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

[muzikfrk75]

I rocked with jay

Cold Pizza

 

[winb83]

Why should they do this when this is the main reason people watch ESPN in the first place

Because it cost too much. They lost 12 million subscribers over 5 years. each of those people were paying on average 7-8 a month for their service. Billions lost because subscribers are dropping their service and as time goes on it'll get worse.

You really trying to pay the NBA and other leagues all that money to show their games as you bleed out subscribers on a platform that's days are numbered?

They can do their talk shows and highlights online with targeted ads and let somebody else pay money to show the games.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Hopefully Danny Kanell gets cut.

 

[Dreamchaser]

What would fox gain? terrible contracts that if ESPN went under they might be able to get at a cheaper price? Redundent infrastructure they already have built?
Only company I could buying them would be a internet company like yahoo, which isn't touching it or google/hulu/netflix

Yahoo won't buy them nor will any other internet company for that matter. The only internet company that would buy them is Apple, but I think Apple would buy Disney out right and not just ESPN. Fox is looking for content, plus ESPN is still a strong brand with value, you just have to give credit to the NCAA, MLB, NFL, and NBA on negotiate good contracts.

 

[keond]

Hopefully Danny Kanell gets cut.

He did

 

[Morethan1]

They let Hannah Storm go

That's not true

 

[Absolut]

I actually think they'll make just as much money (or more) going to streaming platforms....the amount of data amazon (prime), google (youtube), and Facebook have on their users is immense. The advertising dollars spent there will have such a higher ROI, companies would love this - stop wasting time advertising to people who don't care. When I watch the nfl now, I see companies using sexy women to sell shyt i don't care about - trucks, beer, power tools, cheeseburgers, wranglers . This current model can't account for the female viewer or vegan or new parent watching, yet if I'm a prime member and watch on amazon - they know damn near everything i buy, browse, add to wish lists, etc. That tailored ad experience is better for customers and advertisers. The value of that alone will help keep the cost of rights inflated. Let alone any subscription fee they might charge for access to games

but theres not enough people watching say the nba to make up the difference of literally everyone watching cable tv subsidizing the league by giving companies like espn/turner billions for them to give the nba and not watching a second of the product. tailoring ads to the microscopic set of fans who care enough to order season long nba league passes wont make up that earnings gap, and it wont even be close. 100 million folks had cable a few years back. 87 million have espn right now. how many league passes would amazon/facebook.youtube sell combined? few million tops? probably less. right now 87 million people pay to watch the nba, and only a couple million usually do on a nightly basis

 

[David_TheMan]

Yahoo won't buy them nor will any other internet company for that matter. The only internet company that would buy them is Apple, but I think Apple would buy Disney out right and not just ESPN. Fox is looking for content, plus ESPN is still a strong brand with value, you just have to give credit to the NCAA, MLB, NFL, and NBA on negotiate good contracts.

Disney got no reason to sell outright, but yeah I could see Disney packaging ESPN to apple that would work and it would give Apple the content they want.
Fox wants content they just need to wait for ESPN to falter though and then get the content at reduced price, no need to absorb those shytty deals that ESPN made.
I don't tknow if I should give credit to the leagues when ESPN was outbidding itself

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

but I think Apple would buy Disney out right

 

[MikelArteta]

NBA ate off the traditional tv is dead cuz of pvrs and streaming but not sports lie

NBA players gonna be making NHl money next tv deal

NBA and NFL players need to brace for the drop in salary cap due to the lack of money from TV deals.
NFL player really need to be prepping, but knowing them they'll be unprepared, strike and come back begging or take the first deal presented because rent is due.

 

[Skooby]

They let Hannah Storm go

Nah, she's still there. He role will be reduced though:

Additionally, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Karl Ravech, Ryen Russillo, and Hannah Storm will see their roles “significantly reduced.” THR originally reported that ESPN would allow SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross’s contract to expire, but has since walked that back.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

but theres not enough people watching say the nba to make up the difference of literally everyone watching cable tv subsidizing the league by giving companies like espn/turner billions for them to give the nba and not watching a second of the product. tailoring ads to the microscopic set of fans who care enough to order season long nba league passes wont make up that earnings gap, and it wont even be close. 100 million folks had cable a few years back. 87 million have espn right now. how many league passes would amazon/facebook.youtube sell combined? few million tops? probably less. right now 87 million people pay to watch the nba, and only a couple million usually do on a nightly basis

Breh, most of them won't be selling league passes, it will be the broadcast model, you got an account on the platform, you're all good. AD dollars are how broadcast stations make money on what they paid to air games, it will be the same for these online properties except advertisers will pay more per spot (even if buying fewer spots) because of how targeted their spend will be.

You're definitely going to see a huge distribution of league rights in the next contracts, no network is going to go out its way to be the primary rights holder. I fully expect to see amazon, google, hulu, apple, possibly netflix and Facebook end up with games in addition to the abc/TNT/espn's

 

[MikelArteta]

His severance would have been Humongous

Chris Berman fat ass retired just in time....

 

[Biscayne]

Soooooooo many people on twitter pissed that the black on air personalities werent axed (Mike, Jemelle, Stephen and Bomani) and saying this is because ESPN promotes left leaning politics.

The across twitter with people like Barstool Sports and Clay Travis trying to give hot takes

Those Cacs at barstool been on that...

 

[David_TheMan]

NBA ate off the traditional tv is dead cuz of pvrs and streaming but not sports lie

NBA players gonna be making NHl money next tv deal

NBA is a global sport so they have that going for them, unlike the NFL