ESPN adding MLBN Intentional Talk to their afternoon lineup
https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/857609175517548545
Makes sense given how many MLB reporters they cut.
ESPN adding MLBN Intentional Talk to their afternoon lineup
https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/857609175517548545
ESPN adding MLBN Intentional Talk to their afternoon lineup
https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/857609175517548545
Does Coachman still have a job?
This post is wrong in so many ways. NHL not being on ESPN has marginalized the sport so much in this country. Most people in the US don't remember hockey even exists at this point.
This is a real good chance for the big streaming services to grab up established talent. Amazon,Netflix, and even Twitter have a ton of possibilities with sports, so I'm hoping they grab some talent. HBO could as well, although I'm not sure if they would devote more airtime to sports than they already do. Just imagining actual sports coverage that isn't dependent on advertisements, product placements, or (hopefully) made-up drama would be a blast from the past.
ESPN adding MLBN Intentional Talk to their afternoon lineup
https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/857609175517548545
Does Coachman still have a job?
ESPN adding MLBN Intentional Talk to their afternoon lineup
https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/857609175517548545
i enjoy listening to stephen a smith.
I liked watching skip and stephen a smith everyday.
Hockey being on ESPN wouldn't have helped the sport much regardless. European guys playing ice soccer has a limited audience. And to actually play it is much more difficult and costly than every other major sport.
Britt is gone, impound workers rejoice.
ESPN firing still ongoing?
ESPN firing still ongoing?
Oh, so Wilbon was right. He probably had info that wasn't supposed to be out yet, given that Britt had yet to comment on it.
Just listen to Petros and Money. How anyone can honestly listen to Marcelus and his show now, especially without Max is crazy.Its the worst show I have ever heard, next to Marcelus, jesus when Max Kellerman left LA, our radio has gone to shit. Shit morning show, shit drive home show. Anytime Wiley opens his fkn mouth I want to throw up.
With his Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh. Stopped listening a long time ago. Terrible shit. How does Keyshawn and Marcelus still have a job, and survived this purge is beyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyond me.
It will go more and more towards leagues broadcasting their own stuff. NFL Network, NBA Network, Big 10 Network, etc... With their own websites and apps.
Although I don't completely agree with this whole idea that they're trying to get rid of everyone that isn't liberal, there is certainly some truth to it.
They were never going to get rid of Sal Paolantonio or Linda Cohn, regardless of them getting paid significantly more than their counterparts. Mind you, I am talking exclusively bigger names/bigger salaries here. There were of course smaller names who got laid off yesterday that coincide with modern day and progressive philosophies, but you can't be shocked that it was Trent Dilfer, Ed Werder and Danny Kanell who got the axe.
I understand this doesn't matter to most of us. Just saying that I think there is some truth to it.
Should've taken High Heat instead of IT.
Well I meant more as to take it off of MLB Network programming. I can sit through IT but having to hear Chris Russo flap his gums for an hour just isn't possible.No, fuck that blowhard.
So Ed Werder is considered a big conservative now? And is Jay Crawford and Doug Glanville not liberals?
The idea that his purging has anything to do with some liberal agenda is straight up pizza-gate/bowling green massacre level paranoia bullshit. These cuts have been coming for months if not years.
So, then, what was the point? The memo released this morning by ESPN president John Skipper is instructive. It was hollow and buzzword-laden in the precise way that is meant to speak to Disney investors who want to be assured that ESPN is still capable of navigating changes in technology and fan behavior in order to continue to deliver quality, breakthrough content. Thats what today appears to have been really aboutassuring Disney stakeholders that ESPN is taking things very seriously and is prepared to keep itself lean and competitive. Dont think too much about how were going to continue to pay rights fees with sustained subscriber loss! Were making cuts! We have a handle on things!
I'm not going to argue over something as silly as this. By no means were these firings exclusively due to political views, however, it's possible that it may have had a factor on certain personalities. As someone mentioned, they were going to happen regardless. I brought it up not as a new idea, but because it's been floating around heavily on the internet.
The weirdest thing about ESPN is that their website has worsened in the last year.
I used to love visiting ESPN New York -- it was my homepage for all things New York sports. But ever since the recent redesign, reading content is impossible. I just want my key headlines for the day and breaking news, goshdarnit!
ESPN should buy Yahoo Sports, let them run the website.
