Bloodletting continues at ESPN…

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- 04/26/2017 at 1:03 PM #33140
  
  PlainsUte
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  Probably also the end of escalation in conference/team TV contracts, though that is still something that will grab a live audience.
  
  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/espn-will-cut-100-air-personalities-today-123057142.html
- 04/26/2017 at 2:37 PM #33141
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  GameForAnyFuss
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  I really think this still says more about ESPN itself than it does about the general state of sports. ESPN is now paying the price for its programming decisions, such as:
  – Trying to become a football-only network
  – Deciding to focus their programming around people talking about sports instead of sports themselves
  – Trying to politicize/socialize sports
  – Hitching their wagon to non-sports like poker and spelling bees
  The sports world is fine. It’s ESPN that is having a day of reckoning here.
  - 04/26/2017 at 4:02 PM #33146
    
    PlainsUte
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    Yeah, should have went with Dodge Ball or Pinochle, instead. 😉
    I suppose the other networks, not being exclusively sports, can absorb any short-term losses for sports rights in the name of using sports to promote its other shows.
  - 04/26/2017 at 10:33 PM #33154
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    Coreyc04
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    The biggest reason ESPN is dying is because it has hitched its wagon to cable and satellite providers. They should create a package you can buy separate from them for a monthly fee. They have had this happen and now many other competitors for your eyeballs have come about as well with top notch sports programming. They used to be a monopoly in this space and now they are in big trouble.
    - 04/27/2017 at 2:04 PM #33165
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      utefansince79
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      I noted on another board that ESPN has in the past been getting lots of money from cable/satelite subscribers who watch little/no sports. Many of those people are moving over to netflix/hulu/etc now.
  - 04/26/2017 at 10:49 PM #33156
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    Anonymous
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    This has much more to do with the changing technology landscape than any of the things you listed.
    
    But I agree, they’ve become the MTV of sports broadcasting.
- 04/26/2017 at 7:44 PM #33149
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  Tony (admin)
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  Wait a minute. There are 100 air personalities to fire? Wow.
- 04/26/2017 at 10:30 PM #33153
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  Coreyc04
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  I think the Zoobs should be scared because this means they are very expendable by ESPN. I doubt they get near the money this time around because of this.
- 04/28/2017 at 7:19 PM #33184
  
  Heidi Keever
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  I saw in Facebook, so I’m not real sure how true it is, but Mark May is also gone.
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