So ... how's the PC libtardism working for you idiots?
Posted on 08/05/2016 12:29:44 PM PDT by Zakeet
In the past five years ESPN has lost 11,346,000 subscribers according to Nielsen data.
If you combine that with ESPN2 and ESPNU subscriber losses this means that ESPN has lost over a billion dollars in cable and satellite revenue just in the past five years, an average of $200 million each year. That total of a billion dollars hits ESPN in the pocketbook not just on a yearly basis, but for every year going forward.
It's gone forever.
That's not just bad, this is downright cataclysmic.
And it's getting worse.
In the past year ESPN lost 4.159 million subscribers, that's another $350 million in lost revenue across the ESPN family of networks.
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I'm not trying to be alarmist here, but the simple fact is this -- I don't see how ESPN's business model makes sense at all by 2021.
The "Worldwide Leader in Sports" is a dead channel walking.
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So ... how's the PC libtardism working for you idiots?
I stringently avoid ESPN. Once in a while, in football season when I cannot find any other score-reporting service in real time, I will click on it. Never watch ANY pregame or post-game show. Used to love SportsCenter. No more.
Trouble is, there is almost no place left to go . . . no place to shop, no place for entertainment, no place for college . . . no place even to work - and practically no place at all to comment on what’s happening without being propagandized to death and then reported to your boss (see Review, National).
Our options are limited bud. I couldnt even stand NFL on NBC before Costas shoots his libtardic piehole and rants about leftwing bullcrap. and GAYSPN keeps their faggot headlines which i avoid at all costs.
11 million subscribers?
That’s a good start.
I would like to see those numbers for all the PC left wing cable channels.
Come on, guys, lets cut the cord and send them a message straight to their bottom line.
I will only sign up for cable tv if they offer a la carte programming.
I refuse to pay for the rope they will hang me with.
Disney destroys and infects everything they touch with their pc leftism. Just wait for the new Star Wars tv shows. They will infect it like the muppets..trannies, gays, etc
Liberalism destroys everything it touches.
Their Sports Center hosts are smug arrogant a-holes, who think they are much funnier than they actually are. And then add in the non-sports commentary, I haven’t been able to watch them for years. Not even long enough to get the scores I might be looking for.
I think this all started with Keith Olberdork
I’ll be happy when I see Buster Olney with a tin cup on some street corner; begging for change.
Well, I hate to disagree, but I don’t know where the data is for subscribers leaving based on political ideology.
The Cable business is being re-invented. ESPN was once a bundled channel that came as part of your “basic” or “expanded basic” package. That is no longer the case in many areas of the country where ESPN is no an ala carte channel that people have decided not to pay additional fees for.
Everybody in cable is losing subscribers. Acting like this is a one channel things is highly disingenuous. That being said there’s still 10s of millions of cable subscribers, so this “dead media” walking this is a bit premature.
True. And I hated him when he was just a local jackass in LA. He finally got his - been fired from every job he ever had. I think he is relegated to the internet in his mother’s basement.
ESPN has the very worst sportscasters in the business. They think they have to continually fill the air with their inexhaustible sports triva knowledge while they totally ignore what is happening in the game. Or they bring some sports personality into the booth and carry on a seemingly never ending conversation with him/her while again totally ignoring what is happening in the game we tuned in to watch. We are sick of it. Please bring back the old-school announcers that concentrated on the game and the players involved.
...for the rest of us it's called..."outsourcing".
(welcome to the party, pal...)
Years ago I had some heated e-mail exchanges with him. What a pompous ass.
A million are probably Pats fans boycotting due to Mortensen and the crooked coverage of Deflategate
They are toast, in their present business model.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer network.
Millenials are just not that interested.
Yep. Millennials don’t (for the most part), do cable. They do internet and stream what they want. My nephew wouldn’t have cable, except it came with the apartment he’s in. I don’t think he’s ever used it.
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