Posted on 11/10/2017 6:39:01 AM PST by mandaladon
ESPN is learning a hard lesson about politics after needlessly dragging itself into the fray: you cant please everyone. If the network panders to one side of the political aisle, it alienates the other half of its viewership.
The backlash over politicized sports coverage has ESPN reeling. The network is finding itself forced to layoff 100 employees, the Hollywood Reporter found.
What makes this worst for the heads of the Disney-owned company is that the layoffs come after they delivered a mass firing of 300 employeesfive percent of the ESPN workforcein 2015.
The now-frequent large-scale personnel cuts are indicative of internal problems and a struggle to retain its audience.
ESPN has gone from having 100 million subscribers in 2011 to just 87 million today. The drop in subscribers has happened even as the network has taken initiatives to remain relevant, including striking a $1.4 billion-a-year NBA contract.
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Sage Steele has been doing that for years. Her dad was the first black football player at West Point. She’s conservative and a wonderful person.
ESPN - Employers Stay Politically Neutral?
I am sure that Merry Christmas is forbidden at ESPN.
Happening to a VERY deserving group of people.
Politics, and all that implies, has no business in sports. PERIOD.
Hey ESPN, when will you quit kicking yourself in the ass?
Okay on NBC vs ESPN, they're both the same when it comes to broadcasting games.
It was too early in the AM to think clearly on only one cup of Seattle's Best #5 espresso grind. Come back later in the day when I'm more coherent. :)
Well, they do have the name ESP - especially - N - negroes.
Costas is especially repellent but a bent toward mindless drivel seems to be the stock in trade for common taters.
ESPN! All racism. All the time.
When I used to watch FB I couldn’t take those “color commentators” with their mindless drivel over analyzing a play. I did like Al Michaels though; Cris Collinsworth is a jerk.
Keep shrinking like the NFL!
ESPN is feeling the heat.
Sage Steele has been doing that for years. Her dad was the first black football player at West Point. Shes conservative and a wonderful person.
My cable company raised their rates several times a year the last few years, mainly due to ESPN, they even admitted to it. The final straw was when they didn’t raise it but added a sports fee. I don’t watch sports, but had to pay for it.
Made sure they knew this when i dropped them.
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