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That's a link from April. Of last year... I think you mean this one: http://deadspin.com/gregg-popovich-requests-craig-sager-ask-him-inane-ques-1746110335
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 23:26 |
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Timby posted:Believe it or not, he's been with the network since he was 24 (I believe he's something like employee #3). In addition to being one of the few Republicans at the network, he lives an extremely clean life, which is probably a huge factor in how he still has his babyface at his age.
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 09:42 |
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Hockles posted:That's a link from April. Of last year... Aaah poo poo you're right. Got my copy-paste wrong. Thanks
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 18:01 |
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lol nice
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 18:33 |
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Hockles posted:That's a link from April. Of last year... Craig Sr is cool for refusing kid gloves despite being sick. Can I get some context?
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 07:30 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Can I get some context?
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 07:47 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Craig Sr is cool for refusing kid gloves despite being sick. ESPN has lost something like 7M subscribers over the past couple of years as more people drop cable. Simultaneously, pro sports leagues are asking for richer TV contracts and Disney is putting pressure on ESPN to cut costs. ESPN's headed toward a bad place right now and their only solution so far has been to fire people.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 16:52 |
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Anals of History posted:ESPN's headed toward a bad place right now and their only solution so far has been to fire people. To be fair, that's pretty much all the company can do. Earlier this year, they had something like 7,000 employees worldwide, and I think they badly over-extended themselves with all the new sets and facilities they've been building over the past few years (the new SportsCenter set they built last year cost something like $125 million alone) -- the company was very clearly burning through cash at a time when it should have been really looking at a long-term strategy for revenue management.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 20:40 |
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Timby posted:To be fair, that's pretty much all the company can do. Earlier this year, they had something like 7,000 employees worldwide, and I think they badly over-extended themselves with all the new sets and facilities they've been building over the past few years (the new SportsCenter set they built last year cost something like $125 million alone) -- the company was very clearly burning through cash at a time when it should have been really looking at a long-term strategy for revenue management. That's fair. Maybe a better way to put it is that we haven't seen them figure out a way to improve revenues just yet. It's hard to tell what's happening to increase money coming in aside from draining Draft Kings' advertising budget for as long as they could. I do wonder if ESPN was making a conscious effort to blow their money on amortizable expenses so they could drain the budget and justify the later firings. Like, it blows my mind (even though it really shouldn't) that no one at ESPN thought technology might mess with how they do things. It's hard to rationalize the over-extension otherwise.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 21:28 |
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I wonder if the whole set-redesign was a response to FS1 and feeling they needed a new look to keep eyeballs (considering no one watches FS1 either they've succeeded or overreacted). There's also the idea that the set is more important than the people who work on it, but this thread doesn't need to go full DnD again.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 22:28 |
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C. Everett Koop posted:I wonder if the whole set-redesign was a response to FS1 and feeling they needed a new look to keep eyeballs (considering no one watches FS1 either they've succeeded or overreacted). Nah. ESPN opened up a new state of the art complex and gave a studio in it to SC. No one would build an entirely new complex because of FS1.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 23:21 |
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Danny Kanell lost his mind on Twitter about how liberals are killing football with a fake crisis over concussions and CTE.
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# ? Dec 8, 2015 17:06 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Danny Kanell lost his mind on Twitter about how liberals are killing football with a fake crisis over concussions and CTE. PFTCommenter outed
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# ? Dec 8, 2015 17:15 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Danny Kanell lost his mind on Twitter about how liberals are killing football with a fake crisis over concussions and CTE. ESPN personalities melting down on twitter and facebook is entertaining as hell
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# ? Dec 8, 2015 17:16 |
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Danny Kanell is dumb as all hell just in general.
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# ? Dec 8, 2015 17:19 |
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Anals of History posted:That's fair. Maybe a better way to put it is that we haven't seen them figure out a way to improve revenues just yet. It's hard to tell what's happening to increase money coming in aside from draining Draft Kings' advertising budget for as long as they could. The thing to me though is that ESPN can sort of also just ride this out. Obviously slowly bleeding money isn't good for business, but they're still the A number 1 big dog on the block. They've got backing from the mouse and they're making cuts right now. Its simultaneously a bit dire, but also no time to panic either. I feel like they're just trying to stabilize...though I do feel like that new studio was kind of loving insane. I'm also kind of surprised they didn't make the decision to maybe move more of their production out of Bristol. Like, setup a new studio in Los Angeles or something.
