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Old 04-26-2017, 07:51 AM  
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ESPN lays off Ed Werder day before the NFL draft



And that's just the beginning of the bloodbath. Up to 100 ESPNers are expected to be axed, including a lot of on-air folks. So consider this the ESPN Layoffs Megathread to track all the victims.
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Old 04-26-2017, 06:07 PM   #196
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Old 04-26-2017, 06:19 PM   #197
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Old 04-26-2017, 06:19 PM   #198
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Old 04-26-2017, 06:23 PM   #200
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Yeah I think ESPN just went too big and couldn't keep it up. Expansion and hiring with gaudy budgets and salaries, then when the ratings aren't there you don't pump more money into an overinflated mess, you cut from it back to a level where it can sustain itself.
I'd be interested to see how they made their calls. We will never know, but there are some oddball names out there. You can say they're looking keeping guys that relate to milenials, but Squirmin Herman Mother****ing Sack of **** Edwards doesn't - surely. (**** that ****ing guy. Seriously).

It can't be a salary thing. Gruden would be out the door. He doesn't relate to milenials. What about LeBatard? He's a nuance focused guy. What about Golic. WTF is he ?

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Old 04-26-2017, 06:42 PM   #201
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Old 04-26-2017, 06:50 PM   #202
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Yeah I think ESPN just went too big and couldn't keep it up. Expansion and hiring with gaudy budgets and salaries, then when the ratings aren't there you don't pump more money into an overinflated mess, you cut from it back to a level where it can sustain itself.
The thing that also isn't getting much play today is rights fees. They pay a ton of money to air all of the sports they air. They pay almost $2 billion per year just to air Monday Night Football. That's one game a week, and there isn't even MNF in week 17. Then you have the NBA, MLB, NCAA Football playoffs and all the individual college conferences.

That may be the most interesting aspect of this for people like us who are sports fans. Have we reached the peak? Most all of these leagues make big money off these rights fees. Will ESPN continue to pay to air all these sports or become more of a CNN or Fox News type channel where people just argue about sports all day? I imagine this is where groups like Amazon Prime and Netflix might step up during the next TV negotiations... one day one of these leagues is going to move to a streaming service. But will it be as much money?
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Old 04-26-2017, 07:00 PM   #203
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The thing that also isn't getting much play today is rights fees. They pay a ton of money to air all of the sports they air. They pay almost $2 billion per year just to air Monday Night Football. That's one game a week, and there isn't even MNF in week 17. Then you have the NBA, MLB, NCAA Football playoffs and all the individual college conferences.

That may be the most interesting aspect of this for people like us who are sports fans. Have we reached the peak? Most all of these leagues make big money off these rights fees. Will ESPN continue to pay to air all these sports or become more of a CNN or Fox News type channel where people just argue about sports all day? I imagine this is where groups like Amazon Prime and Netflix might step up during the next TV negotiations... one day one of these leagues is going to move to a streaming service. But will it be as much money?
I'm sure the bubble is slowly bursting... and it's not like laying off 100 people really puts a dent into those rights contracts, much less broadcasting expenses, etc.
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Old 04-26-2017, 07:02 PM   #204
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I'm afraid we're just speaking past each other here. You're arguing that the politics aren't relevant. I'm arguing that they're relevant in the 'who' comprises their viewer base and if they aren't rebounding to the extend they would like, it's absolutely because of those politics.

Let's say ESPN has a focus group of 100 people and of those 100 people, 30 are just going to fade away - full stop. This is pretty likely. So now ESPN is down to 70 and their choices are to try to keep all 70 at their current viewing patters or to appeal to some segment of that 70 more strongly.

In my estimation, ESPN chose the latter. They chose to make politics part of the platform and in so doing, they just flat out alienated another 20. Of the remaining 50, maybe 20 of them actually give a shit about the politics and the 30 in the middle are just people that are still watching based on nothing more than intertia.

I don't believe these choices happened in the last year - I believe they happened really about 4-5 years ago. And the 20 that care about the politics aren't doing enough to make up for the 20 that left because of the politics. And if they had, THIS round of layoffs may not have been necessary. Or at least not to this extent.

I believe you're of the mind that those same 50 viewers would've left either way and I just don't think that's correct. I think perhaps they'd have lost 50 viewers of some stripe no matter what direction they chose, but had they chose that direction better, they could've increased saturation over 1/2 those remaining viewers enough to cover some of the losses and they could've stemmed the tide by now.
I don't watch ESPN except for live games but I have to agree with KCChiefsFan88, I think this due to almost all to cord cutters and as tk pointed out how much they pay to broadcast live games.

I don't think it has much to do with their perceived politics because the stats bear out that people that would be offended by ESPN's perceived move to the left are probably not cord cutters. The vast majority of cord cutters are Millennials while older Americans aren't.
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I guess this churn explains Katie Nolan going after Hannity on twitter the other day.
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