ESPN's 32% ratings crash - layoffs happening
I watch it quite a bit because I love college basketball and watch the MLB during the summer. Also I think the 30-For-30 movies are all quite good. So I'm watching more than I ever have, but apparently nobody else is:
http://deadspin.com/espns-ratings-ar...atte-722030528 |
Their coverage sucks.
I'm not impressed with the NFLN but it's still all NFL all the time... |
Maybe they should quit sucking? :shrug:
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How are they sucking?
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This calls for MORE TEBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Pretty much everything other than their live sporting events and some of the 30 for 30s is crap.
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I rarely watch ESPN, other than live games. I tried to watch Baseball Tonight the other day after the Royals beat the Yankees, but Curt Schilling is unbearable.
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They're horrible
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I cannot WAIT for the home-run hitting contest Monday night!
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I pretty much only watch football games on ESPN. I do usually record and mostly fast forward through their NFL pregame show (3 hours now!) but I think that's mostly through habit.
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If I started a station and just talked about a 3rd string, wannabe quarterback then my ratings would probably suck too.
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Only bars watch Sportcenter.
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I seem to be in the minority, but I actually like Chris Berman. |
Hate their coverage. They live in an east coast bubble.
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****, I can't wait for football season. I miss those pre-game shows.
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It's the TMZ of sports, and even when they have a chance at decent content (NFL countdown, college gameday) and not just the same old crap rehashed in different formats (PTI, Around the Horn, SportsCenter, etc) , they spread it out over 2 or 3 hours with 50% commercials.
I watch live sports, some football pregame if I pause it long enough to skip commercials, and should probably watch 30 for 30. |
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I mean, they have access to hundreds of hours of footage every week and I get the same ****ing 6 plays looped from each game? That's horseshit. They'd be doing themselves a big favor to expand their highlight coverage. |
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Hey Herm, um Ray Farmer wants to see you...
He says bring your play book. |
ESPN ratings are down and on August 16, Fox is rolling out a brand new sports network.
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Can't stand the Fox pregame and won't watch it. |
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I like that show. Definitely better than Shannon Sharpe, Bill Cowher and Michael Strahan, that's for sure. I do like James Brown, Boomer, Marino, and Bradshaw though so I'll tune into CBS and FOX from time to time. |
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And the other one is James Brown, Bradshaw, Strahan, Howie and some other dude I'm forgetting? I always get them mixed up. |
I also love the fact that they are the most expensive cable channel by far.
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I prefer the ESPN pre-game the most but on commercials or during bullshit ass segments I don't want to watch I'll often flip between the other two.
Truthfully, I enjoy them all. I just use them to pass the time until the football starts anyway so I just need something that isn't completely annoying. |
FOX's new sports network is going to compete with ESPN big time. They have the content and the their SportsCenter type show will challenge them.
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I have a hard time watching a female lead speaking with a female field reporter and trying to take the conversation very seriously.
30 for 30 is a fantastic series, one of the best. I think there are several factors hurting viewership;
I like Kornheiser and Wilbon but not much more. Some of their MLB coverage is decent but no Tony Kubek, Joe Garagiola, or Curt Gowdy types I think their NFL coverage has gotten worse the last 10 years or so. I watch it much less than I did |
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Trying to do too much...
Sports enter is solid, if unspectacular. Bob Ley's show is decent. Obviously live sports are great. But the talk shows are ridiculous, and I can't imagine anyone watches them (though I assume they do, as they keep rolling out more). That said, they are becoming the victim of the same thing every other traditional news outlet is. I can get my news in a more personally tailored, and efficient manner at the touch of my fingers. I can hear discussions I actually want to hear about by more discriminantly choosing podcasts. I can listen to local sports radio, even if I don't live in the locale I want to hear about. And now there is a stand alone network for the four major US sports. I think their knee jerk reactions to this has been to try more and more to bring in "casual" fans with comedy and talk. Add to that, running home to the "mama" of preaching nearly exclusively to the New York audience. What I (humbly) think they SHOULD do, is go back to their roots. Run those third tier sports more. Replay games. Pick up a patchwork of niches, rather than trying to be vanilla and get everything. I find myself watching rugby on the NBC sports network. I find myself watching NBA D-league and summer games. I truly wish there was more access to NHL, like there used to be. Hell, I don't even mind watching poker now and again. Just stop trying to be MTV. Be a sports network. Show more actual sports, rather than more people making sports jokes. |
Here are the guys that Fox hired to do their SportsCenter
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To be honest, outside of watching some college basketball and NFL games I almost never even tune into ESPN. I've gotten to the point that I pretty much just watch the teams I like, and since none of them are on the East coast I don't have to turn to ESPN very often. I get all of my sports news from here and the web.
