>post yfw you realize that ESPN is dying and there's

Good, fuck ESPN.

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>the jews finally lose

Wasn't Disney also cucked out of Carson along with Spanos?

>>64910749
yfw fox sports 1 becomes the new SJW espn

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>>64910784
>holocaust
>finally lose

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>getting cucked by overpaying for College Football and the NBA

>yfw espn blew up the company over a plateaued college football playoffs
>yfw nbc sports can grow for the next decade on rabid American lust for the Premier League

it's really that easy

Yfw espn is starting to push e sports to try and get those autist neet bucks

>>64911095

>yfw sports illustrated has a pro wrestling column now

I wish I had born ten years ago, shit's gonna be awesome for 10-year old minds

>>64911057

NBC Sports has been smart to pick smaller sports with dedicated fanbases. Like soccer and NASCAR. Pretty smart move 2bh I like the direction they've chosen.

FS1 will throw all kinds of money at overtaking ESPN because they can. Disney is powerful and rich, but they don't have shit on Murdoch and Newscorp. And FS1 has the advantage of learning from ESPN's mistakes.

CBSSN will remain small and limited.

>>64911113
i doubt any 10 year olds are reading magazines these days

>>64911113
ESPN used to air it. Probably will again one day.

Hopefully Disney sells off ESPN

>>64911163

>thinking it won't spread beyond magazines
>Skip: Hulk Hogan is the most overrated pro wrestler in the history of the WWE!
>Stephen A: THAT'S SO DISRESPECTFUL

>>64910861
Why do you think they over reported the committee wanting the deal? They wanted to look like the best deal

Ironically enough they didn't have enough shekels and planning to make it happen

>>64910957

the CFP was the final nail in the coffin. Monday Night Football hurts, but they're on the hook for several billion to broadcast the CFP assuming it'd be getting Superbowl-ish type ratings. They miscalculated big time.

>>64910957
its funny how they literally dont air a single bit of hockey so they talk about the NFL in fucking april and bullshit about lebrons newest fuck toy

>>64911212
>Stephen A defending racist Hulk Hogan
are you even trying?

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>>64910944
>Holocaust™
>Factual

>>64911163
they may not subscribe to them but they read articles all the time on their smartphones

>>64910944
>a few jews die
>literally get a free nation out of it and the eternal guilt of europe
it was trading 4 years of bad times for 6 decades of good times

>>64910749
deadspin really needs a channel

>>64911300
>Redditspin
Thankfully Gawker network is dead soon

ESPN is paying 470 million/year JUST for the CFP.

In contrast, Turner is paying 1.2 billion/year to broadcast NBA games. That includes all of the regular season and playoffs. And some of those playoff games will get ratings that match what ESPN got for their highest rated CFP game this year. Turner and ESPN both are getting a lot more bang for their buck with the NBA deal, although it should be pointed out that Turner does a much better job at using it with better pre and postgames that people want to watch.

By paying 470 million/year to broadcast 6 games ESPN set itself up for disaster.

>>64911300
kill yourself liberal scum

>>64911339
Is keith olberman still unemployed? I miss him on espn

Good any network that allows Skip Bayless to open his retarded mouth should fuck off and die. Also Why do they also need all those studios? Their SC at night meme is stupid

they will save themselves with LGBTcenter which only focuses on gay/trans/queer athletes in the sporting world

followed up a daily 4 hour roundtable where wilbon, stephan a smith, and bomani jones discuss which white NFL coaches are possible KKK members

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>>64911300
>ReddiTV

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>>64910749
The sports pope is laughing right now I bet.

>>64911402
I could see them buying outsports.com

Fox Sports 1 is no great shakes but ESPN is even poisoning Sportscenter now with SJW shit...long segments on how we must feel for Walsh and "muh concussions".
Not to mention hiring that dumbfuck Mendoza to shit up baseball.
MSNBC of sports...great fucking idea.

ESPN pays 1.9 billion/year for the NFL.

NBCSN pays 1 billion for 6 years of Premier League Games. And they pay around 4ish billion for 10 years of NASCAR (FOX pays about the same to broadcast half the season while NBC gets the other half).

