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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Mike80 said:
ESECSECSECPN lost 500,000 - that's right, half a million - subscribers in the month of April. Most of the other big ones took haircuts too (TNT, FS1, NBCSN). While this isn't just an ESPN problem, those other channels don't have the immensely expensive (and unpopular) Get Up! show that is costing millions to produce.

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-500000-subscribers-april/



That's awesome right there. They clearly are the WCW of 2018....maybe they should have employed Eric Bischoff just to make the parallels even more prominent? :lol:
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A link within that link:

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espns-wokecenter-collapsing-ratings-set-off-panic-bristol/

On Monday ESPN debuted a new morning show, “Get Up,” or as we prefer to call it on Outkick, WokeCenter AM. The show’s ratings were, to be put it mildly, a complete and total disaster. Only 283,000 people tuned in to watch the show’s debut, much less than the average viewership last April of 327,000 for SportsCenter AM.

On Tuesday ratings fell again, dropping to 243,000 viewers, and the overnight ratings for Wednesday suggest viewership will fall once more, to around 200,000 viewers. (Peppa Pig did over 750,000 viewers on Monday going head to head with WokeCenter AM. But, to be fair, it was a great episode.)
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That was a pretty solid Peppa Pig episode.
 
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Worst of all, in the final kick in the balls from the high priest of WokeCenter, the cocaine addled and fired for being extorted by a woman John Skipper, the ratings calamity for mornings on ESPN is actually a three ring circus of burning buildings. A raging conflagration of ineptitude. Consider — John Skipper broke up the most successful radio show in ESPN history, Mike & Mike, to launch WokeCenter AM with Mike Greenberg, which is now directly competing with Mike Golic’s radio show for viewers and advertisers. And in the process Skipper spent tens of millions of dollars on a brand new New York City studio to kick SportsCenter off the air, the most venerable brand on ESPN, and lose nearly half of ESPN’s morning viewers in the process.

In other words, in one incredibly disastrous move, Skipper torpedoed his most successful radio show of all time, blew up his most valuable TV franchise, and launched a dud of a new program. It isn’t just that WokeCenter AM is dying, it’s that it’s a suicide bomber who also took out Mike & Mike and SportsCenter.

John Skipper spent millions of more dollars a year to make millions of dollars less.

Cocaine really is a hell of a drug.
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BigJim said:
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And his salary was how much?

Isn't it stunning the money there is to be made by being wholly incompetent?

I (and how many others?) could have told these morons that the success of M&M was the chemistry between them, not Greeny's scintillating personality alone. It was all-caps, bold-print predictable that he wouldn't carry a show under his own power.
 
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NFBuck said:
I don't know how [ESPN] survive many more years with viable news entities and social media platforms essentially rendering them obsolete. Their transition to "TMZ Sports" seems to be a hail mary to try to carve out a niche for themselves.
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If cable companies ever go to an ala carte payment model, so that ESPN isn't automatically getting a piece of every basic cable subscriber, that will hurt ESPN badly. Until then, they may need to take the occasional haircut, but they'll probably be okay.
 
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Perhaps they should avoid using their unpaid interns to write headlines? I suspect that the late Dr. Strauss has already had to deal with the consequences of his actions.

Former Ohio State doctor faces more sexual misconduct allegations

...The reports follow an initial allegation announced last month against Strauss, who died in 2005...

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...uct-allegations-ex-ohio-state-buckeyes-doctor
 
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DiamondBuck said:
Perhaps they should avoid using their unpaid interns to write headlines? I suspect that the late Dr. Strauss has already had to deal with the consequences of his actions.

Former Ohio State doctor faces more sexual misconduct allegations

...The reports follow an initial allegation announced last month against Strauss, who died in 2005...

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...uct-allegations-ex-ohio-state-buckeyes-doctor
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Valyrie Wagner ·
Arizona State University
It should say Deceased doctor facing allegations. Will he be tried by his own peers? If so how will they keep the zombies from eating the witnesses? Pretty sure Beetlejuice will be his attorney so this circus should at least be entertaining.
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colobuck79 said:
So I get into the car this morning and my sirius/xm radio is set to the espn radio channel as I must have been tuned into some game over the weekend. First thing I hear, Golic and Wingo talking about Johnny Football. You can't make this stuff up. You get better sports coverage listening to Howard Stern.
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Well I don’t think Tiger played this weekend and you can only speculate so much on LeBron.....
 
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/05/25/how-weakened-espn-became-consumed-by-politics.html
  • Still defending throwing themselves into any of the political arguments of the day.
  • Still too stupid to realize that people turn to sports as a means to avoid politics - the news in general.
  • They should stop production of "Wake UP"
  • They should get out of their MNF and NBA contracts, if it is at all possible
  • No more political discussion on any show. Period.
  • No more screaming head debate shows. Period.
  • Go back to their roots - sportscenter with scores/highlights and quality coverage of obscure/interesting sports.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/05/25/how-weakened-espn-became-consumed-by-politics.html
  • Still defending throwing themselves into any of the political arguments of the day.
  • Still too stupid to realize that people turn to sports as a means to avoid politics - the news in general.
  • They should stop production of "Wake UP"
  • They should get out of their MNF and NBA contracts, if it is at all possible
  • No more political discussion on any show. Period.
  • No more screaming head debate shows. Period.
  • Go back to their roots - sportscenter with scores/highlights and quality coverage of obscure/interesting sports.
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I can't express how surprised I am that Fox News is critical of another media outlet for taking politically moderate or liberal positions.
 
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