More Cuts at ESPN

Baggs just isn't taking this well ...

 

Crap ... known Jerry since both of our NASCAR days in the 90s ... at least he's got his medical degree to fall back on ...

 

Who watches? College kids and the unemployed. Great demo

 

That's the demo -- 18- to 24-year-olds -- that advertisers have lusted after since the beginning of advertising.

 

Not to stomp on your toes, but you haven't been paying attention then. I cut my cable nearly six years ago, and I had thought about it for at least three or four years before I did. I would believe many people were thinking internet TV and a la carte TV (pick your own channels) were the wave of the future.

Damn right I knew this day was coming. It was never a matter of "if" but more a matter of "when." Surprised you didn't considering you're one of the more insightful posters on here.

 

Lots of people may have seen this coming but not ESPN management. They may well have been in denial. It is hard to accept that the money is not going to keep increasing.

 

Was the Nashville guy the only NFL beat writer fired?

 

That's the Fox News demo, minus the college kids

 

I'm one of those idiots.

 

What about the angry old white guys? None of them ever had jobs?

 

I just want to say keep the list of names laid off today. Even in this market, you are going to see a lot of them, MOST of them, maybe all of them land good jobs. Why? The old saying is true today as it was many moons ago: "You can't keep a good man down." I'll also add, "You can't keep a good woman down." If you are as strong as many of those names (Stark, etc.) you will get another job. You have oh, so many connections and so many people realize it will be great PR for the company that hires them. Now very few will be hired by newspapers for obvious reasons.

 

Baseball Tonight adds Dallas Braden, Doug Granville and Raul Ibanez to the list. Ravech and Co just said goodbye.