Where's ESPN's late night talk show at?

[dora_da_destroyer]

You clearly haven’t watched ESPNEWS in a long time.


Companies who hemorrhage money

I have, and I know that if they want to focus on news, they have the property to do so. Speaking of which that’s why I say they shouldn’t care about money, producing a show will not break them anywhere near the rate they’re being broken at by sustaining 3-4 tv properties that overlap content and are attracting fewer viewers. I’m not going into this as I know I’ve had this exact argument with you before, in 2018 ESPN does not need 4 channels (not even counting their online offerings and SEC network)

 

[tremonthustler1]

I have, and I know that if they want to focus on news, they have the property to do so. Speaking of which that’s why I say they shouldn’t care about money, producing a show will not break them anywhere near the rate they’re being broken at by sustaining 3-4 tv properties that overlap content and are attracting fewer viewers. I’m not going into this as I know I’ve had this exact argument with you before, in 2018 ESPN does not need 4 channels (not even counting their online offerings and SEC network)

So a talk show that you’ll lose track of because you won’t know when it comes on is gonna save things?

Every year we watch the ESPY’s and cringe at the jokes, but now you want that five nights a week? There’s a reason why FS1 and NBCSN wouldn’t try this themselves and they NEED content.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

So a talk show that you’ll lose track of because you won’t know when it comes on is gonna save things?

Every year we watch the ESPY’s and cringe at the jokes, but now you want that five nights a week? There’s a reason why FS1 and NBCSN wouldn’t try this themselves and they NEED content.

You don’t have to lose track of it. There aren’t that many games on ESPN bleeding into all weird times of the night, furthermore they kick post game coverage over to ESPN 2 all the time, play the show after the sport. It’s late night...well out east, it ain’t gonna do numbers no way, it’s the equivalent of a late late show or all the guys who have shows at the 12am spot.

Fs1 and nbcsn haven’t done it because ESPN hasn’t, neither one has shown the fortitude to think of their own content/format.

And lol @ using the espy’s as a barometer. People have the same complaints about every awards show (Grammys, ama’s, oscars. Emmys) yet the late night shows on those networks are well received and play well for their viewers. What are you even arguing at this point...

 

[KneeGrow.]

They tried with Jay Mohr and nobody watched.

 

[tremonthustler1]

You don’t have to lose track of it. There aren’t that many games on ESPN bleeding into all weird times of the night, furthermore they kick post game coverage over to ESPN 2 all the time, play the show after the sport. It’s late night...well out east, it ain’t gonna do numbers no way, it’s the equivalent of a late late show or all the guys who have shows at the 12am spot.

If it happens at all it’s a problem. That’s why you don’t see late night talk shows compromised by the programming that precede it very much. If people didn’t know what time The Tonight Show came on, people would stop watching it altogether (this is a big reason why Arsenio Hall got deaded the first time despite being a cultural phenomenon)

Fs1 and nbcsn haven’t done it because ESPN hasn’t, neither one has shown the fortitude to think of their own content/format.

Remember “The Crossover” on NBCSN that Michelle Beadle hosted and flopped?

And lol @ using the espy’s as a barometer. People have the same complaints about every awards show (Grammys, ama’s, oscars. Emmys) yet the late night shows on those networks are well received and play well for their viewers. What are you even arguing at this point...

Late night shows draw from everything in entertainment, including sports. You want ESPN to have a late night talk show drawing on just sports fukkery from the day before. Eventually that shyt is gonna run dry. To try to go outside of the sports realm is essentially trying to compete (in ABC’s mind at least) with Kimmel.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

If it happens at all it’s a problem. That’s why you don’t see late night talk shows compromised by the programming that precede it very much. If people didn’t know what time The Tonight Show came on, people would stop watching it altogether (this is a big reason why Arsenio Hall got deaded the first time despite being a cultural phenomenon)



Remember “The Crossover” on NBCSN that Michelle Beadle hosted and flopped?





Late night shows draw from everything in entertainment, including sports. You want ESPN to have a late night talk show drawing on just sports fukkery from the day before. Eventually that shyt is gonna run dry. To try to go outside of the sports realm is essentially trying to compete (in ABC’s mind at least) with Kimmel.

It’s not a problem...do you think sports fans, the people watching, are too dense to understand the show will air when a game is over, otherwise it’s on at xx-o’clock? That’s like acting like people don’t know what time inside the nba will come on, it comes on after the god damn game goes off


No I don’t remember Beadle show because I don’t watch nbcsn, also, given net wide opinion of her, she herself may have been the issue.


To everything else you said between this thread and the baseball one, you seem to have no ability to think outside the box or beyond the status quo that you know and become accustomed to.

