ESPN has lost 10 million subscribers since 2013.

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I got espn through slingtv, but they bout to lose another one after these nba playoffs is over :sas1:...but lets be real I'll come running back to espn during nfl season though :skip:
Why when they only show one game on mnf
 

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They need to realize people don't want bullshyt cable and start offering their service for $9.99 a month like Netflix.

Yeah as much as ESPN deserves to be shyt on, the bigger picture here is that cable is lookin like Larry Holmes, flabby and sick :flabbynsick:

If football decides to go over the top then it's a wrap, though I figure if they tried the Networks would have goons at Uncle Roger's door the next day, like "You know we can't let you do that :mjpls:"
 

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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
Yeah as much as ESPN deserves to be shyt on, the bigger picture here is that cable is lookin like Larry Holmes, flabby and sick :flabbynsick:

If football decides to go over the top then it's a wrap, though I figure if they tried the Networks would have goons at Uncle Roger's door the next day, like "You know we can't let you do that :mjpls:"



Pretty much, people in the 18-34 age range are abandoning cable.

Man fukk all that.

As someone who deals with a lot of viewing options, I can never fully embrace streaming. I stream things out of necessity not because it's the best option. I can barely tolerate my dish when it rains. Anything that presents the likelihood of lagging is not something I prefer.

Besides Cablevision rules with an iron fist and I got family that works there :yeshrug:

You don't know about all the wonders of streaming breh, I got rid of cable years ago and I :eat: entirely too well.
 

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How can espn lose subscribers when for the most part it's not a standalone service? I understand cable tiers and all, but why is the article pointed @ ESPN?
you can't just unsub to ESPN.

So that means everyone is losing subs in general. Not just ESPN.
I was wondering the same thing. You can't just unsub espn. People who don't watch sports are dropping cable...that's where the numbers are coming from.
 

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ESPN has been extorting cable companies for 20 years. They blacklist any provider that tries to go a la carte (letting consumers pay for just the channels they want), then they know no cable provider is stupid enough to take them off the table because too large a percentage of viewers aren't willing to give them up. I don't know what the figure is now, but I think at one time about $8 of your cable bill went to ESPN channels.

Young folks aren't willing to drop $100/mo for cable; they're the streaming generation.
 

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I used to live and die by ESPN during middle school and high school. Sportscenter, pre and post game shows, around the horn, pti, even the contest show they had to pick the next sports center anchor :heh: the last thing they got me on was first take but I've still been off of that for about five of six years.
 

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Well, when you place all your focus too much on the "E" in your name and not the "S" that the network was built on, you get this...










Seriously, I think people are just overloaded with their mess. I stopped "watching" ESPiN a long time ago. Outside of live sporting events, they don't get many, if any at all, views from me. I realized these talking heads pander, and are usually HUGE homers, I stopped listening. Outside of a few numbers they give you, it's pointless listening to it. They recycle the same stories all day, spit out pointless facts, and suck off the same athletes all the time. Like an example of all three...


"Lebron's numbers in last nights game were so doggone high, I thought he was gonna knock drake down from the top of the needle on the Views album cover...he's been "blazin son", lemme get my "stunna shades" out....his steal numbers against opponents in blue jerseys, with white trim, through this point in the season is the second highest only behind Harry "Gifted Hands" Thompson who was a star for the Dayton Druids before the ABA/NBA merger. Now put some respect on his name!"

Only watch during the fall sports, when it's mostly games. Most of the rest of the time is advertising or pitching you something thru commercial or thru their employees...
:russ: I could picture someone like Merrill hodge in that stupid accent saying some shyt like this
 

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Their sports talk radio shows are horrible.

There's this one show "Russillo and Kanell" and it's dog shyt. That Kanell dude is the most boring motherfukker on the planet, and Rusillo is a douche that thinks he's smarter than everyone, but neither of them really say anything at all.
 
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