While neither will get ratings like the bigger sports get, they're smarter longterm investments than ESPN's CFP or NFL deal.

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>>64911260
>>64911287
>mfw i forgot that most of fortune was anti-jew, not just /pol/io

>>64911424
dis idear dat espn is duh worldwide leaduh in spawts is cahmical, ok?

Jim in Long Island, ga'head?
>Hi Mike! First time, long time! Do you think the Giants will hire Jason Giami as their new head coach? I'll hang up and listen…
Two houahs, folks

Google will take over Monday Night Football

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>spending $7.3 billion on a College Football, and broadcasting the games on NYE, where even people on this site have better things to do

>>64910749
>ESPN is dying

Is it inducosis?

>>64911513
Topkek

>>64911467
fuck off nigger dont steal my bike

ESPN went to shit when they started going full retard with the sports talk shit

aside from the fact that local AM radio already has that market covered, if I want to listen to two morons talk about sports I'll do it AFTER the game

>ESPN dies
>the SEC dies

exaliftin

what is the best sports radio and why?

Thank God memer frat dumbass college kids realized what the Internet is and replaced ESPN with slightly less shitty websites like Plebstool and Plebspin.

ESPN will finally RIP in hell. Fucking dumbass company.

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>>64911507
>Jews are victimized for no reason and never do anything wrong

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>>64911524

>tfw I was on /sp/ and watching those games that night

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>>64910749

its about time

>>64911568
Doesn't exist. It's always shitty calls, who's elite and dumb arguments over what players said in passing that doesn't matter

ESPNs problem is that they focus too much on national sports coverage. Regional coverage is so encompassing for the average viewer, they can get all the information they need about their team from their regional sports channel. Big national games are less enticing. Yes, the matchups may be good but the individual teams aren't as big a draw because most people have already seen the good teams play vs their home team. Not to mention most people want discussion tailored to their team/interests. You can't really get that from a national broadcaster, especially so on one like espn who is going to push their own agenda/stories and ignore certain teams and even entire sports. it's no surprise ESPNs ratings are dropping. They aren't needed as a channel anymore with so much more and better information available elsewhere.

>>64911338
Why doesnt Disney just put a bullet to the head of espn and put MNF and he CFP on ABC?

They do it for basketball and for regular season collage games, why not for the NFL and the playoff?

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>>64911598
lmao

>entire race of people are inherently bad
>it's a conspiracy, look
>casual to moderate racism is the only truth

>>64911735
This, I am tired of being oppressed by the shittiness of ESPN.

>>64911555
Not happening. Every team packs their stadium outside of shitters like Vandy, Kencucky and Mizzou. There is enough interest on campus to support those programs.

>>64911730
I absolutely love MLB Network coverage.
But ESPN's basketball and Football coverage is abysmal.

Why the fuck should I take Dilfer or Jaworski seriously?

>>64911735

Because ABC is free with an antenna and every person with ESPN is paying 7 dollars/month on their cable bill to have it.

Now multiply that 7 dollars with the number of households that have cable or satellite package and you get a large chunk of ESPN (and Disney's) revenue.

By putting it on ABC they're making it easier for people NOT to have a cable or satellite package and that would bury the network. While ad revenue would increase with higher ratings, it wouldn't be close to offsetting the money they'd lose from subscriptions.

You think it might be that 50% of their programming is SPORTSCENTER, and they cover maybe 10 games in an hour?

>>64911905
Shitty sports talk all around.

When you have Stephan A. And Skip talk about WHO PLAYED HARDER and who is MORE CLUTCH you start realizing it's bullshit

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>NYE games
>the one night people are not home
wtf were they thinking

>>64911878

And the reason other networks can do a mix of cable and OTA channels is because their business model is totally different.

ESPN costs every cable/satellite subscriber 7 dollars per month. The next most expensive channel is TBS at around 1 dollar per month.

FOX, CBS/Turner, etc... they all have business models that aren't dependent on subscriber fees, while ESPN's entire empire was built by strong arming the TV market into forcing ESPN into EVERY single cable or satellite package anyone can get. Which forces everyone with cable/sat to pay that 7 dollars whether they watch sports or not.

tldr the other networks aren't losing a lot from cable cutters, only ESPN and Disney are crumbling.

