Mom and Dad have the cable/sat sub and give the password to their kids so they can access it through Roku/Appletv etc. Or they find the streams online. Or they're just not into sports.
Posted on 03/28/2017 11:20:24 AM PDT by blam
As more and more sports fans turn off ESPN to protest the network’s left-wing social and political agenda, parent company Disney’s decision to extend current CEO Bob Iger’s contract through 2019 means the “world’s leader in sports entertainment” will continue on its merry way of alienating a large segment of Americans. Breitbart reported in November that ESPN lost 3.2 million subscribers in just over a year. Moreover, for the last few years the sports network has lost 300,000 subscribers a month. In October alone, the beleaguered network lost 621,000 subscribers.
The decision to keep Iger instead of moving in another direction, such as promoting COO Thomas Staggs to the spot, has a number of substantial business implications for ESPN. Awful Announcing reports:
From the outside, at least, it seems like Iger is quite satisfied with ESPN’s leadership and with the network’s path on most fronts. Specifically, he’s regularly spoken about how important it is for ESPN to be in “skinny bundles” (including streaming options from Sling, DirecTV and more) and about ESPN’s forthcoming over-the-top offering. Those views wouldn’t necessarily be shared by a different CEO; Staggs, for example, spoke much more about the importance of the traditional multi-channel bundle, so a Disney CEO with his views might focus more on that side, or conversely, another Disney CEO might want ESPN to quickly go into over-the-top in a larger way (standalone access to all ESPN content, including TV channels) rather than starting with the ESPN3-focused light approach Iger seems to be promoting.
Putting those circumstances aside, the crux of ESPN continuing on in its political and social agenda derives from the fact that Iger is a strident lifelong Democrat. One so committed...
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Good!
Let them commit financial suicide!
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Of course not. They’d rather fly into the side of a mountain than change course, which would mean admitting they were wrong.
Besides, I suspect they’re getting their money from enemies of America, both here and in other countries. Their job is to move the agenda forward.
Mom and Dad have the cable/sat sub and give the password to their kids so they can access it through Roku/Appletv etc. Or they find the streams online. Or they're just not into sports.
They do not know how to change from the templates ESPN has created. No one there is smart enough to know what else to do. Just like the rest of the university and college-untrained illiterates in various media, they be stuck where they is and without hope or help from those around them.
that's all I need to know!
Jeff Bezos of Amazon owns the Washington Post. He doesn't care if it loses money. It's a propaganda organ.
Good. Hope they are destroyed to the ground. And then the ground is salted.
Many of us go to sports to get away from social issues and politics. If we want such we know where else to go and find it. ESPN don’t care.
If most all of the “professional” political reporters suck at their jobs, what make the sportscasters think they can do better?
Everything progressives touch, they destroy.
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Promote, extend contracts and give raises and bonuses to the senior execs making the crappy decisions. Lay-off frontline employees and alienate customers. Seems par for the course.
I am hoping for the birth of a conservative news/entertainment conglomerate.
They, like CNN or MSNBC, don’t really care about what the viewers want. If advertising revenue falls, they’ve got Soros or someone like him to have their back.
If ratings/viewership mattered, CNN would have been out of business a long, long time ago.
I stumbled on to this article yesterday prior to a doc appt, then couldn’t find it again. I thought it was well written and researched. I was surprised not to be able to find any FReeper discussions regarding it, strange.
The primary problem with ESPN’s business model is that it required ~$8 per subscriber per month. ESPN counted on this revenue whether or not the subscriber was even a sports fan. In this age of cable cutters and TV viewers seeking a la carte solutions, ESPN is hemorrhaging subscribers. It has more to do with cable subscribers eliminating channels they never wanted in the first place. It has less — far, far less — to do with sports fans giving up on ESPN due to lefty politics.
This is a case of narrative building on the right. Is saying ESPN is losing subscribers due to politics an accurate assessment? Most certainly not. But narrative!
Not necessarily CNN is world wide and if you go into DAMNED near any public place airports, hospitals ect. CNN is on their DAMNED TVs!!! Took my mom to military dispensary for scripts last month CNN on 2 TV’s in lobby asked guy for remote changed our TV on our side to Fox, it was so funny about 3/4 of the people on the other side of room moved over to our side to watch!!! Everyone had to shift chairs to fit the folks in!! Finally one guy on other side asked me to change their channel also!!! HEE, HEE guy at counter says to me BOY are you a popular gal today!!! Asked me the channel and said he would make sure he had it on each morning maybe it would make him as popular each morning EVERYONE laughed!!!
“Breitbart reported in November that ESPN lost 3.2 million subscribers in just over a year.”
How do you lose subscribers to something you don’t need to subscribe to? You get ESPN for “free” if you have cable or dish or direct tv.
I hate it when even our own side (Breitbart in this case) tries to bamboozle us.
I absolutely detest ESPN, but I also detest people on our side when they lie to us. ESPN lost viewers not because they cancelled their subscription to ESPN but because more and more people are cutting their cable, or more likely because people like me stopped watching it even though we still pay for it if we have cable.
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