to Disney. Keep swinging to the left espn and middle America will leave you blaming the Russians as well. That network is in serious trouble--they have nothing to offer.
Espn is like a big sinking anchor
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I really don't understand why anyone watches espn for anything other than games. If you want to watch sport shows of any sport, you can watch....NFL Network, MLB network, NBATV, Golf Channel, Tennis Network, NHL channel. Espn is not needed other than live games.
Has nothing to do with right or left and everything to do with the proliferation of internet based TV and a la-carte cable packages. People have been paying for channels they don't use because they had no other choice. With cord-cutting, the consumer is taking control. It's affecting every cable outlet, but specially sports channels because they used to be forced on all cables packages, not anymore.
They lost me as a fan a long time ago. It started with Olbermann and kept going with Dan Patrick, his side kick and others. To be honest, it wasn't so much their political views as it was their propensity to interject or imply them all the time. Some good folks used to be up there.
But I will admit, for about 10 years, they had the best damn commercials.
But I will admit, for about 10 years, they had the best damn commercials.
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Yep, this is the hot ticket item. If you actually looked at an itemized breakdown of your cable bill, the total amount is relatively reflective of how much each channel is charging the cable company to broadcast. ESPN has historically been one of the highest chargers because of its control over the live sports market and sports talk shows in general. Now that CBS, FOX, etc. have launched their own sports tv brands an each professional league has its own game provider, ESPN has become less of a power when it comes to market share. Couple that with their production decisions being based largely around big market teams or flavor of the month teams (i.e. Dallas Cowboys, Golden State Warriors, etc.), ESPN has lost a lot of its attractiveness to both the consumer and to the cable company.
The route I would love to see cable companies go is to allow consumers to custom build their channel packages and charge based on that. It will never happen but that would make life for us so much easier.
Whether you like his political views or not, its hard not to like Olberman as a baseball guy. The man knows his stuff.
NBA pregame show on TNT is the best anchored show out and it's not even close
lol man those guys get after each other, it's funny watching shaqtin a fool too and Shaq and Charles Barkley just go at each other it's too funny Joe.
The ESPY to the She Male ,the leftist articles on their website did it for me. I switched to Fox's website and haven't lost a step.
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Cane1983- First of all, don't take this as a criticism of you. It is not. You are an excellent poster and I enjoy your contributions here. But I don't find him hard not to like at all. Keith Olberman was the one who brought snark to sportscasting. I don't enjoy snark of any kind, whether from the political right (Greg Gutfeld) or the left (Rachel Maddow) or whether it is on ESPN or SNL.
I am a big fan of comedy, especially stand-up comedy. But I get turned off by this "wink-at-the-camera" snide sarcasm as if "we're all in this together" when the fact is that I do not like the fact that you are making fun of someone who is not in the same room as you, you freakin' coward! So easy to ridicule when you are in a studio. This type of snark implies a feeling of mental superiority between the snarky talking head and the audience when the fact is that many in the audience do not agree.
Chris Berman, Kenny Mayne, Scott Van Pelt, and John Anderson have brought humor to ESPN without belittling anyone. Meanwhile, Keith Olberman brought snark. And he infected guys like Max Kellerman who is now unwatchable. I haven't watched ESPN, except for games, in about ten years, and I don't miss it. And I don't miss Olberman.
By the way, ESPN's ratings are in the tank. Unless they are televising a big game with national appeal, they are barely in the top ten of cable channels, and they used to be at the top. Now, they are beaten out in viewers by, are you ready for this: The Home and Garden Network, as well as a channel called "Investigative Discovery." I thought that was something law firms do before they file a lawsuit, not the name of a cable TV channel. Whoever they are, last month they beat out ESPN in viewers.
By the way, could these ratings (and declining ad revenues) have anything to do with Chris Berman being pushed aside when his contact is up in a few months?
By the way, could these ratings (and declining ad revenues) have anything to do with Chris Berman being pushed aside when his contact is up in a few months?
Hard not to like Olberman?? It's beyond me how anyone CAN like him.
I'd have to think long and hard before I found a male sporstcaster I like less than that pompous blowhard.
I'd have to think long and hard before I found a male sporstcaster I like less than that pompous blowhard.
espn tanking is not good news, the money they pay the ACC for broadcasting rights is what is helping fuel the growth of the conference
and for the gun grabbers I believe they did an "Outside the lines" episode on gun violence. I also switched to Fox.
I can understand that viewpoint but his baseball knowledge is second to none. He's also a different kind of personality than the standard ESPN type. I certainly can see why people don't like him (just look at how often he is out of a job) but I used to find his take on sports very refreshing.
900+ political seats lost in the last 8 years at both state and federal level... Glad liberals think all is warm and fuzzy in la-la liberal land. F**king Vermont just put in a Republican Governor in Socialist Bernie Sanders' state.
Chuckie Schumer is a clown and is going to send Senate Democrats in Red States to the political guilotine come midterm elections. Lunatic liberal Elizabeth Warren has horrendously low poll numbers in a deep blue Massachusetts state and may be unseated by Curt Schilling- the rock solid conservative who ESPN fired for his political views.
America is tired of flaming far left coastal liberalism and its continued intolerance, ignorance, and incompetence. ESPN masquerades like a sports network when substantively it has become a bastion of liberal circle jerking, pandering to the very coastal far left liberal audience that the rest of America loathes for its lunatic liberal ideologies.
They are only relevant from late August to December and maybe College world series whrn Miami is in it.
What's this espn you keep talking about? Exactly.
nbc,abc,cnn,cbs & espn all die hard liberals.
4210, I've heard guys that know him well say that he's a real pain in the ass. A cancer in the locker room, if you will, whether he's talking sports or politics.
The left is anti American , back from the days they were spitting on our troops coming home from Veitman. They have so much hate , but deflect with saying other parties have hate. They should honestly be exiled.
For accuracy (and people that might want to watch it instead of ESPN), it is "Investigation Discovery." They tend to run old episodes of Dateline and 48 Hours involving murders both of which are more enjoyable than most ESPN shows. Forensic Files has much more analysis than Sport Center has had in 20 years when it used to be a sports show and not TMZ with sports characters.
I'm sure the declining revenues have a lot to do with pushing out Chris Berman and other high priced talent.
Spot on...all of this!
I used to watch Sportscenter every night...no more.
Olberman is an embarrassment. He is as pompous a person as there ever has been. What happened to humility?
Dick Vitale, Chris Berman, just not good anymore.
Also, the 6 PM show they ran ads for over the Super Bowl weekend...it takes two to make things go right...a sports show where the talent is dancing and singing...very very far from...
ROY FIRESTONE...Miss him
I used to watch Sportscenter every night...no more.
Olberman is an embarrassment. He is as pompous a person as there ever has been. What happened to humility?
Dick Vitale, Chris Berman, just not good anymore.
Also, the 6 PM show they ran ads for over the Super Bowl weekend...it takes two to make things go right...a sports show where the talent is dancing and singing...very very far from...
ROY FIRESTONE...Miss him
Their shows just suck. That's all there is to it. 30 for 30 is pretty good from time to time. Game day is always fun. That's it. You'd think they'd have higher standards but they clearly just don't care anymore.
Do you really think it's just subscribers? I still have espn and I know why my tv won't see espn unless I'm watching game.
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