Hightlight shows at the end of the day are a thing of the past. They ain't coming back grandpa. I predict this thread will quickly switch to people crying that ESPN is too liberal, too involved in politics, etc.
I'm old, but why do people care about what Stephen A Smith or Skip Bayless have to say on so many issues? It's like people want to be spoon fed their opinions these days.
They are laying off because they push a liberal agenda and people aren't buying into it anymore so their numbers are down.
You can get highlights anywhere and everywhere instantly these days and cords are being cut at a breakneck pace. They have to do something to grow subs...or realistically flatline subs....or probably even more realistically slow the rate of subs loss.
Awesome prediction as one fool has already done it. These numbnuts are so predictable. Well done.
Cord cutters plus they way overpaid for most of their sports deals. The helped push up subscriber costs and played a part in driving customers away from cable and satellite. Add to that their programming has become bad enough that their customers can do without them and get sports elsewhere.
NBC does a great job with the NHL and I like a lot of their NBCSN programing, I'm watching more and more of them and less and less of the crap we see on ESPN.
You can get watchespn or the espn app a lot cheaper than you pay for it via subscriber fees and you dont pay for a lot of channels you dont watch. The problem ESPN has is their tv deals and payouts are based on subscriber fees for ALL cable/sattelite customers and when people who watch it buy it and all the others dont it is hard to recoup the advertisement dollars to pay for their deals. These layoffs are a bottom line cut to free up cash that is already spent.