Posted on 10/11/2020 6:29:08 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Get woke, go broke, BLMBA-style. – The TV ratings for the Marxist terrorist-loving, Chinese Communist Party-hugging National Basketball Association continued their historic cratering on Friday night. Game 5 of the league’s finals series between [checks notes] the Los Angeles Lakers and the [checks notes again] Miami Heat drew less than 1/3rd the TV audience that the same game in last year’s finals series enjoyed.
From a report at the Daily Caller:
Game five of the NBA Finals got some atrocious TV ratings Friday night when the Heat beat the Lakers.
According to TVLine, the game had 5.7 million total viewers on ABC in the early numbers as the Heat pushed the series to 3-2 with a big win. To tell you how bad the numbers were last night, game five in 2019 had 18.22 million viewers, according to SportsMediaWatch.com.
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Ouch. This unmitigated disaster obviously could not possibly happen to a more deserving bunch of people, given the league’s embrace of the Marxist terrorist group Black Lives Matter, including the display of BLM logos and messages on the courts and players’ uniforms during this season.
That decision has proved so disastrous that the League’s wraith-like commissioner – who looks for all the world like a villain from some Harry Potter movie – Adam Silver announced earlier this week that it will be discontinued starting next year. “I understand those people who are saying ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game,” Silver admitted during his too-little-too-late press conference.
Of course, Silver has been the ring-leader in the League’s decisions to cater to Marxist domestic terrorists and communist Chinese brutes in recent years, so much of the blame for the audience collapse falls at his feet. As always, leftists truly do destroy everything they touch.
Get woke, go broke, ESPN-style. – Don’t look now, but the wokest channel in sports broadcasting is about to have yet another major layoff. From report at InsideHook:
The Worldwide Leader could lay off hundreds of employees in the coming weeks, sources told Front Office Sports. On the high end, 700 employees could be gone. On the low end, 300.
While the majority of layoffs are expected to affect employees who work behind the camera, some on-air talents are also expected to be let go, especially if they are working with an expiring contract.
A desire to cut costs, potentially tens of millions of dollars in salary, ahead of upcoming rights negotiations with the NFL, NHL and NBA over the next few years could be a contributing factor as to why ESPN was willing to let Keith Olbermann out of his contract to launch a nightly YouTube show about politics.
ESPN currently employs around 4,000 people at its headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, and about 6,500 worldwide.
“They’re going after a bigger NFL portfolio. They’re going after the NHL. They need stuff for ESPN+. That all takes money,” a source told FOS. “They are looking at a lot of different things. They’re looking closely at their entire operation.”
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So, think about the implications of this and myriad other stories about shrinking audiences for major sports and the channels that televise them. All of these sports leagues rely heavily on TV revenues to fund their massive new stadiums, exhorbitant player and coach’s salaries and other operations.
As their viewership shrinks – the NFL’s has declined by more than 30% since 2017, and Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have also taken a huge hit this year thanks to their BLM embrace – the product they have to sell becomes much less valuable to ESPN and the major networks who have themselves profited so greatly from the popularity of pro sports in recent decades.
Over the next few years, the overarching contracts, which typically have a 5-year term, for all of these pro sports leagues are coming up for renegotiation. Lower audiences will translate to smaller contracts lower revenues for the teams to split up and lard over their overrated players. Who knows, maybe guys like Silver and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who played such large roles in creating this mess in the first place, will suffer as well.
We can only hope.
Let’s remember that Ed Buck is a very, very, very good friend of Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu. – A federal grand jury on Saturday returned four additional indictments against alleged multiple-murderer of male prostitutes Ed Buck:
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Central District of California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Grand Jury Charges Ed Buck with Four Additional Felonies, Including that He Enticed Victims to Travel Interstate to Engage in Prostitution LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Edward Buck with four additional felonies, including that he allegedly enticed victims – including a man who died at his West Hollywood apartment after he administered drugs to him – to travel interstate to engage in prostitution.
