Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread

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Drop wack ass mnf. NFL keeps screwing them every year and thet pay a grip.


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they should just cut entire programming. Space out the sportscenter shows, they literally have sportscenter on 24/7. Cut some of the high school shyt out, no one cares.

They'd be fine though if they just didn't get their chain took by the NBA and NFL though. Especially the damn NFL. there were like 2 watchable NFL games on ESPN the entire year.

So you don't want them showing other sports yet you wish they didn't spend so much on the NBA and NFL. What do you want them to show?
 

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true but I don't think the other networks are locked into these mindbogglingly bad contracts like ESPN is.
Lets not act like ESPN is going broke. Disney just doesn't want to adjust their earning expectations for ESPN after 35 years of making every cable subscriber pay for it when most didn't watch it. They want to keep the same numbers coming in even if it means laying off talent. But what still brings viewers to ESPN? Those live sports that FS1, CBS, NBC don't have so there's only so far they can rise. FS1 got a nice bump when they were broadcasting the Cubs in the playoffs last year but that isn't happening again. NBC only has Hockey that no one else wanted.
 

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Bonami is that dude. He only loses me when he goes on his black feminist shyt. He always been kinda suspect tho.... Dude has lived in Atl, Charlotte and Miami and never been seen with a female? :mjgrin:
:manny:Man I don't care about all that shyt. I just like to hear him clown cacs I could care less what he does away from the show.
 

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Here come the ESPN firings, worse than we thought


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The mass firings can turn into a blaze.

The 40 to 50 pink slips that ESPN insider Jim Miller expected to be dished out may escalate to about 70 at the Worldwide Leader, according to the Sporting News. Talent from all over — from front-facing TV personalities to online writers — is in jeopardy as parent company Disney looks to slash costs.

“This could be a bloodbath,” one source said, according to the report. And the carnage is coming soon: ESPN will start its Bristol-based layoffs as soon as Wednesday, according to Sports Illustrated.

The writing has been on the wall for years with the sports entertainment behemoth dealing with declining revenues as more viewers cut the cord. The first victim in ESPN’s far-flung coverage was NFL reporter Paul Kuharsky, who announced Monday he will be let go in July. Former Mets beat writer Adam Rubin said in a Q&A last month that he jumped ship after ESPN told him he would be a casualty of the layoffs.

In response to the grim reaper’s presence around campus, ESPN personalities have begun bargaining. Network anchors, according to Sporting News, have talked with management about taking pay cuts rather than facing the ax. The success of the compromises is not clear, but much of ESPN talent wants to make it understood they enjoy working there — and lack a fallback. There are on-air faces who make from $1.5 million to $3 million, Miller said, and lesser pay with the same exposure is tempting.


ESPN reportedly has adopted the painful euphemism “right-sizing” to address the firings, a corporate sanitation that paints mass layoffs as nothing more than a company finding efficiency. Disney’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call comes on May 9, and its presentation to ad buyers follows on May 16. If the layoffs begin Wednesday, expect them to end by then.



 

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XM? They like to throw money at people maybe they build theres sports brand(IDK if they have sports radio shows) or if espn are partners with them.. Everything in the form of a podcast too.. :beli:
I havnt turned espn on in a good two yrs..
I go to bleacher report or nfl network thats it :ehh:
 

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Here come the ESPN firings, worse than we thought


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The mass firings can turn into a blaze.

The 40 to 50 pink slips that ESPN insider Jim Miller expected to be dished out may escalate to about 70 at the Worldwide Leader, according to the Sporting News. Talent from all over — from front-facing TV personalities to online writers — is in jeopardy as parent company Disney looks to slash costs.

“This could be a bloodbath,” one source said, according to the report. And the carnage is coming soon: ESPN will start its Bristol-based layoffs as soon as Wednesday, according to Sports Illustrated.

The writing has been on the wall for years with the sports entertainment behemoth dealing with declining revenues as more viewers cut the cord. The first victim in ESPN’s far-flung coverage was NFL reporter Paul Kuharsky, who announced Monday he will be let go in July. Former Mets beat writer Adam Rubin said in a Q&A last month that he jumped ship after ESPN told him he would be a casualty of the layoffs.

In response to the grim reaper’s presence around campus, ESPN personalities have begun bargaining. Network anchors, according to Sporting News, have talked with management about taking pay cuts rather than facing the ax. The success of the compromises is not clear, but much of ESPN talent wants to make it understood they enjoy working there — and lack a fallback. There are on-air faces who make from $1.5 million to $3 million, Miller said, and lesser pay with the same exposure is tempting.


ESPN reportedly has adopted the painful euphemism “right-sizing” to address the firings, a corporate sanitation that paints mass layoffs as nothing more than a company finding efficiency. Disney’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call comes on May 9, and its presentation to ad buyers follows on May 16. If the layoffs begin Wednesday, expect them to end by then.


So they just straight up told dude they were going to lay him off...before they actually laid him off :picard:
 
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