>>64911905
>spend out the nose for rights to everything
>only usually show one game at a time on the main networks and the other channel is just Sportscenter or some talking heads show hosted by a black journalism major and a washed up mediocre former athlete
Let em sink

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Deflategate karma spreading again

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>>64911768

>I called him racist
>Haha checkmate

You know that's not how debates are won right? I can show you proof if you would like to see proof but then you can use pic related as a response and I'm stumped. That's how millennials "argue" in the 21st century isn't it? Good luck with your nigger epidemic.

I got a season pass so I just go to games instead of watching them on TV

t. richfag

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And the real threat to ESPN isn't cord cutters, even though they're definitely killing ESPN slowly but surely, it's the actual cable and satellite providers.

They're in the money making business too, and cord cutters are definitely hurting their business. There's a lot of talk about unbundling cable and satellite packages and allowing subscribers to hand pick the channels they want so they're only paying for shit that they watch. This model would be amazing for the providers but would absolutely crush ESPN. If they do unbundle the packages, ESPN could lose anywhere from 30-50% of their subscribers right away.

That is how ESPN dies.

good. Fuck the sterile corporate bullshit of ESPN.

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Finally!

>>64912025

This. The a-la-carte cable package will be a thing in ten years, much in the same manner that free minutes became a thing (only oldfags will remember before iphones when minutes, not data, was the big thing for cellphones). Once Comcast goes a-la-carte, ESPN gets royally fucked. And at that point, why would any major league want to bother with ESPN when they could got to Netflix or Comcast directly, or just do things on their own?

>>64911957
Good luck with your literal actual epidemic of Muslims

PBUY

>>64911730

Its really annoying. Whenever I watch college sports with them they always go on and on about the top P5 programs when all I want to do is watch my team play

>>64912109

I think it'll be a thing in the next 2 years, with serious talks about changing the model happening this year.

If cable and satellite providers allowed customers to handpick their channels it'd make everyone's bill lower since nobody would be paying for shitty channels that they don't watch. It'd bring back a lot of cord cutters and be a win win for everyone except ESPN.

Didn't ESPN give a tranny a Most Courageous Person of the year award?

Yeah, fuck them

>>64912153

I doubt it would be able to bring back cord cutters, just slow the trend. Comcast is in the business of making money and as soon as they go a-la-carte they will also have data caps. The more people that cut the cord, the more Comcast pushes data caps.

>>64911217
So fucking glad. All the "reporters" were saying that Carson was a done deal because Iger made the owners wet.

Instead, the Rams are back home, and Spanos will be massively BLACKED if he actually decides to go to LA to play 2nd fiddle in JerryWorld West

As one of the few people who remembers ESPN before Disney it was a good time.

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>yfw barstool gets its own network and takes over

>>64912172

Handpicked tv packages will start on satellite. Dish or Directv will be first.

And it won't be just going through and picking each channel you want, since a lot of channels are actually bundled together.

Like FS1 and Fox News are bundled in with other Fox stuff. TBS, TNT, TruTV and shit like that together. The ESPNs are together...

Customers would just pick each little bundle they want to subscribe to and build their own monthly package. It's gonna happen really soon.

>>64912025

I sure as hell wouldn't pay for it. I only watch that shit channel when I have to -(CFP, occasional MNF game, occasional MLB "game of the week"). That's literally the only time I'm on that channel. Sportscenter has become a talking tabloid. It was good 15 years ago.

Any exclusive game they broadcast that I want to see I'll go watch at a local sports bar.

ESPN's main problem and the true reason for its decline is because of cable cutters.

Fuck a contracted Cable Bill. You can watch everything over the Internet with Amazon TV, Apple TV , Google TV , Roku, Livestreams , YouTube , ext.

The future is with a subscribed streaming service. I'm using Sling TV to get all my live sports like ESPN, it'll catch on and they'll recover I think

>>64912214

I'm aware. Sat Internet services (which my parents have) already have defacto data caps via the painfully slow bandwidth/speeds. So of course they would be the first to adopt it, and a-la-carte starts with smaller bundles before going down onto a channel-by-channel basis.