Buck, 65, was arrested in September 2019 after being charged in United States District Court with providing methamphetamine to a man who died after receiving the drug intravenously. Since that time, federal authorities have continued to investigate Buck for additional crimes.
The four additional counts charged today – bringing the total number of charges in this case to nine counts – include one count alleging that Buck knowingly enticed 26-year-old Gemmel Moore to travel to the Los Angeles area to engage in prostitution. Buck allegedly provided methamphetamine to Moore, who overdosed on the drug and died on July 27, 2017.
Buck also is charged with another count of enticing another man to travel with the intent of engaging in prostitution.
The superseding indictment also charges Buck with one count of knowingly and intentionally distributing methamphetamine, and one count of using his residence for the purpose of distributing narcotics such as methamphetamine, and the sedatives gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and clonazepam.
Last year, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging that Buck “engaged in a pattern of soliciting men to consume drugs that Buck provided and perform sexual acts at Buck’s apartment,” which is a practice described as “party and play.” Buck allegedly solicited victims on social media platforms, including a gay dating website, and used a recruiter to scout and proposition men.
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For those who may not be aware because our corrupt news media has put up a wall of silence on this case in order to protect their Democrat masters, Mr. Buck has long been a major fundraiser and party host for Democrat political candidates in California.
Here he is with Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu and other Democrat politicians:
The Power Brokers Behind Adam Schiff | by H1veM1nd | Medium
That’s Buck on the far left.
Here is a montage of Buck pictured with other Democrat luminaries who he has be-friended over the years:
Salisbury News: PHOTOS: Top Democrat Donor Ed Buck With His Democrat Pals and His Black Male Prostitutes -- 2 Dead Now!
Oh.
That is all.
TV money has ruined sports.
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“Adam Silver announced earlier this week that it will be discontinued starting next year.”
Meanwhile, in other news...
“Warning! Planet-killing asteroid to strike earth within minutes! Story at eleven!”
I can’t believe the number of people—and businesses—who blindly support BLM. BLM is nothing more than a bunch of looting, murderous, thugs with a slogan. Now it’s been shown they are ripoff artists to boot:
I refuse to support sports that get involved with BLM, or businesses who donate to the 3 women in LA who take their money under the guise of BLM. Racism is a learned behavior and blacks need to ask why they are discriminated against more than other minorities groups...there’s a reason and it’s a problem blacks must address from within the black community. We’ve thrown $4 trillion at the problem since Johnson’s War on Poverty and look where it’s taken us. No more until we see an internal effort by blacks to fix their own problems.
Lives matter!
If you need a color
in front of those words,
YOU are a racist.
I think people found other stuff to do during the lockdown w/o sports and find that more fun than being a couch potato watching sports
My thought also. Around here there are way more people out enjoying the great outdoors than in previous years. Not sure what is going to happen when bad weather hits.
The magnificent flailing of televised sports would perhaps
give a clue to the brain dead pollsters that our POTUS, DJT,
has not yet lost his MOJO.
Continue to MAGA, Mr. President. “Let The Sunshine In”!
That, too.
Less money from advertising and broadcast means less money for player contracts. These boob players never really, or are incapable, of thinking their kneeling through. I am looking forward to seeing the free agent mlb contracts this winter. A guy like George Springer, 31, looking for his last multi year deal, will lose tens of millions because mlb insisted on doing the blm crawl this summer. The SJW warriors need to sign ASAP, before the 2021 season ticket packages go out and crater.
Yesterday, I tried to watch a 1984 football game between Penn State and Boston College on BTN streamed on ustvgo.tv.
I cut the cable cord but occasionally stream for free. I was at that PSU/BC game in '84 as a student. There's a boat load of memories of games like that for me. I found it intolerable to watch. I kept thinking about how sports were stolen from me. The contrast was too great between yesteryear and today. I turned it off and went about my life and did something constructive.
