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Actually, it has everything to do with left-wing SJW politics, you snowflake libtard.
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Well apparently the cuts have nothing to do with all the giant contracts ESPN signed for the right to air College football, NFL, MLB, NBA, tennis, etc...
It was race all along.
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Well apparently the cuts have nothing to do with all the giant contracts ESPN signed for the right to air College football, NFL, MLB, NBA, tennis, etc...
It was race all along.
Those giant contracts wouldn't hurt so bad if the ratings were not down and people actually still paid for subscriptions.
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That's the whole fucking point. Have you not been paying attention???
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If that $8B was $4B I'll bet there are no layoffs. The network executives fucked up and spent too much on airing rights, declining ratings never help, but not $8B worth of pain. It sure as hell has nothing to do with a few weeping pussies that can't handle the opinions of certain black people.
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And why do you think ratings are down other than cord cutters which effects everyone?
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Middle America wants to pop open a beer and listen to sports talk; they don't want to be lectured about why Caitlyn Jenner is a hero, why Michael Sam is the new Jackie Robinson of sports, and why Colin Kaepernick is the next Rosa Parks.
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It all started when a tranny got a courage award
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So they need a safe space?
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Probably because things like PTI, First Take, Around the Horn, whatever, are just not good programming. That is regardless of whatever perceived bias viewers may think they have.
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Jenner was a ridicules PC lame ass move. The other two, WTF? No one ever said anything like that, ever.
It's actually pretty funny that some guys are still trying to figure out the ESPN layoffs. Hint $8B.
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ESPN can't compete when there are niche channels for each sport. If I want MLB news, I go to MLB Network. If I want NFL news, I go to NFL Network. I don't have to sit through golf highlights to see what I want anymore.
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If I want Lebron talk, I tune in to ESPN tho
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This is amazing to me, am I to expect that if First Take did no topics that revolved around politics that it would be highly rated??
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highly doubt it. Most men are at work and not home watching tv in the morning. Also, even if I were home, I just can't stand Stephen A screaming. Can't make an argument without screaming. Has nothing to do with liberal politics or anything like that
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That's my point. Stephen A sucks. He shouldn't be on television at all, and that's regardless of his politics.
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I stopped watching ESPN when they went all in on the Skip Bayless/Stephen A Smith vacuous shoutathons.
Give me Zack Lowe and Bill Barnwell and I'll watch. Give me old school SportsCenter that was actually fun to watch, and I'll pay for a subscription.
ESPN looked at garbage local sports radio and turned that braindead, aggro bullshit into their entire line up. Give me ESPN programming that hearkens back to the Stu Scott/Kenny Mayne/Steve Levy/Rich Eisen/Keith Olberman SportsCenter days and I'm in.
Give me Zack Lowe and Bill Barnwell and I'll watch. Give me old school SportsCenter that was actually fun to watch, and I'll pay for a subscription.
ESPN looked at garbage local sports radio and turned that braindead, aggro bullshit into their entire line up. Give me ESPN programming that hearkens back to the Stu Scott/Kenny Mayne/Steve Levy/Rich Eisen/Keith Olberman SportsCenter days and I'm in.
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Stephen A. Smith absolutely murders the English language pretty much every time I hear him and no one ever calls him on it. Uses random big words incorrectly all the time.
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Disney purchased ESPN and has taken a bottom line approach, structuring massive layoff quota's for them that began last year and will continue for a couple more.
COMCAST is trying to suck the life out of poor america before they probably file bankruptcy and take billions off into the sunset for upper management. With everyone switching to digital, ESPN has to trim the fat and become less of a Titanic in a more competive media market open to little guys.
COMCAST is trying to suck the life out of poor america before they probably file bankruptcy and take billions off into the sunset for upper management. With everyone switching to digital, ESPN has to trim the fat and become less of a Titanic in a more competive media market open to little guys.