I actually like ESPN but that's mainly because it's good value for me. $20 a month for my sports channels, ESPN plus BT and Setanta. They have a lot of shitty filler shows but for that price it's worth it.

I don't think people would hate them so much if they weren't ripping them off

>>64912200
>ESPN before Disney
>pre-1996
how old ARE you? I was barely watching football a couple years by then, and we didn't have ESPN at my house.

>>64912109
>only oldfags

Dude I'm only 20 and I remember having to buy minutes for my Razr

>>64912285

Not him, but I'm 37 and remember it well. ESPN was a staple of my late childhood and high school years. It's painfully to see how far it's fallen since the SJW/jew cartel took it over.

>>64912248
This. I've been telling everyone I know that cable will be obsolete in the next 7-10 years. Only baby boomers will hold on to it since they're uncomfortable with the fast paced internet world.

Haven't had cable for the last two years, just hook my laptop up with my hdmi cable and I can get 90% of the sports I want (don't watch tv series, that's a huge waste of time) the other 10% I can't pick up I hit the sports bar like the other anon mentioned.

>>64911507

good goy/10

I don't have cable and no real interest in getting it. If I did, it would only be for Fox Sports so i can watch my baseball team.

ESPN just sort of has generic big games that I don't really care all that much about in general.

it's basically for piece of shit buffalo wild wings fans.

>>64912480
>hating on BWW

What's the matter, you don't like having fun? What's so bad about getting drunk and full of wings watching the game with your bros for $20.00?

I think you're taking this >muh secret internet club thing way too seriously.

But, this is assuming you have IRL friends, which this post is indicating that you don't.

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>>64912872
It makes me happy how infuriated you got over a mere sentence

>bringing politics into sports

Well there is the problem. They even link to Nate Silvermanowitzbergstein's website. That probably cost a pretty shekel.

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>>64910749

stephen a smith and pandering to the NBA was a bad idea

the NBA is ok.... but its barely a big sport

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There's only one man who can save them.

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>>64912311
>I'm 37
We really are here forever, aren't we

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>>64912311

>37
>still on 4chan

I thought that age group was limited to /pol/ and the influx of stormniggers and blue collared garbage who took memes too serious

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>>64913889

I'm afraid so, friend. The ride never ends.

good, ESPN deserves to die for turning mainstream sports coverage into a hot take spewing shitshow

>>64913889

I'm 35, and yes.

Been here almost a decade.

>>64913889
Almost 3 years and counting for me, fàm. I to think I had a pretty normal life before coming here…

>>64911287
Being surrounded by Arabs who hate you and kill you every chance they get is good times?

Sports journalism beyond coverage of games, and relevant news about teams (player/coach transactions, injuries etc) is all bullshit. ESPN took it to new heights. Literally entire segments on their bullshit talk shows about a quote or a tweet from a player...WHAT DOES IT MEAN? IS HE CLUTCH? HELL NEVER BE GOOD? FAKE DRAMA AND BULLSHIT?

It worked for a few years but then people got tired of it. I watched morning take like five years ago and i though that shit was stale as fuck already...and guess what its still on.

The vast majority of people dont give a fuck about the history of the sport, its players or even their own teams. And for the ones that do, theres just not enough money to be made off of them to make something like ESPN work. Which they are finding out about now.

So what's eventually going to replace 4chan

>>64914183
Government mandated safe spaces

>>64914183
redditt

>>64910749
HOLY SHIT THAT'S
THAT'S JUST
I DON'T GIVE A SINGLE FUCK, MAN.

Thanks for informing about some enterprise that I only hear about once every two years, though. 4shill sure is epic

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>>64910749

>>64914183

getting a life.

>>64911246
Would ESPN, technically a news network first and foremost, be more successful if they replaced some of their (shit) programming with hockey and other sports?

>>64911938

really?

They stuck a cricket game on NYE the last couple of years here and it has been a huge success

mostly just because Adelaide is NEET: the city

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>tfw Cable networks will die in your lifetime

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>>64911513
Holy shit, that's actually very accurate.

Mike really is the best in how he handles callers.

>Super Bowl contest coming up in 2 weeks

Should we try a live thread?

