Thursday, bloody Thursday at ESPN

[DigitalDrifter]

Oh breaks my heart. I watch games on ESPN, but gave up their other crap long ago.

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

In a message sent Wednesday to ESPN employees, network president John Skipper announced the company was beginning its next round of layoffs, a long-anticipated move that will thin the ranks of ESPN’s on-air and online talent.

[Journalists fire back at ‘dirtbags reveling in ESPN’s layoffs’]

“A necessary component of managing change involves constantly evaluating how we best utilize all of our resources, and that sometimes involves difficult decisions,” Skipper wrote. “Our content strategy — primarily illustrated in recent months by melding distinct, personality-driven SportsCenter TV editions and digital-only efforts with our biggest sub-brand — still needs to go further, faster … and as always, must be efficient and nimble. Dynamic change demands an increased focus on versatility and value, and as a result, we have been engaged in the challenging process of determining the talent — anchors, analysts, reporters, writers and those who handle play-by-play — necessary to meet those demands. We will implement changes in our talent lineup this week. A limited number of other positions will also be affected and a handful of new jobs will be posted to fill various needs.”

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I love this:

"There was plenty of criticism from users who believe the network lost the thread of sports, becoming along the way “MSESPN,” as Outkick the Coverage’s Clay Travis put it. “Stick to sports” is a mantra the network has ignored, he says.

“Middle America wants to pop a beer and listen to sports talk, they don’t want to be lectured about why Caitlyn Jenner is a hero, Michael Sam is the new Jackie Robinson of sports, and Colin Kaepernick is the Rosa Parks of football,” he writes. “ESPN made the mistake of trying to make liberal social media losers happy and as a result lost millions of viewers.”
Journalists fire back at ‘dirtbags reveling in ESPN’s layoffs’

 

[TomParks]

Only going to get worse as more and more ditch cable and satellite tv

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Who would have guessed being the MSNBC of sports would be a bad business model?

 

[Moonglow]

Only going to get worse as more and more ditch cable and satellite tv

I've been cable free a year and the world is still going to collide with an asteroid...

 

[Iceweasel]

Only going to get worse as more and more ditch cable and satellite tv

One of the reasons we are cord cutting is because of companies like ESPN. They charge the providers $7 for EACH subscriber.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Hope the layoffs at ESPN, are the ones' that think the "P" in ESPN stands for politics.

 

[Moonglow]

They had some commentators that couldn't pronounce certains words..

 

[DigitalDrifter]

They had some commentators that couldn't pronounce certains words..

A good deal of the commentators are ex-jocks, and not formally trained wordsmiths.

 

[mudwhistle]

Oh breaks my heart. I watch games on ESPN, but gave up their other crap long ago.

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

In a message sent Wednesday to ESPN employees, network president John Skipper announced the company was beginning its next round of layoffs, a long-anticipated move that will thin the ranks of ESPN’s on-air and online talent.

[Journalists fire back at ‘dirtbags reveling in ESPN’s layoffs’]

“A necessary component of managing change involves constantly evaluating how we best utilize all of our resources, and that sometimes involves difficult decisions,” Skipper wrote. “Our content strategy — primarily illustrated in recent months by melding distinct, personality-driven SportsCenter TV editions and digital-only efforts with our biggest sub-brand — still needs to go further, faster … and as always, must be efficient and nimble. Dynamic change demands an increased focus on versatility and value, and as a result, we have been engaged in the challenging process of determining the talent — anchors, analysts, reporters, writers and those who handle play-by-play — necessary to meet those demands. We will implement changes in our talent lineup this week. A limited number of other positions will also be affected and a handful of new jobs will be posted to fill various needs.”

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

ESPN is the MSNBC of sports....

 

[Moonglow]

Oh breaks my heart. I watch games on ESPN, but gave up their other crap long ago.

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

In a message sent Wednesday to ESPN employees, network president John Skipper announced the company was beginning its next round of layoffs, a long-anticipated move that will thin the ranks of ESPN’s on-air and online talent.