 

[mozichrome]

Great them creating another show I would not care to watch


But seriously why do they need this

Maybe just me but I never got into watching any of those late nite shows
Never really cared for the interviews

 

[10bandz]

all i know is that the first 3 or 4 years of the Best Damn Sports Show Period was fukking amaaaazing

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Great them creating another show I would not care to watch


But seriously why do they need this

Maybe just me but I never got into watching any of those late nite shows
Never really cared for the interviews

So if you don’t like late night shows why even chime in...clearly you’re not the demo, that doesn’t mean a potential market doesn’t exist

 

[mozichrome]

So if you don’t like late night shows why even chime in...clearly you’re not the demo, that doesn’t mean a potential market doesn’t exist

I commented because I watch espn programming
Whether it's live games, sports center, PTI, or ATH, high noon

Hell most folks on this forum claim never to watch their channels for anything other than games and are commenting

 

[tremonthustler1]

It’s not a problem...do you think sports fans, the people watching, are too dense to understand the show will air when a game is over, otherwise it’s on at xx-o’clock? That’s like acting like people don’t know what time inside the nba will come on, it comes on after the god damn game goes off

Inside the NBA is a POSTGAME show. When does it air? Postgame. It’s attached to the game itself. A nightly talk show can’t operate under that uncertainty of a time slot.

No I don’t remember Beadle show because I don’t watch nbcsn, also, given net wide opinion of her, she herself may have been the issue.

They kept changing formats and time slots, so people didn’t even know what they were tuning into. Beadle didn’t help, but she went back to ESPN and didn’t miss a beat.

To everything else you said between this thread and the baseball one, you seem to have no ability to think outside the box or beyond the status quo that you know and become accustomed to.

Me telling you why that channel couldn’t practically and logistically have a talk show is not me not thinking outside of the box. It’s me telling you that it would be destined to fail. ESPN thinking outside of the box is them doing “Get Up!” How’s that working out?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I commented because I watch espn programming
Whether it's live games, sports center, PTI, or ATH, high noon

Hell most folks on this forum claim never to watch their channels for anything other than games and are commenting

Right, but they serve your needs with the programs you watch, some others might tune in if they didn’t depend on the player out format of the shows you love. Room for both

Inside the NBA is a POSTGAME show. When does it air? Postgame. It’s attached to the game itself. A nightly talk show can’t operate under that uncertainty of a time slot.


They kept changing formats and time slots, so people didn’t even know what they were tuning into. Beadle didn’t help, but she went back to ESPN and didn’t miss a beat.





Me telling you why that channel couldn’t practically and logistically have a talk show is not me not thinking outside of the box. It’s me telling you that it would be destined to fail. ESPN thinking outside of the box is them doing “Get Up!” How’s that working out?

a talk show can be aired post game, how is that hard? Outside of a crazy long/extra inning baseball game, regulation nfl and nba games are pretty much done st the same Time. If you turn on espn at 11 and s game is still going, you like the show will be on when it’s done. Just stop

And get up is not thinking outside the box, they took a boring established name on the channel put it with other ok names and created a roundhouse highlight show. Nothing more than sportcenter with more talk and less outrageous debate than first take

 

[tremonthustler1]

a talk show can be aired post game, how is that hard? Outside of a crazy long/extra inning baseball game, regulation nfl and nba games are pretty much done st the same Time. If you turn on espn at 11 and s game is still going, you like the show will be on when it’s done. Just stop

YES! They wouldn’t replace the 11 o’clock Sportscenter with a taped talk show! And as I said earlier, if a talk show gets preempted at all it’s a problem. Talk shows need a consistent time slot. Without it, you’re screwed.

Just watch Kimmel. That’s what ESPN would want you to do anyway.

 

[ryderldb]

I think they tried with them barstool dudes, but obviously that went down in flames.

 

[pete clemenza]

Simple.

1. It's a news station first. Even networks show the news before they have talk shows.

2. ABC already has Jimmy Kimmel. That's where they send their sports related guests if they do it at all (also, it would be a major pain in the ass to get athlete guests on the couch nightly. It's not practical. Most nights would just be the host trying to talk to someone via satellite, which doesn't work on late night talk shows.

3. (and this is a major one). They'd preempt the shyt outta that show every night. You can't do doubleheaders at night AND have a talk show. If a game runs too long, it's gonna get preempted.

4. Lastly, that shyt is expensive to produce.

EDIT: Almost forgot: talk shows aren't live.

Games ending late would definitely be a problem but a talk show isn't expensive to produce at all. They pretty much already have a studio set already in LA and Bristol.. they would simply need to add some seating for an audience. Your standard scripted television show on ABC with multiple interior and exterior shot locations is where the money flies out of the window. A single episode of a hour long show can cost from $1- 4 million. Game Of Thrones costs HBO $10 million per episode. A talk show is peanuts. They need to drop one of these espn channels that nobody watches. Is the Longhorn Network still in business?