Posted on 11/09/2020 6:22:09 PM PST by 11th_VA
ESPN is cutting another 500 jobs as pressures from the Covid-19 pandemic are weighing on the sports network. Apparently, the restart of almost all major sports – albeit draped in political messaging for the last 6 months – hasn’t been enough to save the network from a fresh round of layoffs.
The network is blaming the coronavirus, naturally, because it certainly can’t blame its own politicized discussions during almost every major sporting event it has broadcast over the last few months.
A memo circulated on Thursday from Jimmy Pitaro, the head of ESPN, said the cuts will include 300 layoffs and the elimination of another 200 open positions. The company has 5,000 employees worldwide, according to the LA Times.
The memo said: “Prior to the pandemic, we had been deeply engaged in strategizing how best to position ESPN for future success amidst tremendous disruption in how fans consume sports. The pandemic’s significant impact on our business clearly accelerated those forward-looking discussions.”
Since the leagues have decided to “get woke”, embracing the political “Black Lives Matter” messaging before coming back on the air, they have seen their ratings plunge.
The cuts come right after ESPN’s parent company, Disney, also announced a sweeping round of more than 25,000 job cuts days ago. Recall, back in early October we reported that the network was planning “sweeping layoffs”. We noted then that the network was trying to cut “tens of millions” in salary.
Days prior to that, we pointed out that amidst a ratings plunge, the NBA is likely going to be pulling its BLM messaging from its courts and jerseys next season.
Here is the full text of the memo that went out to ESPN employees, per CNBC: ...
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Its working folks keep it up!
Meanwhile Barstool Sports is doing great. See Dave Portnoy on twitter.
Good. It is a time for a more serious populace.
We don’t need to be lulled to slaughter with “circuses”.
Professional sports should have kept its business on sports as well. NFL is dead to me. NBA is dead to me. NASCAR died, hung itself on a garage pull. ESPN has been dead to me for well over a year now.
College has been hurt with this woke crap as well. I grew up in Alabama and have been a Bama fan my entre life. In fact, my old high school football and golf coach was the backup QB to Ken Stabler at Alabama. With all the BS, woke leftist crap that is even infecting a formerly RED campus like Alabama, I could care less that Alabama is currently #1. There are lot more important things going on right now than WOKE college football.
Maybe Fox News will step in to buy ESPN. That would be fitting.
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