I seriously doubt if I will ever watch sports again. I can keep my memories and occasionally reminisce, but I have to learn to keep that to a minimum so I don't ruin a good mood.
Grown men (many now tattooed & pierced thugs), getting dirty rich for playing with a ball with other rich, grown men, and other men and women getting rich for talking about the rich, grown men that play with balls...that’s pro sports.
And how many American men know more about pro sports than about their childrens’ schools or neighbors or county government?
And I pay more for beer and pizza because they pay a lot to advertise on pro sports shows.
F that.
Take a good look at those at BLM rallies and those doing the destruction. A common denominator is young WHITE FEMALES. They are also a very large part of the very WHITE racist Fascists in Antifa.It seems like America is petrified of angry women.
“The Worldwide Leader could lay off hundreds of employees in the coming weeks, sources told Front Office Sports. On the high end, 700 employees could be gone. On the low end, 300.”
This is not due totally to funds concerning the sports side. Bob Iger, Chairman of Disney, wants to open Disneyland and this was his way of pressuring Newsome, California governor, into allowing the opening. He quit Newsome’s task force and made the promise (threat) of un-employing a number of people besides those at ESPN. This started back in March and has reached this point when Newsome wouldn’t allow Disneyland to open even though Disney has shown success in Florida. Disney has kept benefits on the books for non-working cast members since the beginning. But they are applying pressure.
Some of you will remind me that the offices for ESPN are in the northeast, but there are a number of major pieces in California:
ESPN Production Internship, Los Angeles - Summer 2020
ESPN
Los Angeles, CA
Director, Business Strategy
ESPN
Burbank, CA
Associate Editor
ESPN
Los Angeles, CA
Coordinating Studio Operator
ESPN
Los Angeles, CA
Producer I, ESPN China partnership with Tencent
ESPN
Los Angeles, CA
Sr. iOS Engineer (ESPN - LA)
Direct-to-Consumer and International
Glendale, CA
To name a few. These house a lot of people and both Iger and Newsome are aware of that.
rwood
I think it would be entertaining if every anti-American league of losers went belly-up. LOL.
Get woke, go broke, BLMBA-style. – The TV ratings for the Marxist terrorist-loving, Chinese Communist Party-hugging National Basketball Association continued their historic cratering on Friday night. Game 5 of the league’s finals series between [checks notes] the Los Angeles Lakers and the [checks notes again] Miami Heat drew less than 1/3rd the TV audience that the same game in last year’s finals series enjoyed.
From a report at the Daily Caller:
Game five of the NBA Finals got some atrocious TV ratings Friday night when the Heat beat the Lakers.
According to TVLine, the game had 5.7 million total viewers on ABC in the early numbers as the Heat pushed the series to 3-2 with a big win.To tell you how bad the numbers were last night, game five in 2019 had 18.22 million viewers, according to SportsMediaWatch.com.
[End]
Ouch. This unmitigated disaster obviously could not possibly happen to a more deserving bunch of people, given the league’s embrace of the Marxist terrorist group Black Lives Matter, including the display of BLM logos and messages on the courts and players’ uniforms during this season.
That decision has proved so disastrous that the League’s wraith-like commissioner – who looks for all the world like a villain from some Harry Potter movie – Adam Silver announced earlier this week that it will be discontinued starting next year. “I understand those people who are saying ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game,” Silver admitted during his too-little-too-late press conference.
Of course, Silver has been the ring-leader in the League’s decisions to cater to Marxist domestic terrorists and communist Chinese brutes in recent years, so much of the blame for the audience collapse falls at his feet. As always, leftists truly do destroy everything they touch.
The Worldwide Leader could lay off hundreds of employees in the coming weeks, sources told Front Office Sports. On the high end, 700 employees could be gone. On the low end, 300.
While the majority of layoffs are expected to affect employees who work behind the camera, some on-air talents are also expected to be let go, especially if they are working with an expiring contract.