>>64910749
> Conveniently forgot Netflix was killing cable
> ABC Sports' return confirmed

Rest in pieces, greedy ESPN faggots

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>>64914582

>>64911526
>>64911526
>>64911526
>>64911526
>>64911526
This, ESPN inducosis

ESPN is the same company so butthurt about people like Jay Glazer and other channels they don't even mention them by name, while you have instances like Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth mentioning Joe Buck and Troy Aikmen by name during a broadcast. ESPN just tries hard to keep themselves secluded from everything and everyone outside their little box.

>>64914699

I wish there were enough Mike fans on 4chan for that to happen.

The Mike Francessa message board is hysterical

>>64916599
I am a Kansan that loves NY sports and Francesa is god-tier sports radio.
#mongonation

>>64916669

How do you listen ,online?

Sucks he's not on TV anymore. He was dumb to go to Fox Sports, he should have went to MSG, he'd never be interrupted by live sports and plus they'd replay a "best of" show like all day since they have close to no original programs

>>64916703
www.radio.com has the fan, just search WFAN. broadcast is only like a 2 or 3 minute delay

>>64916703
>>64916742
I use TuneIn radio on my phone

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>>64911095
They can start by doing something for cord cutters which is definitely where e sports gets it audience

ESPN's programming is tailored to manufacture stories, aka the CNN model. They air empty air bullshit in the day to get viewers and fill in sports to augment that reporting.

The current generation of Millennial don't resonate with that model of media. They enjoy shorter, shareable experience. ESPN isn't able to pivot in this direction quickly. They're tied into the business of making stories and celebrities.

Aljazeera America fell under for the same reasons.

>on campus

90+% of the fanbase of any given SEC school not named Vanderbilt is made up of hillbillies and/or rednecks who only ever come within a mile of a university to watch some "footbawl"

>>64914451
Not really because they have a game just about every night and Hockey doesn't have afternoon games where they would need it. And of the sports that do, they get about the same as running the Happy Hour shows. Fox has the rights to soccer sans WC and despite getting college BB now CBS gets the tournament. So, they have to go all in on the NBA somehow getting a rating spike with GS or the SEC NOT playing the national title game next year.

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>>64910749
its almost as if people dont like loud annoying niggers infesting every show

>>64911162
Fox lost NASCAR?? Also NBC is the Notre Dame Football Network as well.

>>64911794
But muh fall lineup.

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>>64917464
>Vanderbilt

who /dores/ here?

>>64911905
Sportcenter at its height was 1 hour of highlights from just about every game or US sport played the day before, with 1 interview on Sunday and Top Ten on Monday. They started doing all this other shit because by the time Sportcenter came on everyone already saw the highlights they wanted to see.

>>64918724
>they need to go back to an hour of highlights. it was enjoyable to watch back then

>ESPN grows so desperate they relegate all airtime solely to programs discussing and commenting on sports
>ESPN no longer has sports
>already produced spinoffs, so they can't pull an MTV2
>DIsney reveals SPEC (spectator), a new network that only broadcasts actual sports (with competitors and athletes)
>no commentary
>I'm finally at peace

>>64918987
>ESPN
>ESPN2
>ESPN3 (their streaming service)
>ESPN Classic
>ESPNU
>ESPNews
>SEC Network
>Longhorn Network
>ESPN+
>ESPN Deportes
Ten networks for the company the brings you the National Spelling Bee on its main channel.

>>64918724
>>64918724

But the early sports center hosts turned in to personalities and a few got famous, I think ESPN realized that sports fans would watch outspoken entertaining people debate sports by witnessing the rise of some of the SC anchors

>>64919114
So what your saying is, this is Olbermann's fault.

>>64919105
>>SEC Network
>>Longhorn Network


Huh, I knew ESPN fellated the SEC network, but I always thought they were independent entities. I didn't know ESPN actually owned the SEC and Longhorn networks.

Fags.

>espn starts covering video games
>video game geeks thinks its because their gay ass "sports" are popular and not thats its a desperate attempt to fleece as much money from nerds because the ship sinks
kek

>>64919105
>ESPN +
>ESPN Classic

Didn't know those two channels still existed. Won't be shocked if those two are the first to go.