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Man, I remember when ESPN first came out. There was no programming. They literally had shows of Strongest Man Competition where dudes would roll massive tires down the street. Roy Firestone would give his tear-inducing interviews wearing that blue-ish blazer. They'd have replays of "Home Run Derby" from the 1950s in black & white.
The product really changed when they landed MLB in the later part of the 1980s. Now they have MNF obviously. I can't believe people think the new format sucks when you should've seen the old! |
I haven't watched sports center in months. Their coverage will always be there but the news portion of ESPN is not great.
Talent gets expensive and ESPN lets them go. Not sure that's their problem but I can't think it helps. |
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Useless network nowadays. Used to watch it quite a bit. Now it's well down the list and only when I can't find anything else to watch.
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**** ESPN. They created their bed now they can go die in it. |
Live sports - Awesome
30 for 30 - Awesome College Gameday - Good Everything else including all other pre/post-game coverage - Absolute garbage The End. |
They can stick First Take up their ass.
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I'd rather watch flies ****
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I used to watch the old home run derby shows when I was in grade school. Those were cool.
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It really started to go downhill when Lou Palmer left.
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They keep making up stories and/or reporting on stories that have no merit.
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I used to watch a lot hoping to get any news about the Chiefs. Thanks to the intrawebs I dont have to sit through 59 min of shit to get 1 min of Chiefs. Other than the occasional game, I never watch
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I almost never watch it. Seems like the entire network is geared toward young urban punks - you know, the ones who generally get their news from twitter and don't watch ESPN, either.
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Plus they getting rid of all the hot babes on espn and leaving us crap like first take and pti and stuff it's got so bad they rehired max kellerman. i hate herm and hate collin cowherd. I hate that they don't show aussie rule football and show tennis and golf. Espn for the most part is dead to me.
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I hadn't watched ESPN in probably 4-5 months. Then when the Royals beat the Yankees on Monday I flipped to Sportscenter for the butthurt. They did the highlight and couldn't even pronounce the Royals players names correctly.
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no1curr
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OMG LEBRONLEBRONLEBRON OMG TEAMS FROM NEW YORK OR BOSTON That's how they suck. |
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It's easy for us to say they're East Coast bubble but there are 10x as many New Yorkers as Kansas Citians. Let's be real: nobody around the country gives a rat's ass about either of our bad sports franchises. If you lived in Washington DC, would you want to hear about the 2-14 Chiefs (no playoff wins in 19 years) or the horrible Royals (none in 28 years).
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It seems like they don't understand their audience. I don't care what clothes NBA players are wearing before the game, and the kind of people who do care probably aren't watching ESPN. |
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The problem is people turn to the internet for news. If there would have been one save our chiefs update i would have supported the shit out of them. But the fact is they only cover big stupid east coast shit. Its on 24 hours a day thats enough time to cover all the little stuff in the small media markets is it not? Shit it doesnt even have to be super interesting put some reporter wannabe college girls on them let them read the script.
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2.) The rest of the country has way way way more people than New York. 3.) Apparently people DO care because ESPNs ratings are going down the toilet |
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I'm so glad they're getting serious competition here in a month or so. Maybe it will force them to put some interesting shows on air and push out some of these hack broadcaster/journalists I'm sick to death of seeing. |
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Hard to call it "competition" when they aren't going to have any major sports to broadcast. Hard to imagine what they'll put on there. Maybe old re-runs of the "Strongman Competitions"
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Their ratings are cooling like the other side of the pillow.
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So congrats to ESPN for targeting all those east coast viewers. They just did it at the expense of 30+% of their ratings. |
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There are 32 NFL teams, if each team had a half hour show once a week it wouldn't even take up a whole day of programming. Hell, if they just had a half hour show for each division, I might be interested in watching. |
Of course their ratings are down...MLB, NFL and NBA all have their own networks. I watch MLB Network constantly during baseball season. Around the Horn and PTI are good...but what's the point of watching SportsCenter when MLB Network is all baseball, all the time and that's the only major sport in play right now? I don't get my football update from Herm freaking Edwards on NFL Countdown every day...I have the internet for that.
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Apparently, I'm not alone.... |
The total focus on NY or LA is only part of it. They have gone the MTV route – appealing to the lowest common denominator and being more “entertainment” than “news”. They pick their little pets (Lakers, Lebron, Tebow, Yankees) and center the entire station around them.
Not to mention propping up trolls like Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith. |
...and with the dumbass government banning online poker...they can't even whore out the WSOP this time of year for cheap ratings grabs because no one cares anymore since we can't play anymore
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