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

[Captain Crunch]

If they grooming Mark to eventually take over for Clyde, that's some big shoes to fill.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

All because he offended the Alphabet Gang.

No reason he shouldn't be coaching.

Notice, Steph, Klay, Iguodala, & all them STILL give Mark Jackson his flowers.

 

[aceboon]

No wonder she left ESPN

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

No wonder she left ESPN

No wonder other people at The Athletic are pissed about how much she's making.

 

[Blessings]

No wonder she left ESPN

I understand WOJ's value to ESPN since they actually broadcast NBA games.

What's Shams actual value to the Athletic?

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I understand WOJ's value to ESPN since they actually broadcast NBA games.

What's Shams actual value to the Athletic?

ESPN doesn't need Woj for NBA broadcast games no more than the NFL does in the case of Schefter.

They along with Shams have connected sources that drive people towards their website and content. It's all about who can get the scoop first.

The Athletic doesn't have that lead, breaking news NFL reporter and Russini as good as she is was never going to eclipse Schefter at ESPN, so I can see why they worked out the deal that they did. She learned what Josina Anderson did years ago although her sources are more player connected.

 

[Skooby]

No wonder other people at The Athletic are pissed about how much she's making.

Who's pissed?

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Who's pissed?

It’s been reported that a lot of the talent at The Athletic and even Peter King feel a way about her being the highest paid person there.

Either Peter King wrote or talked about it because I remember Mike Florio doing a story about it.

 

[Soylent Greenz]

It’s been reported that a lot of the talent at The Athletic and even Peter King feel a way about her being the highest paid person there.

Either Peter King wrote or talked about it because I remember Mike Florio doing a story about it.

So she has the white coaches,quarterbacks and offensive linemen giving her intel,cuz I can't really see the brehs confiding in her.

Josina prolly had the scoop with all things melanated.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

So she has the white coaches,quarterbacks and offensive linemen giving her intel,cuz I can't really see the brehs confiding in her.

Josina prolly had the scoop with all things melanated.

If it comes from Josina, then it is true at least from the prospective of the player. That’s why I always thought Lamar Jackson did himself a disservice by not using her as his mouthpiece over someone like SAS since she’s more trustworthy IMO.

I can appreciate her staying on code even if it meant it was only so high she could go at ESPN.

 

[jetflyinglimousineriding]

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Those numbers are a bit misleading. What are the TV viewers and how do they compare to SC and This Just In that were in the previous spots.

I don’t get why they’d even include YouTube numbers at all.

 

[jetflyinglimousineriding]

Those numbers are a bit misleading. What are the TV viewers and how do they compare to SC and This Just In that were in the previous spots.

I don’t get why they’d even include YouTube numbers at all.

The two-hour block on ESPN has topped out at 415,000 viewers over its first four weeks on the air (for the show on Friday, September 22, live in South Bend). Its lowest viewership on ESPN came just last week for the show on Thursday, September 28 (just 201,000 tuned in on ESPN).
Through the same four weeks, the full three-plus hour YouTube edition of ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ is averaging 500,000 viewers, topping out at 763,000 for the show on Wednesday, September 15, with a low viewership of 368,000 on Thursday, September 28.

Clips from McAfee’s show also rack up numbers on YouTube. ESPN’s release said that clips on YouTube, the ESPN app, and social media totaled 213 million viewers over the first month, and without tallying the numbers, I can believe it. On YouTube, 11 clips from just the last two days have averaged 144,000 views and totaled over 1.5 million views. That’s a good week for the two-hour broadcast on ESPN’s linear network, and McAfee’s YouTube channel is pulling it for two hours’ worth of clips from two days.

While the success on digital platforms is excellent, ESPN will eventually need more success on linear from McAfee. The company uploads clips from other studio shows, like ‘First Take,’ on YouTube and social media, and many of those bring in numbers comparable to or even in excess of those for McAfee’s show (one from Monday has cracked one million already). And unlike ‘The Pat McAfee Show,’ ‘First Take’ also draws impressive linear viewership. A release last week touted an average of 505,000 viewers for ‘First Take’ in September, the show’s most-watched month ever.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

No wonder she left ESPN

Shams is probably underpaid. Yikes

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

How you gone group Mina in with Kendrick Perkins? Have you actually listened to her? She’s one of the most prepared analysts on the station and does a great job of mixing grinding game tape with analytics. The fact she has former players openly gushing about how much they respect her football opinions should let you know what time it is.

They need more Mina types.

Some of you dudes need to stick to basketball posts...because anybody impressed with a woman regurgitating numbers with semi competent understanding of schematics/Xs and Os and calling her "the best to do it right now" is a clown.


There's about 3 brothers on ESPN who not only played the game but have the personality to do what Mina does and won't get that look because you hoe ass niccas are so easily impressed with a woman knowing what Cover 3 is and can spew out pressure rates and ypp numbers.