>>64919296
Classic exists but you actually have to buy it separately in another package. It's broadcast of the BCS title game was actually pretty awesome since it was just in stadium sound with no commentary. If only they did that more often.

>>64919154
Olberman
Kilborne
Patrick
Berman
Scott

They started developing a cult of personality in the 90s

>muh his and hers
>muh debate shows

seriously how gay is espn now? it's ran by liberal democrats and feminists. No thanks, jeff.

>>64919442
They literally dedicate about 5 hours to unemployed blacks every weekday, they air fist take, then h&h and then air first take again for good measure. It's unreal.

>>64919416

If I'm scrolling through sometimes ESPN Classic is showing old strong man comps from the early nineties and Brent Musberger is lustily interviewing the contestants. I bet Brent was the guy everyone picked on there. (bc lazy eye Scott was black)

>>64919495
this. its fucking weird t b h

>>64914017
>>64913889
I'm 37 as well. Not joking either.

What will happen to Kike and Mike?

>>64919495

That's good business 2bh breh. Who's at home weekdays during the day watching tv more than anyone else? Well why the fuck wouldn't you cater tv shows to them?

Just like soap operas started on the radio then onto tvs for housewives cuz they were who was home then.

More women work now so those aren't as big, but there's a lotta black ppl sittin at home on weekdays that's for sure. Whole new demo to take advantage of.

Like all the ghetto "court" shows that are all over during the day.

>>64919713
They lose whatever bonus they get for simulcasting on ESPN2. But they are still ESPN Radio's mourning show so I think they are good.

>>64911246
nobody gives a fuck about hockey

>>64918409
FOX still has the same stable of races they've had for the past several years, but NBCSN picked up the races that ESPN and TNT used to have the rights to.

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>ESPN is going all in with their black Grantland and hope to launch later this year

I'm sure that'll save em lol

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>ESPN revenue is currently 9 bil
>Estimates are that under a la carte model, ESPN could only bring in 4 bil
>ESPN is on the hook for 5.8 bil per year just in broadcasting fees in upcoming years, not to mention other costs like labor and facilities
holy shit they might be losing a LOT of money soon

>>64925993

if cable companies unbundle they're gonna lose about 40-50% of their subs and sink like a brick. they'll be laying off ppl and cancelling shows everywhere.

It's ok guys they're esports now

http://espn.go.com/esports/

ESPN used to have an international channel (ESPN america) that was goat tier. Super Bowls, World Series, NBA finals etc.. and daily programming like a European specific sportscenter, PTI and that annoying hispanic guy (Dan something) and his mentally challenged father sports talk.
But as American sports rights expanded throughout Europe, the channel got watered down to a 24-hour loop of MLB and college hoops. The occasional PTI couldn't show any clips, so it was basically two guys talking about clips they couldn't show. After that, my life was never the same

>>64910749
This has more to do with people getting rid of cable in general. The only thing really getting cable alive is live sports. Without it, most if not all people would just get rid of cable.

who even watches ESPN anymore?

heee

>>64911568
The Ticket in Dallas.

Notable moments/segments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5gTZjuo0rc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrD62ERROQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJowXgH3YU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojj3yUx27Cs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzPuK0iMueo

>>64910749
They deserve to die for putting the CFB semis on NYE

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>>64910749

Here are my experiences with ESPN general programming in 2015

>turn on sportscenter
>it's two bimbo women talking about football
>turn it off

>turn on sportscenter
>it's two bimbo women talking about draft kings picks
>turn it off

>turn on sportscenter
>it's blatant TMZ tier lebron coverage of NFL shilling for deflategate pseudoscience
>turn it off

That basically sums it up. It is unwatchable now.

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>>64910749
E! can go fuck themselves right into bankruptcy

best style ever, espn sucks

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>michelle beadle announces she will stop following wwe
>wwe results now posted on espn

I hope espn will be as dead as stuart scott

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>tfw esports saves television

>>64938571
jesus christ what is this shitshow

>>64938571
>manlet cant lift high test
>manlet cant left femlet high test
both failures

>>64911256
>Stephen A: Booker T was NOT selected to be in SummerSlam! McMahon is a racists!