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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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To: Enterprise

Having cut the cord three years ago, I’m glad to have played my small part in this.

ESPN is the worst thing that ever happened to sports.


61 posted on 10/21/2015 3:51:21 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Enterprise

Not to wish anything bad on anyone but I wouldnt be sad to see every ESPN employee lose their job, have their homes foreclosed and have their children sold to mussie slavers......


62 posted on 10/21/2015 3:58:36 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Enterprise

Looks like cable has become so yesterday. The internet has pretty much has taken over.


63 posted on 10/21/2015 4:02:36 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Enterprise

I go to ESPN in order to see score updates and NFL standings. Perhaps 2 or 3 clicks a week for the duration of the NFL season.

I do not know what channel they are on my TV lineup.


64 posted on 10/21/2015 4:08:15 AM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: dp0622

ESPN has turned into a queer promoting, Muslim loving, pack of degenerates. I love it when boycotts prove their worth.


65 posted on 10/21/2015 4:17:17 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: grania

I hear you.


66 posted on 10/21/2015 4:18:21 AM PDT by umgud (v)
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To: Slyfox

ME-TV, TCM, and BBCA. I can get ME over the air and could make it without the other two but I like to keep up on Doctor Who.

My wife is the one who keeps the sports tuned in all the time. But she pays the cable bill. I try to be elsewhere during stupid sports is on. I don’t go to ballgames, and I tune out sports imams on the radio.


67 posted on 10/21/2015 5:24:45 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Pining_4_TX

You’re not my wife by chance?

I couldn’t resist the lame attempt at humor. Forgive me but your post sounds like my home life.


68 posted on 10/21/2015 5:33:55 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: cherry

I’ve started calling them “sports imams”. I think it’s funny. My wife doesn’t.


69 posted on 10/21/2015 5:35:52 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Moonman62

One per state.


70 posted on 10/21/2015 5:37:48 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert; All
Interesting article about how MLB has NO games this year on free TV, and its implications. But scroll down to the 4-6 paragraphs to read how millenials...the NEXT generation of viewers..are completely cutting the cord....
71 posted on 10/21/2015 6:20:06 AM PDT by ken5050 (Jim DeMint for Speaker)
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To: Grampa Dave

ESPN was left wing before it was “cool”


72 posted on 10/21/2015 8:28:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ripnbang

ESPN should have been told by the parent company to knock off the political stunts as soon as it started. Ya get stupid, ya lose viewers.


73 posted on 10/21/2015 8:29:35 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: GoldnGate

Boomer would be a good place to start. Can’t stand him. Come on ESPN, you can do it. You could go all the way!


74 posted on 10/21/2015 8:31:06 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: dp0622

Is there some way I can still get their football, If I drop them?

Other than that, I have no desire at all to be a subscriber to the boys in pink.


75 posted on 10/21/2015 8:34:36 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: Cyman

The twits at ESPN were joyful at the inauguration of Obama. Half of their fans, if not more, reacted with revulsion, and still feel that way. Bad move on ESPN’s part.


76 posted on 10/21/2015 8:36:12 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: ken5050
"how millenials...the NEXT generation of viewers..are completely cutting the cord...."

My daughter and her three room mates at college have no cable yet watch all the TV programs they love via the internet.

Cable/DirecTV(Sat TV) have no bearing on their lives whatsoever. It is just not on their radar for any reason. They are Youtube and Netflix and Hulu And Amazon etc. watchers.

Unless something drastic changes in the next 5 years or so most FReepers will live to see the end of cable/sat TV as we know it.

77 posted on 10/21/2015 8:44:36 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Falconspeed

I also have trouble finding which game is on which channel, especially College football. If you go to ESPN online, , they erase which network it’s on as soon as the game starts (Unless it’s on ESPN’s family) . Maybe the official NCAA site would be better for checking scores,

The other problem is that if you want to watch the end of a game and they have gone over their scheduled time slot, its listing is no longer available on the channel guide, so you have to go one-by-one through the channels and hope you stumble across it before the grand finale.This is especially bad now because almost all the games are loaded bumper-to-bumper, so the game on channel X is now on channel Y, until the other game is over, after which it will be on channel X beginning from the end of the 1st period, so the DVR is now totally confused.


78 posted on 10/21/2015 8:50:32 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: Falconspeed

You are so right about can’t watch baseball because the guys in charge of scheduling can’t figure out how to communicate to the world.


79 posted on 10/21/2015 8:52:44 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: cookcounty

“Is there some way I can still get their football, If I drop them?”

Look up in the British SKY if you want SPORTS.


80 posted on 10/21/2015 10:47:34 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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