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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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“Im getting closer to cutting the cord.”
Just do it ... I haven’t missed anything. I got Sling for a 14 day free trial to watch the Pirates lose their playoff game. That’s about the extent I’ve missed cable.
I’m looking hard at Sling also.
“I admit, the idea of having cable and 500 channels was appealing twenty years ago, but it’s just all garbage TV.”
We’re close too. I am tired of $100 per month DirecTV bills, and now that AT&T owns them, I am even less inclined to keep the service. We probably watch less than twenty channels in a given month, so the “500 channel” mantra is simply BS. You have 100 foreign language channels for which we have absolutely no interest. Then there are the multiple infomercial channels, ditto. And then there are the Kardashians, Sex sent me to the ER, and all that tripe. If they don’t come to offer a menu rather than packages soon, we’re gone! I am looking for $20 per month max.
I remember when there were only 57 channels with nothing on.
the surface high definition channels get better each year what they offer.
I remember having four channels as a kid. ABC,NBC,CBS and PBS. I also remember the shows being more family friendly. between Eight and nine it was something the entire family could watch. nine to ten it was aimed at the teen agers and at ten it was adult material but if a sleepy child wandered out of there room it was nothing to worry about. o
What a guy wants is: (1) a weather channel that is strictly local weather, a radar display, and three-day outlook. (2) a history channel that is history and not pretender lumberjacks or Amish mafia. (3) an old movie channel without any 10-minute introduction pieces. (4) a sports channel without some soap opera moderator pretending that there’s hype here or trying to giving you the inside-the-inside-the-inside view of things. (5) reality TV about real people, but not the fake reality stuff.
Haha. Crash and burn, ESPN.
Crash and burn. Haha.
like i said, the jenner thing did it for me.
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Liberalism never survives when people have a choice. That is why Liberals do not allow people a choice.
Sir dp0622. I consider it an honor to have you reply to one of my comments. I agree about Espn’s sad inclusion of Jenner.
“What I would really like is to be able to pick and choose which channels we want.”
What is their incentive if people keep paying for the bundle?
Likewise. Let them fall. We can laugh.
Amazon fire tv is pretty good. You can get apps to watch a lot of good free things, better than what is on regular tv lots of times. Sometimes with a lot less commercial interruption. Sometimes none.
Cox is going "all digital" or whatever they call it, supposedly already. For cable to work, a TV will have to have their box attached free for two years, then $2 a month each TV (until that goes up, too).
How nutty is that? People are already abandoning cable. And they're adding complexity and another fee? I'm giving up cable the very day the "basic" stations need that dang box. Timing it to make that statement....no more being force-fed stuff I don't want or need.
Check out YIP TV. It’s free and has a few sports channels.
ESPN is expected to refocus on promoting University of Michigan.
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