Don't be cute. Explain what you meant by your ERSN commentThere is no joke there
Don't be cute. Explain what you meant by your ERSN commentThere is no joke there
Hopefully this will open the door for that one ethical lawyer to get air time on ESPN.I guess he'll have to just go back to being a disbarred lawyer. Instead of a disbarred lawyer giving shitty analysis on teevee.
Well I can't be expected to read everything on this page.My comment was in direct reference to the quote nattysez provided. That quote was bigoted
I'd be worried about you if you couldWell I can't be expected to read everything on this page.
I mean Shannon Sharpe and Skip are trying hard, but they can't even come close. All clowns may be clowns, but not all are funny. I have no doubt that if ESPN lets SAS go, somebody else will show him the money.
Oh, I have no doubt that SAS would make good money at another network if he ever left ESPN. I guess the question is whether that would be money well spent, and I would think the Bayless example suggests it wouldn't be: the ratings when he was on First Take were by all accounts great, but he's gotten nothing on FS1, suggesting that the draw was not the personality but instead the mere fact that he was on ESPN as opposed to some other network.I dont know where the empirical support is, but when it comes to getting eyeballs to watch hyper-amplified vapidity, I suppose the personality of the shouting clown is probably the draw.
You're missing viewing habits though. People instinctively turn ESPN on because it has had quality programming over an extended period, yes, even today. FS1 has yet to shown the ability to make any original content worth a damn that aren't a blatant attempt to copy ESPN. FS1 has live sports rights and that's about its only value prop to get people to instinctively switch from ESPN. NBC Sports was able to do this somewhat successfully by focusing on niche areas like hockey and soccer whereas FS1 has tried to be ESPN out of the box.Oh, I have no doubt that SAS would make good money at another network if he ever left ESPN. I guess the question is whether that would be money well spent, and I would think the Bayless example suggests it wouldn't be: the ratings when he was on First Take were by all accounts great, but he's gotten nothing on FS1, suggesting that the draw was not the personality but instead the mere fact that he was on ESPN as opposed to some other network.
Garbage time is better original content than anything current (not biographical like 30/30) ESPN has.You're missing viewing habits though. People instinctively turn ESPN on because it has had quality programming over an extended period, yes, even today. FS1 has yet to shown the ability to make any original content worth a damn that aren't a blatant attempt to copy ESPN. FS1 has live sports rights and that's about its only value prop to get people to instinctively switch from ESPN. NBC Sports was able to do this somewhat successfully by focusing on niche areas like hockey and soccer whereas FS1 has tried to be ESPN out of the box.
Agreed.Garbage time is better original content than anything current (not biographical like 30/30) ESPN has.
Yet nobody cares.Garbage time is better original content than anything current (not biographical like 30/30) ESPN has.
I still can't believe Katie Nolan hasn't jumped ship yet.Yet nobody cares.
Is her content really anything great? I've tried a few times and outside of her bashing sexist remarks (like Peter king, et al), I thought it wasn't anything clever. and her interviews are rough. Her show got killed by Barstool relatively speaking in ratings.I still can't believe Katie Nolan hasn't jumped ship yet.
I still can't believe Katie Nolan hasn't jumped ship yet.
I'm shocked she hasn't gone to Barstool actually. Her humor and social media presence would fit in perfectly there, and finding a true female lead has been Portnoy's white whale ever since Jenna Marbles left forever ago. It almost seems like too obvious of a match.Is her content really anything great? I've tried a few times and outside of her bashing sexist remarks (like Peter king, et al), I thought it wasn't anything clever. and her interviews are rough. Her show got killed by Barstool relatively speaking in ratings.
I can see her being a good foil for SAS, lolol
I saw this and said, "How do I know that name...?"Some names I haven't seen mentioned here
--Ashley Fox
--Columnist Johnette Howard
For the love of God, please no. Can't we have anything that isn't polluted by politics?Given the success of Fox News and the weird but apparently real complaints of conservatives about ESPN, I'm actually kind of surprised FS1 hasn't tried harder to become the Fox News of sports. They already have a bunch of "politically incorrect" personalities like Cowherd, Bayless and Whitlock - if you told them to emphasize their more conservative leanings, bought some rights to NASCAR and started criticizing ESPN for being the "liberal sports media" I would think the Trump voters of the world would flock to the channel. Maybe they are already trending in this direction, or maybe it's just not viable in the sports sector. Still surprised no one has really gone for this angle, though (as annoying and depressing as it would be to everyone else).
