Posted on 11/23/2016 2:20:16 PM PST by drewh
The irony is ESPN has more than its share of sexual harassment incidents, including many long time personalities. Remember the “Frat House” analogies when one of the crises broke out?
I love college football and ESPN is really good at covering it . . . even though some of its PC-token announcers and analysts are irritating and not very smart. Nevertheless, I am long past watching SC or that obnoxious OTL or anything else not dealing with the college game, nor watching commercial breaks.
Tape the games you want to watch and then make good use of FF and Delete. Saves time and irritation.
I could live without it nowadays myself.
The spouse is the sports addict and keeps it. She pays the bill so it’s here until the addiction passes or something bad happens.
ESPN is better off showing Australian rules football than the liberal all stars all afternoon and the web site is worse than the broadcast.
And I'm sure the mediots are scratching their heads wondering why.
NFL and ESPN are left wing thugs
how does it shed subscribers when the subscribers are cable companies that make ESPN compulsory
I think it’s fake news
Aww, so sad. Too bad.
“Republicans buy sneakers too.” Michael Jordan’s motto matters.
Yes
Hoping to cut the cord in the next two months. Of course I said that a year ago!
I tune in to ESPN around 10 PM (an increasingly rare event) to watch the daily recap of sports through Sportscenter. A week or two ago I turned to the station when I was greeted by two shrill lady broadcasters arguing on screen about some faux controversy. Thirty seconds later I changed the channel and I haven’t been back.
I want to see sports. I don’t want to feel like I’m being nagged when I’m trying to relax while watching sports. ESPN has really jumped the shark with their political commentary from nearly every newscaster.
Cable companies pay ESPN, or any programming supplier, a negotiated rate that boils down to ratings, regardless of how the details are structured. Fewer subscribers means lower ratings, and the fee goes down when the contract gets renewed. It’s simple supply and demand.
-—Cable companies pay ESPN-—
I understand all that. I can’t unsubscribe from ESPN unless I drop cable or downgrade to no service.
So, does the loss of 650 k ESPN customers translate to the real loss of cable providers of 650 k customers,
If so it seems that is the bigstory
Yes.
“...prevent them from going off on prolonged, leftist political rants.”
So shorter leftist political rants are OK? What’s the time limit?
Explained here:
Who needs sports tv when we each have two legs that love to move themselves.
Gravestone epithet:
Here lies Bob. Watched 20,000 hours of sports.
No no no... You aren’t far enough to the left. We need more Kaepernics and Olbermans. Put your liberal politics in to even more stuff.
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