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

[Rigby.]

We really need to return to pre-24 hour TV for virtually every network. MTV doesn't even have 12 hours worth of worthwhile content, and these nikkas gotta pretend to have shyt to play for West Virginians or Montanites at 3AM? cmon man

 

[RammerJammer]

Half of the Get Up cast is tbh.

Sam Acho and Heather Dinich can go honestly

 

[Jplaya2023]

Pat Mcafee must be the 92 Michael Jordan of podcasting to continue to fire people and affect their families

 

[VegetasHairline]

I like the hosts they have on NBA Radio. I think they are much better than the local guys and others with podcasts.

Steve Philips is pretty good on MLB Network in the mornings.

MLB Network is EASILY the best network when it comes to covering their respective sport.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Nothing of value was lost.

 

[darealvelle]

Nothing of value was lost.

Dude stayed hating on my squad. fukk him

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Bruh, it's crazy.

ESPN is mostly just people at desks arguing about dumb shyt most of the day, broken up by the occasional SportsCenter, documentary, or live game.

ESPN2 is just replays of shyt that ran on ESPN two an hour or two earlier.

All the random sports you've never even heard of, but would probably waste a half hour or hour at least passively watching (you know, the stuff ESPN2 was originally for) is now on ESPNews, but damn near 40% of the screen space is the Bottom Line, and betting info, so the viewing experience is shyt.

It's crazy to think that the biggest company with the most money to burn in the sports world could let their channel lineup turn into shyt.

The problem they have is the problem corporations always have.

They overexpanded

They should've never gone beyond ESPN & ESPN2

They do do that it’s just nobody watches

I mean I used to love Baseball I used to follow it just as closely as I did the NFL and the NBA but I just don’t anymore

Alot of people are like that now

They have all these channels they have to fill it up with shyt that‘s the problem

There’s not enough stuff to talk about that people care about thats why they talk about the same shyt over and over

You may say you tired of the NFL and LeBron but the numbers say otherwise

But it becomes a self-fufilling prophecy.

You train your audience to only care about a few things and then you have no choice but to talk about those things over & over again.

They've got to retrain the audience.

There's a whole country full of sports going on.

I mean, there's millions of baseball, boxing, MMA, golf, & tennis fans out there.

There's all kinds of stories out there going on at all times, but ESPN chose to focus on a few things and now are trapped & can't talk about anything else.

I almost felt like they were rooting against Jokic & The Nuggets because they've been intentionally downplaying him.

Shohei Ohtani is doing shyt in baseball that nobody's done since Babe Ruth 100 years ago.

It's pure laziness that they're not spending time talking about it.

 

[Rev]

 

[Blessings]

A lil dash of hate from Marcellus Wiley

 

[Rell84shots]

ESPN hasn't been good since 2010. Just go to YouTube and see how different it was from then to now. The fact that the "worldwide leader in sports" is now the last place to go to when you want to hear about sports is a damn embarrassment.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

With all honesty, she‘s probably going to win that lawsuit and her co-workers previous comments (like Nicole Briscoe) are going to help her do it. She got pulled from the Women’s summit because of those comments and her co-workers essentially corroborated that she got suspended and even mentioned that they wanted her gone

With that being said, she’s really tempting her job security eventhough she’s needed as the “Conservative“ voice of the network.

 

[beenz]

We really need to return to pre-24 hour TV for virtually every network. MTV doesn't even have 12 hours worth of worthwhile content, and these nikkas gotta pretend to have shyt to play for West Virginians or Montanites at 3AM? cmon man

Yeah, but what they gonna fill the rest of their hours with when they are out of content? They cannot sell infomercials like the 90's, cuz no one is putting up with that type of advertising in 2023.

 

[AKM-95]

Yeah, but what they gonna fill the rest of their hours with when they are out of content? They cannot sell infomercials like the 90's, cuz no one is putting up with that type of advertising in 2023.

I think they already started the wave they are gonna start getting more podcasters and online content creators. The thing is most folks are cool with on-demand content consumption and are not used to appointment style/scheduled tv viewing.

 

[beenz]

I think they already started the wave they are gonna start getting more podcasters and online content creators. The thing is most folks are cool with on-demand content consumption and are not used to appointment style/scheduled tv viewing.

I don't get it. so they take YT'ers and put them on tv instead? I still don't get the strategy.

 

[jay83]

Throwback.