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Armageddon at ESPN today

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by TigerVols, Oct 21, 2015.

  1. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Gus also has now posted a column. It is here: Gus Stuff: ESPN - Thanks for the memories
     
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  2. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

  3. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the IJAG info, MileHigh.
     
  4. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    She hasn't been here, either.
     
  5. pseudo

    pseudo Well-Known Member

  6. Fredrick

    Fredrick Well-Known Member

    What a non sequitir. ESPN, which has contracts with all those sports for billions of dollars of rights fees, has cut a batch of bodies. You know what this reminds me of? Baseball. The teams are going to be falling over themselves to sign a hack like Johnny Cueto for 25 million a year for five years and yet they'll send home a grounds crew early to save a few bucks from minimum wage type workers. Can someone explain how ESPN can throw billions for rights fees and has to cut normal folk who are just trying to put food on the table?
     
  7. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    It reminds me of America.
     
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  8. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    You mean the $1.9 billion they pay to the NFL annually?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/s...xtends-deal-with-nfl-for-15-billion.html?_r=0

    Divide by the number of games (add a playoff game and an occasional Super Bowl).
     
  9. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Between ratings and cord-cutters, ESPN is in a tough spot, they need the rights to justify the price, but if the price is too high and people drop cable they lose advertising base. Do they drop the rate they are asking? I don't think they get where they need to be by cutting staff. I've always wondered why ESPN didn't leverage itself better. They overpay on rights fees routinely. Leagues need to be on ESPN and they could use their heft to move the rights fees market.
     
  10. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Someone's gonna tell us TV is DEAD pretty soon.
     
  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Rock 'n' roll is dead,
    Long live rock.
     
  12. YorksArcades

    YorksArcades Active Member

    TV will not be dead for a long time.

    Unless there is some new innovation in the near future, there will at the very least be TVs drawing eyes at bars, restaurants, etc.

    This is where ESPN's current programming, largely consisting of navel-gazers sitting around a desk and trying desperately to sound smart, is a dismal failure. That type of offering is destined to fail -- hard.
     
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