Boy, this is so true. Just about the only time I look for FS1 is when they have a Champions league game on. I get irritated fiddling with the remote like "where the hell is that channel again.."You're missing viewing habits though. People instinctively turn ESPN on because it has had quality programming over an extended period, yes, even today. FS1 has yet to shown the ability to make any original content worth a damn that aren't a blatant attempt to copy ESPN. FS1 has live sports rights and that's about its only value prop to get people to instinctively switch from ESPN. NBC Sports was able to do this somewhat successfully by focusing on niche areas like hockey and soccer whereas FS1 has tried to be ESPN out of the box.
I love that articleI saw this and said, "How do I know that name...?"
Goes along well with this.I saw this and said, "How do I know that name...?"
Is Cossack actually disbarred? I couldn't find any references that cited as much.I guess he'll have to just go back to being a disbarred lawyer. Instead of a disbarred lawyer giving shitty analysis on teevee.
Basically the same thing you heard when NBC Sports (nee Versus) first started growing. Then they became a lot more focused. Not sure if that's a recipe for success or actually making but you can find the channel now and it's on most hotel cable packages. So it's something.Boy, this is so true. Just about the only time I look for FS1 is when they have a Champions league game on. I get irritated fiddling with the remote like "where the hell is that channel again.."
I believe he has him confused with Lester Munson.Is Cossack actually disbarred? I couldn't find any references that cited as much.
She's worth throwing in your Google Machine.I have no idea who Michelle Beadle is or if this actually applies to her, but generally speaking this seems like a fair point (i.e, the media never thinks twice about calling for a firing).
I like him and follow NASCAR pretty closely, and I had no idea he was still at ESPN. I would have guessed he was gone when they lost the NASCAR rights.Dr. Jerry Punch too. Longtime voice of NASCAR and CFB let go.
Part of the difficulty with a correction is there's more competition now. ESPN will have to bid less on future deals, which means they'll lose some stuff to NBC/Fox, which means ESPN will have less live content, which means more airtime to fill with fluff, which usually gets worse ratings than live stuff.In the big scheme of things, isn't the amount of money saved here negligible? ESPN is fucked because of the cord-cutting and rights fees. When is the correction about rights fees coming? It has to happen sooner or later.
I'm just guessing here, but it may have to do with contract timing. If they have to buy out less of some guys contracts than others, that makes it cheaper to cut those guys.The regional reporters seem so arbitrary ... the Titans reporter, the Warriors reporter, the Pelicans reporter
Somebody above noted that they wished ESPN would go back to its original format and just show sports instead of people talking.The combination of losing subscribers while paying more for content is a death spiral. The number crunchers are staring at a balance sheet that is getting uglier over time. Not paying Ed Werder or Jayson Stark is a mere drop in the bucket, but it is the easiest thing to do. I haven't watched a SportsCenter in years ... when I was younger I wouldn't miss it. That's a big part of letting talent go. People want to watch the games. The rest of it is blah blah blah. Why do you have to tune in to ESPN when Schefter will tweet it long before it gets on the air? .more importantly ..if you have your apps set up with alerts you will never miss a breaking sports story...That's a big reason talent is expendable.
I enjoyed SportsCenter back in the 90s when the shtick was genuine. Then it became a victim of its own success and the sausage factory started cranking out all these cheap facsimiles. It all became noticeably manufactured and lost its appeal.The way I remember ESPN back in the 80s was that (in between tractor pulls, world's strongest man, and arena football), the best content on ESPN was the talking. It was sports-obsessed people, with no agenda, not beholden to the pro sports leagues in any way, discussing sports.
Yep.In the big scheme of things, isn't the amount of money saved here negligible? ESPN is fucked because of the cord-cutting and rights fees. When is the correction about rights fees coming? It has to happen sooner or later.