The One and Done™;234916192 said:Not ever excited about people losing jobs but I'm very happy I don't have to suffer through another Trent Dilfer speech. Fuck that guy.
I can remember the last time I watched ESPN, it's just not very often. I work from home and will often have a TV muted on just to have something other than spreadsheets in my peripheral vision and it's almost never on ESPN (or FS1 for that matter.) The endless talking head shows are unbearable. It's on beIN, BTN, Comcast, MSG, FS2, one of the Fox regionals... hell, I'm more likely to have Cyclone.tv or the SEC channel on than ESPN (which is hard to swallow as a diehard Iowa/B1G guy.) Heck, as I alluded to earlier in the thread, I'm even more likely to be watching a YouTube video of my old lacrosse team or some random Ultimate game.I can't remember the last time I watched ESPN. I watch soccer on bien, FS1 & 2 and nbcsn, Football on local channels, hockey on nbcsn and csn, baseball on local networks, don't care about basketball. What else is left, stupid analysts yelling at each other and news.
I can't remember the last time I watched ESPN. I watch soccer on bien, FS1 & 2 and nbcsn, Football on local channels, hockey on nbcsn and csn, baseball on local networks, don't care about basketball. What else is left, stupid analysts yelling at each other and news.
The weirdest thing about ESPN is that their website has worsened in the last year.
I used to love visiting ESPN New York -- it was my homepage for all things New York sports. But ever since the recent redesign, reading content is impossible. I just want my key headlines for the day and breaking news, goshdarnit!
ESPN should buy Yahoo Sports, let them run the website.
I've heard alot of people say this too! I don't visit the website ever, but a couple a guys at my job HATE the new redesign.
ESPN adding MLBN Intentional Talk to their afternoon lineup
https://twitter.com/globechadfinn/status/857609175517548545
I'm not going to argue over something as silly as this. By no means were these firings exclusively due to political views, however, it's possible that it may have had a factor on certain personalities.
As someone mentioned, they were going to happen regardless. I brought it up not as a new idea, but because it's been floating around heavily on the internet.
The One and Done;234916192 said:Not ever excited about people losing jobs but I'm very happy I don't have to suffer through another Trent Dilfer speech. Fuck that guy.
I'm not going to argue over something as silly as this. By no means were these firings exclusively due to political views, however, it's possible that it may have had a factor on certain personalities.
As someone mentioned, they were going to happen regardless. I brought it up not as a new idea, but because it's been floating around heavily on the internet.
There is a lot of dumb shit floated around the internet. That has zero baring on if it's true or not.
Look who ESPN is turning the network over to. If you take Van Pelt, Smith, Hill, Greenberg, Beadle, Dan LeBatard, and Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre (who likely have a forthcoming show) as, broadly, representing the network's new core cast, ESPN is looking less white and less male every day, a trend that will certainly continue. And, broadly speaking, these people are liberal.
This last is a point a lot of the network's dumbest critics have pointed to as a reason for ESPN's decline, and even levied as a charge of sorts. It's true, of course, if not necessarily for the reasons those that are making it think it is. Former New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent once titled a column ”Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?," and answered the question in the first line: ”Of course it is." He would later regret his flippancy, but the basic argument was sound: The Times' viewpoint was (and is) urban, northeast, and educated, and members of those groups generally skew liberal.
The same is broadly true of the most prominent and talented ESPNers, and if the network is going to build shows around their personalities, that has to be at least acknowledged, if not embraced. If ESPN wants Bomani Jones, a genuine superstar talent, to be Bomani Jones, they have to be comfortable with him unleashing his takes on TV and on Twitter. Disney isn't ordering up lefty takes—they'd be delighted if Jones could connect to audiences the same way while offering up conservative ones—but he wouldn't be Bomani Jones if he did that. Allowing their best talents to be themselves is a strategy that makes sense for ESPN. It's also tempered by the conservatism inherent in being, still, not just the most powerful media operation in its sphere (if not outright) on the planet, but part of a still vaster corporation that works according to the dictates of a capitalist industry.
ESPN wasn't covering Hockey when it was making money.Hockey being on ESPN wouldn't have helped the sport much regardless. European guys playing ice soccer has a limited audience. And to actually play it is much more difficult and costly than every other major sport.
ESPN wasn't covering Hockey when it was making money.