Disney demanding major costs cuts at ESPN

[The ADD]

Overextend your business brehs

*watches softball on the SEC Network*

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Bill Simmons considered ESPN's biggest star?

He probably was. I think he has an absurd amount of followers on Twitter. I don't fukk with his TV content, he sucked doing the NBA but I did fukk with Grantland and the 30/30 docs.

I haven't watched anything on ESPN besides live games in YEARS.

 

[ALonelyDad]

Get rid of


Broussard
Beadle
Whitlock

 

[superunknown23]

Get rid of


Broussard
Beadle
Whitlock

More importantly, get rid of professional trolls posing as journalists

 

[lotteryplaya]

Get rid of


Broussard
Beadle
Whitlock

Mickey has a lot of cuts to make. 250 million is a lot of money to trim..

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

what?

You agreed with that other poster who said having a 24 sports news business model was dumb. Maybe I read it the wrong way

 

[MIAlien]

Damn, so that new, huge NBA deal created a lot of this pressure Disney is putting on ESPN.

That means the NBA & Adam Silver got a bunch of ESPN personalities & sports media people fired.

They took money out of the whiny, entitled, gasbag CAC sport media's hands and put it right in the athlete's hands instead....

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

I just want Lebatard...All that other crap can go away.

 

[Tide Run This]

Time to trim a little more fat big mang trim a little more fat

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

You agreed with that other poster who said having a 24 sports news business model was dumb. Maybe I read it the wrong way

guess i was thinking moreso about the way their lineup is reacting to sports news and/or reporting sports news 24/7...it becomes redundant, you run topics into the ground, plus the twitter/the internet gets things out much faster and you can engage ad nauseum on topics in real time, ESPN should spend more time on programs that don't focus on today's news cycle IMO - more docs, original programs, behind the scenes, bios, etc

 

[RammerJammer]

sec network was a waste of money, espn and espnu were already that...plus what does sec network have to offer outside of CFB.

Well, I dont have to pay for PPV games thanks to the SEC network

 

[Black Magisterialness]

what does what ESPN airs over here have to do with india? and india got 1 billion poor ass mothafukkas with no damn cable subscriptions, again, what incentive do they have to hire/contract talent that can get it right when they can just make due with their normal crew?

i can get folks nit picking soccer, even tho if you're realistic you'll give it a pass, but cricket? in a country full of names half the inhabitants cant pronounce? nah

yes, I can because these fukkers went to school and in J-School they teach your ass how to write for broadcast which includes phonetic pronunciations...either ESPN has the worst prompter writers in history, or their anchors can't read...either way is an egregious error.

 

[Trip]

Lol no

Most ESPN personalities that you've heard of make more than that

Who? Since Simmons is gone he's the biggest name they have. Other than him maybe Bayless but...

 

[dtownreppin214]

@dtownreppin214 You think LHN will be on the choppin' block?






I will if SEC Network also ends up there.

I doubt it, they'd still owe us the money from the contract.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

well they started fukking up by stop doing SPORTS CENTURY... i agree with repeat of the same sportscenter for like 6 straight hours..

and then why show highlights of game when u already give up who won by having it listed on the left side of the screen..

they invested to much into that state of the art studio and campus and not enough in the right programming

Sportscentury was piff


ESPN classic was that shyt

Sportsnation is a dumb ass show get that shyt outta here

Get rid of all the damn sportscenters like duke said that run run all damn day..

Do more docs like 30 for 30

Also what killed them was losing NFL primetime highlights to NBC Football Night in America..

Nothing can replicate Boomer and Tom Jackson..

Losing that shyt was a killer