Armageddon at ESPN today

[YorksArcades]

I'm closer to 50 than 40.

The gold medal factory is hard at work, I'm sure.

 

[exmediahack]

TV will not be dead for a long time. The programming is changing -- Netflix, HBO/Showtime for the most compelling creative content.

As one in TV news, it's actually pretty strong, even in 2015. The key is work in markets that are "cold and old". (Upper Midwest/Rust Belt) and also the Carolinas (NC is political swing and SC is early primary). These regions still have lots of viewers and decent economies for advertising dollars.

 

[Doc Holliday]

TV will not be dead for a long time. The programming is changing -- Netflix, HBO/Showtime for the most compelling creative content.

Just to be clear, I never said TV was dead and I don't think it is or will be for decades if ever. However, if I can cut the cord and find it so liberating, there's no telling what this next generation will do. I'll never go back to cable/satellite or subscription based TV.

Now, allow me to pick and package my own channels and I'll do that. In fact, that's why I picked up a subscription to SlingTV ... I get ESPN, ESPN2 and History channel, and CNN. I really don't need or want anything else.

Besides, I use a lot of my free time now to work out, exercise, etc., and for the past 4+ years I've been in the best shape of my life. That alone, will keep me from ever going back to watching TV like I used to.

 

[exmediahack]

I'm with you on working out and not watching TV as well.

Ticks me off when I think of all the free time I had before.

 

[TigerVols]

Is it possible to drop cable and still have access to ESPN's college football games? That's pretty much the only thing I watch on the WWL. Well, that and PTI.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Yes, but I think you need SlingTv.

I have an Amazon Fire Stick. Can't remember if WatchESPN made me log in the first time.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Is it possible to drop cable and still have access to ESPN's college football games? That's pretty much the only thing I watch on the WWL. Well, that and PTI.

SlingTV is your answer.

 

[FileNotFound]

Haven't had cable for 5 years, only really miss it in October during the baseball playoffs. I don't think TV's dead or ever going to be, but its business model is going to go through the same sort of shakeup that other media are facing.

 

[Cosmo]

Cable wouldn't be worth it without the DVR or On Demand options. Allows me to watch things on my own schedule. Wouldn't pay for it otherwise.

 

[dixiehack]

Is there a streaming service that will work off my iPhone as opposed to needing home internet access?

 

[Ace]

Is there a streaming service that will work off my iPhone as opposed to needing home internet access?

If there is, you better have an unlimited data plan.

 

[dixiehack]

I do. The only reason I've stuck with Sprint.

 

[Vombatus]

I think TV will be OK until someone perfects those sex performing robots.

 

[Fran Curci]

Anyone hear anything further on who has been laid off at the website?

 

[Steak Snabler]

I do. The only reason I've stuck with Sprint.

Same here.

 

[DanOregon]

I really feel for those cut loose by ESPN. Sounds like these were senior people who had been there a while. Tough enough hitting the job market after being somewhere for 15 years or more, even tougher when you are one of 300. Figure a few will land jobs with MLB, NFL and NBA networks, FS1, but most will be looking at jobs with much lower pay, lower standards and lower impact. Really tough knowing you're leaving probably the best place you'll ever work.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I really feel for those cut loose by ESPN. Sounds like these were senior people who had been there a while. Tough enough hitting the job market after being somewhere for 15 years or more, even tougher when you are one of 300. Figure a few will land jobs with MLB, NFL and NBA networks, FS1, but most will be looking at jobs with much lower pay, lower standards and lower impact. Really tough knowing you're leaving probably the best place you'll ever work.

Particularly if you live in Bristol and have to move your family.

 

[Liut]

Who's that? I've never heard of that person.

LOL. I guess I got her confused with Hannah Storen.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

These weren’t household names like Bill Simmons or Keith Olbermann, who left earlier in the year. In fact, none of ESPN’s on-air talent were part of the cuts. Rather, they were friends and colleagues. There were the producers who spent their entire career on the ESPN campus and executives who are raising families in Bristol, Conn. — hardly a hotbed for sports media.

The+moves+that+forced+ESPN%e2%80%99s+cuts

 

[poindexter]

I'll say it again: $100 million for each monday night football game.