[Journalists fire back at ‘dirtbags reveling in ESPN’s layoffs’]

“A necessary component of managing change involves constantly evaluating how we best utilize all of our resources, and that sometimes involves difficult decisions,” Skipper wrote. “Our content strategy — primarily illustrated in recent months by melding distinct, personality-driven SportsCenter TV editions and digital-only efforts with our biggest sub-brand — still needs to go further, faster … and as always, must be efficient and nimble. Dynamic change demands an increased focus on versatility and value, and as a result, we have been engaged in the challenging process of determining the talent — anchors, analysts, reporters, writers and those who handle play-by-play — necessary to meet those demands. We will implement changes in our talent lineup this week. A limited number of other positions will also be affected and a handful of new jobs will be posted to fill various needs.”

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

ESPN is the MSNBC of sports....

It is owned by Disney and Hearst....

 

[blastoff]

Sorry to see Chris Berman survived the cut. He's become a caricature of himself and should go all away.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Oh breaks my heart. I watch games on ESPN, but gave up their other crap long ago.

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

In a message sent Wednesday to ESPN employees, network president John Skipper announced the company was beginning its next round of layoffs, a long-anticipated move that will thin the ranks of ESPN’s on-air and online talent.

[Journalists fire back at ‘dirtbags reveling in ESPN’s layoffs’]

“A necessary component of managing change involves constantly evaluating how we best utilize all of our resources, and that sometimes involves difficult decisions,” Skipper wrote. “Our content strategy — primarily illustrated in recent months by melding distinct, personality-driven SportsCenter TV editions and digital-only efforts with our biggest sub-brand — still needs to go further, faster … and as always, must be efficient and nimble. Dynamic change demands an increased focus on versatility and value, and as a result, we have been engaged in the challenging process of determining the talent — anchors, analysts, reporters, writers and those who handle play-by-play — necessary to meet those demands. We will implement changes in our talent lineup this week. A limited number of other positions will also be affected and a handful of new jobs will be posted to fill various needs.”

ESPN’s massive round of layoffs hit familiar faces, including Andy Katz and Britt McHenry

Sleaze With Degrees

These Diploma Dumbos think they are entitled to change our language, but only show how worthless their education is. They use RBI for RBIs, "because those are the initial letters of Runs Batted In," being too ignorant to know that the acronym is pluralized by adding "s" to the singular form, not be initializing the plural. They don't know the past participles, so instead of saying, "If (the quarterback) had run with the ball, he would have made a first down," they cover up the worthlessness of their cram-and-forget college education with, "He runs with the ball, he makes a first down."

One former player got fired from his job as an announcer. So he went to college not to learn anything, as it turned out, but to get that phony credential. He came back talking the same illiterate way he had before going to college. Anyway, you can tell by their dumb-jock grammar that they would preach dumb-jock politics.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

They had some commentators that couldn't pronounce certains words..

A good deal of the commentators are ex-jocks, and not formally trained wordsmiths.

Sniffing Jockstraps Causes Brain Damage

"Formally trained" means being a non-retentive sponge for babbling professors just to get the grade. The only education worth anything is self-education. The bitter journalists who called us dirtbags for gloating over the downfall of these celebrity jurinalists are probably formally trained. But they act like lonely misfits desperate for a group to belong to exactly because of the childish way they got their training.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Linda Cohn says politics ‘definitely a percentage’ of ESPN’s problems

Longtime ESPN anchor Linda Cohn believes the network’s embrace of political issues is at least partially to blame for falling subscription rates.

“That is definitely a percentage of it,” Cohn said, when asked Thursday on New York radio show “Bernie and Sid” if viewers were tuning out because of politics, according to the New York Post. “I don’t know how big a percentage, but if anyone wants to ignore that fact, they’re blind.”

ESPN has lost 10 million subscribers over the past five years as “cord-cutting” allows viewers to cancel their cable subscriptions in favor of online streaming services. At the same time, ESPN’s programming costs have been steadily rising.

Linda Cohn says politics to blame for ESPN’s problems

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

ESPN was great at first as it allowed the oportunity to see lots of sports that were previously only read about in newspapers.
Michigan State's Greg Kelser and Magic Johnson (and I and probably many others) thought Larry Bird was a black guy until we actually saw him play on TV.
ESPN changed all of that.
What sucks about ESPN (and most sports reporting in general anymore) is that they made sports reporting into a cartoon performed by failed comedians. Berman being the epitome.