that appear on national telecasts today—as well as competitive video gaming, international sports such as cricket and rugby, and college football and basketball games from outside the major conferences. “I think it’s a learning exercise more than anything,” says BTIG’s Greenfield. “This is really them starting to learn the direct-to-consumer business and dealing with customer service, churn, retention, and marketing.""

So basically they're gonna start charging extra for ESPN3?

 

Hopefully not a d_b

Jim Miller: ESPN will lay off 40-50 employees, all but a few on-air personalities should be nervous