ESPN pay cuts?

And why do we need hot takers at all?

That's a serious question.

 

Bring back BodyShaping for ESPN morning content!

 

I was more of a Denise Austin guy.

That’s why SportsCenter was better back then. They didn’t need to fill 15 hours a day. And they still don’t, FWIW.

 

Replaying SVP for those of us who don’t stay up that late would be awesome.

 

I'd watch the ever-loving hell out of a station that did a modernized version of 1988 ESPN or just re-aired old stuff like an ESPN Classic version. Fitness shows (drag 70-year-old Jake Steinfeld and Gilad out of mothballs for the hell of it) mixed in with the late Sportscenter rerun, roller derby around noon, Legends of World Class Wrestling, professional bowling, billiards, a replay of a Providence game from the night before, Jay Johnstone and the Lighter Side of Sports, Roy Firestone, etc.

There's a reason Ocho day is so damned popular.

 

Live sports is worth big dollars to broadcasters, high viewership means high ad rates. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/04/ncaa-and-espn-ink-8-year-920-million-media-rights-deal.html

 

On slow weekends, ESPN2, ESPNU, or ESPNEWS is running some obscure sport. Darts has shown up, but bullshit like college Cornhole tournaments and all sorts of odd game mashups are frequently shown.

 

Bitter-

I can't understand why Classic failed. There is a huge demand for this stuff if it is done the right way.

NFL Films has 150 million feet of footage and a humongous vault and no one can view even parts of this footage. Makes perfect sense.

 

I can't either. I find myself watching old games more often than new ones sometime. There's a guy currently on YouTube (at least until someone catches wind and bans the dude) who is uploading old Portland Trailblazers games from 1985-1999 almost daily and I average watching at least two or three a week since that was My Team as a teenager. When I look at all of the old rerun channels on my cable package (TVONE, Antenna TV, MeTV, FeTV, Rewind) and see that they almost never go out of business, it seems like an idiot proof model.

 

There's the problem.

 

Someone may be discount double checked here

Bruce Arthur: Aaron Rodgers vs. Jimmy Kimmel was no accident. ESPN is playing an ugly game

 

Funny, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole the last couple of months of old sporting events. Started with memorable final rounds of golf majors. Then sort of morphed into big games that I covered years ago. Or just games I haven't seen in forever that meant something to me. I've enjoyed it a great deal, and there's an almost endless supply.

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