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

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and as little as I watch ESPN outside of the live sports these days, those other 3 channels you mentioned don't carry any sports I'm interested in, thus I NEVER watch them whatsoever.
so if you don't wanna watch anything outside of the actual games (thus validating why a channel would pay so much for it), why was everyone and their mother hoping a network would develop a sports channel to compete with ESPN?
 

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How's the ratings tho?ATH,PTI have been in the same slots for 15 years.Im sure Highly Questionable does better then ATH maybe it's time to put HQ in 5 PM slot.They do need to cut back on the NFL.:mindblown: at losing 600,000 subscribers in a month
 

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Having Lil Wayne and Rae Sremmurd on air is corny as fukk and pandering. Get these lame music artists off the damn network if they arent singing and rapping.

THANK YOU!!!

I genuinely hate how they trot these lame ass rappers out, especially Lebatard, who I generally agree with about a lot of things, but it's so cringeworthy watching his father reciting that c00n ass garbage between breaks & he's always asking these dumb ass nikkaz about their ghetto stories and shyt.
beadle bout to be given the :camby:

lawd that woman is aging terribly :scusthov:


would still hit tho :manny: :takedat: :whoa:

I know, I got a big screen HDTV & bruh, watching her in HD is like:picard:. I mean, 2 years ago, she was still kinda :ehh:, but that broad is deteriorating.

They should've kept Charissa.
 

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Kuharsky got fired damn didn't think I would have heard of anybody. Just assumed it would be people I never see on those sportscenters or writers. Kuharsky is a card carrying member of team:mjpls: but he has a radio show and he is from a rich successful family so he will be fine. I think his brother is a big wig at Food network. He hated so hard on Vince Young from day one. Actually he hated Cam Newton because he reminded him of Vince Young. He still hates on Cam even after the Super Bowl run. A lot of people heard about him when Deadspin did a story about him complaining about a Migos song played at an NFL game.
He is also an NFL hall of fame voter and before Kuharsky was on the voting board he said even though Steve McNair has the numbers to make it into the hall of fame he didn't see him as a hall of famer. So it will be hard to get McNair in the hall with this guy in the room hating on him.:snoop:

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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They should give Corey Holcomb a show so he can give his take of athletes and baby mamas. The 5150 Chronicles.
Corey was talking about Isaiah Thomas(hall of famer) gay son being in the news tonight on the 5150. Disney mutes Dan Lebatard sometimes so Corey speaking his mind would cause all the feminists at ESPN to walkout in protest until he was fired.
 

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Don't forget about the CFB playoffs contract which has been absolutely killing them

But them hoes deserve it. They take all the bowl / playoff games off ABC and put them on espn? So you get less advertisment money and less viewers? So all them bull shyt shows on ABC gonna do better than the national championship game?

Espin tried to do that shyt to get more folks to get cable in order to see the games. But that shyt is back firing.

As much as I want ESPN to die a slow death.......I know we are a long time away. Back in 2015 I read that ESPN was the most profitable or one of the most profitable companies hoe ass disney owned.
 
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Kuharsky got fired damn didn't think I would have heard of anybody. Just assumed it would be people I never see on those sportscenters or writers. Kuharsky is a card carrying member of team:mjpls: but he has a radio show and he is from a rich successful family so he will be fine. I think his brother is a big wig at Food network. He hated so hard on Vince Young from day one. Actually he hated Cam Newton because he reminded him of Vince Young. He still hates on Cam even after the Super Bowl run. A lot of people heard about him when Deadspin did a story about him complaining about a Migos song played at an NFL game.
He is also an NFL hall of fame voter and before Kuharsky was on the voting board he said even though Steve McNair has the numbers to make it into the hall of fame he didn't see him as a hall of famer. So it will be hard to get McNair in the hall with this guy in the room hating on him.:snoop:

Glad this hoe got fired. Real talk homie dude been a hating ass bytch for years.

I hope that other bytch Tim Hasselbeck gets fired too. I will never forget how that hoe made up lies on mcnabb back when that shyt went down with rat fact shannhan in DC.
 

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Corey was talking about Isaiah Thomas(hall of famer) gay son being in the news tonight on the 5150. Disney mutes Dan Lebatard sometimes so Corey speaking his mind would cause all the feminists at ESPN to walkout in protest until he was fired.

Coreys not that funny anyways.
 

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Espn should cut a couple of those other stations they have, espnu and espn classic. Then show that content on espn 1 and 2. They also might want to cut down some of those sports centers and do more original shows, maybe a reality show staring NFL and nba rookies. Or as someone else suggested, doing more 30 for 30 mini series.

It also wouldn't hurt for some of them to switch up the topics. You have a 24 hour cycle going with literally every on air personality answering the same exact questions giving nearly the same exact scripted opinion. By the time pti comes on I'm about exhausted hearing the same opinion on every sports topic.
 
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