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sircumvent

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Bad business decisions + going to a far left political agenda = financial disaster.

It seems yall laid off the wrong people.
 
The layoffs had nothing to do with either thing. ESPN makes a large portion of their revenue from cable subscribers who were huge numbers until very recently. Now they aren't so the various channels have to adjust. It's not bad business at all, just a changing environment.
Their political positions certainly didn't play into anything. Nobody cares because sports people cover the whole spectrum.
 
Not to toot my own horn but a few years ago I said that SportsCenter was becoming too big and spending too much on all the anchors. Turns out it was one thing they cited as a needed change.
I should charge a consultants fee.
 
rocket_surgery said:
The layoffs had nothing to do with either thing. ESPN makes a large portion of their revenue from cable subscribers who were huge numbers until very recently. Now they aren't so the various channels have to adjust. It's not bad business at all, just a changing environment.
Their political positions certainly didn't play into anything. Nobody cares because sports people cover the whole spectrum.
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Of course not. Offending large blocks of your current or potential customers over things that have nothing to do with the entertainment you are delivering could not possibly come with any negative consequences.

At a time when you're having to adjust the shifting market conditions, that's probably the very best time to engage in unwelcome social experiments.
 
rocket_surgery said:
The layoffs had nothing to do with either thing. ESPN makes a large portion of their revenue from cable subscribers who were huge numbers until very recently. Now they aren't so the various channels have to adjust. It's not bad business at all, just a changing environment.
Their political positions certainly didn't play into anything. Nobody cares because sports people cover the whole spectrum.
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The number of people who think ESPN is being punished for its alleged politics reminds me of everyone who thought the Patriots winning the Super Bowl was some sort of vindication for Donald Trump.

I don't think they've helped themselves by getting rid of actual reporters, most of whom I assume are paid relatively modestly, and keeping the arguers, who no doubt have the biggest salaries.
 
Conager said:
Of course not. Offending large blocks of your current or potential customers over things that have nothing to do with the entertainment you are delivering could not possibly come with any negative consequences.

At a time when you're having to adjust the shifting market conditions, that's probably the very best time to engage in unwelcome social experiments.
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In most cases you can't just drop ESPN, it's a basic cable channel. No matter their politics you'd still get them and they'd get paid. It's about cable subscribers and little else and nobody is dropping their cable just because Hannah Storm doesn't like Trump.
Even most right wing articles are blaming the declining cable numbers and saying that if politics played a role it was minor.
 
rocket_surgery said:
In most cases you can't just drop ESPN, it's a basic cable channel. No matter their politics you'd still get them and they'd get paid. It's about cable subscribers and little else and nobody is dropping their cable just because Hannah Storm doesn't like Trump.
Even most right wing articles are blaming the declining cable numbers and saying that if politics played a role it was minor.
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You're assuming that the cable companies did not have subscribers who were avid sports fans and conservatives who were primarily subscribing to cable to get ESPN.

Live sports, if you control distribution, is one so very few entertainment options that could not just be as easily replaced by a Netflix style platform.
 
plus. there are other sports besides the nfl and nba. they used to cover everything from australian rules football to water polo.
 
sircumvent said:
Bad business decisions + going to a far left political agenda = financial disaster.

It seems yall laid off the wrong people.
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Holy shit! You folk can't separate your partisanship politics from sports. Maybe you should decide your elections by football game.

Went to Michigan a few years back. Was during the playoffs and we could not get a single hockey game on US cable TV. During the playoffs! You're all a bunch of bloody savages! That what you are. Savages!
 
None of us really know for sure if ESPN's foray into liberal politics hurt their numbers, but it damn sure didn't help. These days people are just looking for a reason to pull the plug on cable. It won't be too long before cable TV is surpassed by other less expensive technology.
 
Wait.

Now I'm confused.

They started to the left and I think he is referencing some right-leaning commentors let go for off air remarks?

This thread needs background.
 
I have ESPN in my satellite package.

:cool:

I have yet to find anything much worth watching on ESPN. That is probably their real problem. I have more of a problem with the NFL and politics. When they went with breast cancer, #BlackLiversMatter and #NoTributesToCops, I turned them off in a heartbeat.

ESPN should have invested heavily in MMA like MAVTV and FS1...
 
Hard_Rom said:
Holy shit! You folk can't separate your partisanship politics from sports. Maybe you should decide your elections by football game.

Went to Michigan a few years back. Was during the playoffs and we could not get a single hockey game on US cable TV. During the playoffs! You're all a bunch of bloody savages! That what you are. Savages!
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I don't think you looked very hard if you couldn't find the NHL playoffs on tv in the US and especially in MI.
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
When they went with breast cancer, #BlackLiversMatter and #NoTributesToCops, I turned them off in a heartbeat.
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Well obviously you didn't because they were doing breast cancer awareness years before the others existed and black lives matter was at least a year before the thing with that asshole.
And why would anyone have a problem with the breast cancer campaign? Do the pink shoes really bother you that much?
 
water505 said:
None of us really know for sure if ESPN's foray into liberal politics hurt their numbers, but it damn sure didn't help. These days people are just looking for a reason to pull the plug on cable. It won't be too long before cable TV is surpassed by other less expensive technology.
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Won't be long? You living in 2005?
 
rocket_surgery said:
Well obviously you didn't because they were doing breast cancer awareness years before the others existed and black lives matter was at least a year before the thing with that asshole.
And why would anyone have a problem with the breast cancer campaign? Do the pink shoes really bother you that much?
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It's more that the uppity cunts stand up for themselves and the health of others.
 
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