rumored to be laying off 100 employees right after Thanksgiving now.
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/928723438969212928
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/928723438969212928
ESPN collapse continues
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The fact that ESPN absolutely refuses to do a Netflix-like subscription service for their main line of content shows that they are going to be gone in ten years. They overpaid their way into long term contracts just when their growth decided to reverse. They are too 17ing scared of pissing off the cable and satellite companies that they are willing to die over it.
I think Disney is starting a streaming service in 2019 that'll have ESPN included. They are pulling most of their content off Netflix too when it starts. Disney is also about to buy Fox. Disney is the devil.
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Should have stuck to Sports.... I don't watch the network except for MSU Sporting Events....The rest of their non event content is so political I choose not to watch it....
Unfortunately, this is very common for big corporations as they try to make their end of year budget reduction targets. Whenever I've seen it, it rubbed me the wrong way, too, that they can't wait a few months.
Sooooo... it's not like it's a ratings thing.
The sheer number of people dumping cable/satellite/fiber directly take from the monthly revenues ESPN/Disney was getting. About $8.00 of what people pay to their pay TV provider goes to ESPN for the primary channel alone. Add in ESPN2/ESPNU/SECN/LHN/ESPNNews/ESPNClassic/ESPN3 streaming and it ends up being close to $10.00-$11.00 per month just for the ESPN family of networks. All of Fox Sports is maybe $2.00 per month.
http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
So yeah, if 50,000 people drop pay TV this month, it's a loss of $4,500,000 to $6,000,000 annually for ESPN, but only like $1 million for Fox.
Despite the ******** spewed by the Clay Travises of the world, ESPN getting "too political" has almost nothing to do with it. The shows/time slots where political talk occurred were already their lowest rated time slots, but they are so cheaply produced that it's hard for them not to make money filling in the gaps between live events.
There's not a person in here that is going to boycott Mississippi State vs Alabama because of something Jemele Hill said on a show we don't watch anyway.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-espn-streaming-service-will-look-like-2017-08-08
This is like saying McDonald's is going to offer a delivery service, but you can't order burgers and fries.
This is like saying McDonald's is going to offer a delivery service, but you can't order burgers and fries.
The first reduction in force at Marshall Space Flight Center was just before Christmas in 1967. Close to 800 as I recall. It wasn't long after the Saturn V first flew. This was the beginning of huge cuts in the space program that went on for years.
I’ve seen it done in small businesses. On one hand, I understand not wanting to keep somebody if you plan on firing them, especially if you give out end of year bonuses.
But still, it’s right before Christmas and it’s ******. No way around it.
Clark: It's a one year membership to the Jelly of the Month Club.
Eddie: Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.
I got canned three days after the company Christmas party, where the CEO proudly announced the highest sales and profits in the company's history.
(forgot an important detail)
One week shy of being employed there long enough to file for unemployment.
(forgot an important detail)
One week shy of being employed there long enough to file for unemployment.
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Been there
It's funny because it's true. No Christmas like the Christmas of 97! The fact that I remember the year says it all.
It's funny because it's true. No Christmas like the Christmas of 97! The fact that I remember the year says it all.
I took it as a comment on corporate as a whole.
And to me, their golden calf looked similar to a certain mouse symbol.
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There was no end...
that's what they thought as they pushed for and signed up the Long Horn Network. Ha Ha.
Ultimately everyone's sports budget will be affected. (but ya'll knew that).
These coaching salaries are preposterous.
Eat **** ESPN!
that's what they thought as they pushed for and signed up the Long Horn Network. Ha Ha.
Ultimately everyone's sports budget will be affected. (but ya'll knew that).
These coaching salaries are preposterous.
Eat **** ESPN!
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You had to learn how to live around layoffs in the 70's and 80's where I grew up in North Mississippi.
Work your *** off for a few months, then slow down one layoff at a time. It's had to explain to my kids and I hate sounding like my grandparents and parents talking about the Depression because that time was far worse.
Even though I did not experience the layoffs in my last manufacturing job at Cooper Tire, the memories of those times prompted me to return to night school and then to MSU full time to change my career and options.
It's weird when I visit home and see the areas that used to have those little factories that ran away with NAFTA and were never replaced.
Not more than FS1 or any other cable sports network.
Point being, ESPN ratings are not declining at a faster clip than than the industry as a whole.
If it was, then you could speak to content.
Found myself and my wife out of a job during the first week of December 2012. Pretty much the low point of my life. Luckily we were both employed by the start of the next week, but sitting on your couch wondering what you are gonna do about Christmas with a newborn and no jobs freaking sucks. That's the definition of feeling like a failure. Thank God for lucky breaks and a strong bounce back.
Am I a jerk if I’m hoping Jemele Hill is one of them? If so, I’m Ok with being a jerk.
I guess fortunately,
I don't know who he is.
Generally, if it's not live sports, I rarely watch them.
Do watch Finebaum...for info content.
I don't know who he is.
Generally, if it's not live sports, I rarely watch them.
Do watch Finebaum...for info content.
That was me at the 2011 Gator Bowl. Found out just a couple days before the game. New car in November. Credit card ran up in flight, hotel, and tickets. At least we kicked Michigan’s ***.
In 1975 my position with a fortune 500 company in south florida was abolished... I was offered the same position in Jackson TN or Starkville MS......Nevera doubt where I chose... Best thing that ever happened to me...Retired now and on the coast
Kinda sorta related, it was announced at my company that times were hard, so nobody was going to get a raise that year. A couple of weeks later all the vice presidents received their new leased cars to park around the flagpole in front of the admin building. A real slap in the face of thousands.
You do realize there are other Sportscenters besides their 6pm one, right? There are a couple morning ones on ESPN2 and I hear SVP kinds sorta has one too...
Don't feel too bad for the laid off employees. They are gonna get a fat severance package with a Christmas bonus included probably plus they get all of December off now to be with their families and they don't have to work for the drama queen ESPN anymore.
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