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Bundled Cable Deathwatch: ESPN To Cut 350 Jobs
breitbart.com ^ | 20 Oct 2015 | John Nolte

Posted on 10/20/2015 9:32:53 PM PDT by Enterprise

According to Bloomberg, the increasingly left-wing ESPN sports network has been forced to cut 350 jobs due directly to subscriber losses, which is also known as cord cutting. Early estimates were between 200 and 300 job cuts after parent company Disney ordered ESPN to cut $100 million from its 2016 budget.

In just over a year, as customers cut their cable cords and move to streaming television services like Netflix, as of August, ESPN had lost a whopping 3.2 million subscribers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: earnings; espn; losers; ratings; sports
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1 posted on 10/20/2015 9:32:54 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

Gee, that’s too bad. Didn’t they give some freak a courage award over a gal who played college basketball with cancer until she died?

ESPN going under? well, bye.


2 posted on 10/20/2015 9:34:28 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Enterprise; stephenjohnbanker

“Early estimates were between 200 and 300 job cuts after parent company Disney ordered ESPN to cut $100 million from its 2016 budget.”


3 posted on 10/20/2015 9:34:55 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: Enterprise

I’m getting closer to cutting the cord.


4 posted on 10/20/2015 9:35:31 PM PDT by umgud (v)
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To: Enterprise

I haven’t had cable for almost ten years. There are only 3 cable stations that I watched when I did watch it.


5 posted on 10/20/2015 9:41:13 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: dp0622

They are so biased against anything east of the Mississippi as to be worthless.


6 posted on 10/20/2015 9:41:34 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: dp0622

Nah, they should have wall to wall coverage of Michael sam like before to increase ratings s/


7 posted on 10/20/2015 9:41:48 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Enterprise

I hope those two losers on his and hers get the ax


8 posted on 10/20/2015 9:46:06 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: umgud

I’ll make the prediction that within the next decade...half the nation settles in for Netflix and an antenna on the roof for their four or five local stations. I admit, the idea of having cable and 500 channels was appealing twenty years ago, but it’s just all garbage TV.


9 posted on 10/20/2015 9:46:21 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 100American

yep


10 posted on 10/20/2015 9:47:00 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622
Especially Stupid Pathetic Network.

I think they gave an award to Jenner or some such person. It was ignorant.

11 posted on 10/20/2015 9:47:24 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: umgud
DirecTV's NFL Sunday ticket has done got a hold on me, and I will never be free. Wrote a song about it. Wanta hear it?


12 posted on 10/20/2015 9:47:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: max americana

He had the NERVE to compare himself to Tebow because he got some announcer gig. Friggin fruit. And an Italian boyfriend. I had to hang my head in shame for weeks.

What has Manning done for Denver. I dont see a ring.

Yeah, i know he’s a better QB and Tebow takes too long to read the defense, but what if he had a few years full time in Denver?

oh well.


13 posted on 10/20/2015 9:48:51 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Ditto.


14 posted on 10/20/2015 9:48:54 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Great title lol.

They did. Over a gal with cancer and an amputee soldier, both involved in sports, until the incredibly brave gal died from brain cancer.

Told fiance DO NOT have ESPN on in this house. Ever.

I think she sneaks when they have Thursday night games.

I REALLY thought jenner was gonna say give it to one of the others.

Instead he said “what the hell am i going to wear”.

That was worse than being a freak.


15 posted on 10/20/2015 9:52:59 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: sparklite2
Wrote a song about it. Wanta hear it?

Uh, no.

16 posted on 10/20/2015 9:53:37 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: umgud

We cut ours a year ago. Grandsons complained and I really missed some of the channels. So I put a big note on the front of the refrigerator and every month put up the dollar total of the money we had saved thus far. We have all survived.


17 posted on 10/20/2015 9:54:54 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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ESPN is a Disney property.


18 posted on 10/20/2015 9:55:01 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: dp0622

God bless Tebow, really, but he’s just never going to amount to much in the NFL. He’s just not good enough.


19 posted on 10/20/2015 9:55:29 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: umgud

We would love to boot our cable, but my husband likes documentaries on various channels, and I can’t give up live sports. Netflix just won’t work for me. What I would really like is to be able to pick and choose which channels we want. I’m tired of paying for the homosexual channel, the green channel, etc.


20 posted on 10/20/2015 9:59:13 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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