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Apparently Disney is likely to buy out Comcast of their share this year
Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread
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Apparently Disney is likely to buy out Comcast of their share this year
Tribal Outkast
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It’s still funny that people are still trying to make us think they’re winning with internet plus all these streaming services. You’re literally saving a couple dollars. And now since they’re giving out streaming services with phone plans(I got Hulu and Paramount) it kinda defeats the point in stacking them shyts.Cable+
cut cords brehs
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Not everyone is buying all the streaming services. If someone is only paying for 2-3 services then they're saving more than just a couple of dollars.
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Please sell that shyt
ESPN has been ass since Disney bought that shyt.
ESPN back in the '80s/'90s was lit.
Comcast is gonna make that very painful for Disney should they want to go that route.
Only problem with that notion is that all of those services are eventually going to merge and consolidate thus creating cable all over again.
I'm not sure Disney cares all that much. Comcast has already pulled the vast majority of their on demand library from Hulu, so unless you record a show you like from one of their networks and watch it, your options tend to be limited on catching up. On some of their most popular shows, you can maybe catch the most recent season while it's airing, but that's it.
Really the only thing they've got left is pulling their channels from Hulu entirely, which I doubt they'd do, since they'd willingly be giving up subscribers for their cable networks. And even then, I imagine there's probably language in the buyout option that specifies that they can't do that for a while if they take the buyout anyway.
No Comcast is purposely trying to drive up the price of Hulu should Disney want to buy them out. They seem comfortable just sitting on their share of the ownership and collecting whatever value that gives them.
Hulu’s Value in Focus as Disney, Comcast Go Public With Negotiation Tactics
Disney is poised to buy out Comcast's remaining 33 percent stake in Hulu as early as January 2024 as top execs haggle over the worth of the U.S.-only streaming service amid a slowing subscriber market.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Going by previous people who've worked for multiple companies while at ESPN (Russillo and McMullan), it will likely be less than a year before Pablo completely dips out from ESPN. Got to be a gut punch for them though considering that he was likely going to be TK successor on PTI.
Yeah, he's likely on his way out in the next couple of years, but I don't know that they're all that hurt over it. Unless he's changed a ton since High Noon, Kornheiser preferring him to take over for him when he's finally done with PTI doesn't mean shyt to ESPN. At this point, I'm more inclined to believe that the show just ends, and they do something like slightly reformat Debatable and move it to TV from streaming without Pablo.
Pti is a dinosaur that caters to our demographic.
I was in high-school when that show started. I turn 40 in a few months. Young kids are not watching that shyt. That show will end when Tony and Mike step away.
I don't even think espn is to worried about it honestly
Only problem with that is they’d both have to step away together at the same time as TK will more then likely retire before Wilbon.
The PTI name is too valuable of a legacy for them to not yet and revamp it in some form or fashion.
I can see why he’s leaving though as ESPN is more away from his type of storytelling style especially after what they just did to OTL.
Exactly. I was a sophomore in high school when the show started, and I just turned 37 a week and change ago. It's been on for nearly two thirds of my life, and has all kinds of sentimental value. And I don't even want to watch that shyt anymore, since it's literally just two old men yelling about sports. There's no way that people younger than me have any desire to watch at this point. There's nothing for Pablo, or Bomani, or whoever to even take over at this point. Hell, the proof that audiences don't really want that anymore is there with the failure of High Noon, which was really just a dry run for their modernized PTI anyway.
I mean, at one point, Outside the Lines was a valuable property, as was The Sports Reporters. We're already circling the drain with PTI, because I don't know that I can be convinced that Kornheiser isn't still doing the show because Wilbon isn't ready to retire yet, and he's absolutely getting the Chris Berman "Emeritus" treatment once TK is gone. That period when they do something like swap out Kornheiser for Stephen A Smith and make PTI a recurring SportsCenter segment instead of a show to run out Wilbon's deal is gonna be ROUGH.