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I believe it was ESPN that experimented with broadcasting a pro football game with only play-by-play and no commentators or analysts. Refeshing, it was but it just didn’t catch on.

That was NBC back in 1980. I remember watching the game. Maybe ESPN did it too.

Anyway, ESPN's revenue problems are because people are cutting the cable TV cord in favor of streaming services like Hulu and Netflix. I don't think anything can stop that trend, it's the future of how people are going to watch TV. If ESPN was smart they would start their own streaming service devoted to sports. And drop the political commentary. People don't watch sports for politics.

I look for Disney to spin off ESPN as a separate company sometime in the near future.

I notice that CNN uses a website “Bleacher Report” for their sports reporting. They just sub-contracted the whole shooting match. ESPN could have been that service if they weren’t a wholly-owned subsidiary of a single broadcast network.

Anyway, ESPN's revenue problems are because people are cutting the cable TV cord in favor of streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.

I'm sure those running don't think the far-left views and one-sided debates have nothing to do with it because of that. But, that has turned off viewers and resulted in fewer viewers.