A desire to cut costs, potentially tens of millions of dollars in salary, ahead of upcoming rights negotiations with the NFL, NHL and NBA over the next few years could be a contributing factor as to why ESPN was willing to let Keith Olbermann out of his contract to launch a nightly YouTube show about politics.
ESPN currently employs around 4,000 people at its headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, and about 6,500 worldwide.
“They’re going after a bigger NFL portfolio. They’re going after the NHL. They need stuff for ESPN+. That all takes money,” a source told FOS. “They are looking at a lot of different things. They’re looking closely at their entire operation.”
[End]
So, think about the implications of this and myriad other stories about shrinking audiences for major sports and the channels that televise them. All of these sports leagues rely heavily on TV revenues to fund their massive new stadiums, exhorbitant player and coach’s salaries and other operations.
As their viewership shrinks – the NFL’s has declined by more than 30% since 2017, and Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have also taken a huge hit this year thanks to their BLM embrace – the product they have to sell becomes much less valuable to ESPN and the major networks who have themselves profited so greatly from the popularity of pro sports in recent decades.
Over the next few years, the overarching contracts, which typically have a 5-year term, for all of these pro sports leagues are coming up for renegotiation. Lower audiences will translate to smaller contracts lower revenues for the teams to split up and lard over their overrated players. Who knows, maybe guys like Silver and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who played such large roles in creating this mess in the first place, will suffer as well.
We can only hope.
Let’s remember that Ed Buck is a very, very, very good friend of Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu. – A federal grand jury on Saturday returned four additional indictments against alleged multiple-murderer of male prostitutes Ed Buck:
Department of JusticeU.S. Attorney’s OfficeCentral District of California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, August 4, 2020Grand Jury Charges Ed Buck with Four Additional Felonies, Including that He Enticed Victims to Travel Interstate to Engage in Prostitution
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Edward Buck with four additional felonies, including that he allegedly enticed victims – including a man who died at his West Hollywood apartment after he administered drugs to him – to travel interstate to engage in prostitution.
Buck, 65, was arrested in September 2019 after being charged in United States District Court with providing methamphetamine to a man who died after receiving the drug intravenously. Since that time, federal authorities have continued to investigate Buck for additional crimes.
The four additional counts charged today – bringing the total number of charges in this case to nine counts – include one count alleging that Buck knowingly enticed 26-year-old Gemmel Moore to travel to the Los Angeles area to engage in prostitution. Buck allegedly provided methamphetamine to Moore, who overdosed on the drug and died on July 27, 2017.
Buck also is charged with another count of enticing another man to travel with the intent of engaging in prostitution.
The superseding indictment also charges Buck with one count of knowingly and intentionally distributing methamphetamine, and one count of using his residence for the purpose of distributing narcotics such as methamphetamine, and the sedatives gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and clonazepam.
Last year, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging that Buck “engaged in a pattern of soliciting men to consume drugs that Buck provided and perform sexual acts at Buck’s apartment,” which is a practice described as “party and play.” Buck allegedly solicited victims on social media platforms, including a gay dating website, and used a recruiter to scout and proposition men.
[End]
For those who may not be aware because our corrupt news media has put up a wall of silence on this case in order to protect their Democrat masters, Mr. Buck has long been a major fundraiser and party host for Democrat political candidates in California.
Here he is with Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu and other Democrat politicians:
That’s Buck on the far left.
Here is a montage of Buck pictured with other Democrat luminaries who he has be-friended over the years:
Oh.
That is all.
I stopped watching the NBA years ago when skill and finesse were replaced by huge players being allowed to just ram their way to the basket. Then it got worse when the head to toe tattoos started to appear, along with greater and greater thuggishness. Then the marketing skewed more and more toward an exclusively black audience, and now it’s a league only for the inner city gangbanger demographic.
Until the next election year.
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