Disney demanding major costs cuts at ESPN

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

can't really be mad at that, that's ESPN trying to be too inclusive, americans don't care about that shyt....and because they don't care, it doesn't make sense to invest in talent that knows those topics, even if just temporarily. should those sports grow more in the US, they'll get talking head who know how to break it down.

i agree with you on 1 and 4

Why don't you want a place for 24/hr sports

 

[MenacingMonk]

Who is bigger star than him at ESPN?

Mike and Mike

Dude is wack.

 

[USSInsiders]

ESPN is looking at FoxNews and wondering how to increase viewership. Eventually they will come to the conclusion that they should cater to the lowest common denominator and it will be more about reinforcing the views and satisfying the desires of those kinds of people instead of doing what they should be doing, which is reporting on fukking sports.

Thus more disposable crap like First Take and that idiot Beadle and less 30 for 30 shyt or shyt that actually has to do with what is going on on the field/court/pitch

Yeah I don't get why people are cheering this shyt. All of the shytty shows are going to stay, this just means more layoffs for the guys behind the scenes and the little people

 

[superunknown23]

WE DID IT BREHS!!! Fucc ESPN. I knew my personal boycott made a difference

Bruh, I haven't watched ESPN in ages... Maybe the odd NBA/NFL live game. And I was a major viewer from 1992 to around 2005.
shyt is almost mirrors my MTV experience (stopped watching that shyt around 2000 too)

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

ya and it's gonna run more people away over time, they're in a vicious cycle where as TNT may have high peaks and low valleys they put out better content sports wise that is slowly making them the better alternative with NBA coverage.

slowly making them a better alternative?

TNT ALWAYS chitted on espn when it comes to the nba.

if anything, espn is the alternative trying to get its nba weight up. turner been running this here breh.

 

[Skooby]

According to this site, Chris Berman and Mike Tirico both make 3 mil per: http://www.totalsportek.com/money/highest-paid-sportscaster-analyst-commentators/

Here it says Stephen A. Smith makes between 3.1 and 3.5: http://awfulannouncing.com/the-locker/stephen-smith-makes-average-nfl-player.html

Bill Simmons was making 5 mil: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/is-espn-becoming-a-drain-on-disneys-bottom-line.html

Mark Schlereth's deal got cut down: http://thebiglead.com/2015/06/24/disney-espn-cost-cutting-john-skipper/

 

[Hahahaha]

You cant's save 300 million with employee cuts. They need to close down the multiple studios, limit live programming, not renew any upcoming contracts they might have outside of Nascar/NBA/NFL, etc.

 

[GhostoftheMan]

slowly making them a better alternative?

TNT ALWAYS chitted on espn when it comes to the nba.

if anything, espn is the alternative trying to get its nba weight up. turner been running this here breh.

they've always made the better content but espn was the network that people went to to see sports by default but now that espn has been fukking up there are more options, not TNT when it comes to nba coverage. this is for football and other sports, espn has been the default but now other channels and the internet are swiping up their viewers

 

[satam55]

Who is bigger star than him at ESPN?

Mike and Mike

Dude is wack.

Nope.

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

Real talk, if ESPN didn't have a contract with the NBA I'd never watch that channel.. They have some of the worst sports personalities on all of television

WIndhorst
JD Adande
Wilbon
SAS
Bayless
Britt McHenry
Everyone on Around the Horn

 

[RammerJammer]

Keep College Football Live on Hiatus Brehs

OTL getting shown instead

With these cuts, will Gameday be broadcast from the studio like the early 90s?

 

[King Jove]

death to BSPN

keep c00ns like SAS and racist like beadle around and see your black fanbase diminish

does bspn really need all these "analyst"?

does bspn really need a bajillion daily shows to cover the same sports news over and over and over from different "personalities"?

does bspn really need 1-2 hr nfl shows back to back to cover the same nfl news?

the only entertaining show on that network is highly questionable

nbatv does a better job covering the nba. woj reports like 99% of nba news. nfl network does a better job covering the nfl. bspn doesn't even TRY to really cover soccer and bein sports has dominated that market..

between thecoli, twitter, websites like grantland, and youtube, ESPN is just obsolete in 2015.

only reason to watch that network is for live games in HD and they're lucky streams are still sketchy.

ESPN

 

[MenacingMonk]

Nope.

SAS. Got his own commercial OUTSIDE of ESPN.

Can't believe I forgot about him.

 

[RammerJammer]

They treat the nba like a jabroni league do they even have a nightly nba show its sad we can get 2 hours of nfl circlejerk sshows but nothing as far as nba

NBATV blows ESPN NBA coverage out the water

 

[Shogun]

They should just shyt-can some of the networks.
shyt, they got:
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN3
ESPN News
ESPN Classic
ESPN Deportes
ESPN U
ESPN SEC
Longhorn Network