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# ? Dec 9, 2015 08:50 |
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MourningView posted:Danny Kanell is dumb as all hell just in general. Thinks there's a "war on football", thinks "Redskins" isn't racist, thinks college athletes shouldn't be paid, he's either really stupid or the highly suggestible type
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# ? Dec 9, 2015 16:39 |
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soggybagel posted:The thing to me though is that ESPN can sort of also just ride this out. Obviously slowly bleeding money isn't good for business, but they're still the A number 1 big dog on the block. They've got backing from the mouse and they're making cuts right now. Its simultaneously a bit dire, but also no time to panic either. I feel like they're just trying to stabilize...though I do feel like that new studio was kind of loving insane. I'm also kind of surprised they didn't make the decision to maybe move more of their production out of Bristol. Like, setup a new studio in Los Angeles or something. They reworked the LA studio a few years after they did DC2.
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# ? Dec 9, 2015 17:01 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:Thinks there's a "war on football", thinks "Redskins" isn't racist, thinks college athletes shouldn't be paid, he's either really stupid or the highly suggestible type
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# ? Dec 9, 2015 17:06 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:Thinks there's a "war on football", thinks "Redskins" isn't racist, thinks college athletes shouldn't be paid, he's either really stupid or the highly suggestible type Part of me is skeptical that ESPN hot-takers actually believe what they say
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# ? Dec 9, 2015 17:24 |
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Muddy Burphy posted:Part of me is skeptical that ESPN hot-takers actually believe what they say I've been this way a while now. Skip Bayless seems like a pretty solid guy when he's off camera and I figure most of it is the whole shock jock thing where you just say whatever to get the viewers. E: Hell, Colin Cowherd makes an entire career out of poo poo like calling John Wall a friend of the family without outright saying the word.
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# ? Dec 9, 2015 17:29 |
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soggybagel posted:The thing to me though is that ESPN can sort of also just ride this out. Obviously slowly bleeding money isn't good for business, but they're still the A number 1 big dog on the block. They've got backing from the mouse and they're making cuts right now. Its simultaneously a bit dire, but also no time to panic either. I feel like they're just trying to stabilize...though I do feel like that new studio was kind of loving insane. I'm also kind of surprised they didn't make the decision to maybe move more of their production out of Bristol. Like, setup a new studio in Los Angeles or something. ESPN has a digital content problem. MLB Advanced Media (MLB, NHL, WWE, PGA), DirecTV (NFL) and Turner (NBA) already have internet platforms that are available today. ESPN has no distribution platform and there's very little content that isn't already locked up. I think even NASCAR has their own platform. To compete in the cordless future ESPN needs to build out a streaming platform (or partner with someone like Netflix or Amazon) and also somehow convince leagues that they can make more money distributing through ESPN than they can with their current partners. ESPN's non-live sports content is not going to get them the subscriber numbers they need to succeed unless they can also get exclusive rights to something like the NFL's digital rights. If they try to ride this out they are going to end up as a content producer for Disney/NBC's eventual platforms. That's going to be a much smaller much less relevant ESPN.
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# ? Dec 10, 2015 01:11 |
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They have a streaming platform called WatchESPN. They just don't offer it as a service that anyone can buy; it only comes with your tv subscription.
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# ? Dec 10, 2015 01:16 |
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ayn rand hand job posted:They reworked the LA studio a few years after they did DC2. I was thinking more moving the braintrust out of Bristol and dropping it in a bigger media market.
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# ? Dec 10, 2015 01:29 |
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Kibner posted:They have a streaming platform called WatchESPN. They just don't offer it as a service that anyone can buy; it only comes with your tv subscription. Yeah, it's really just a matter of offering it as a standalone thing. I assume right now they think it's more profitable to keep their cable partners happy so they can keep collection gigantic rights fees, but it's probably only a matter of time before they offer an over the top version of their streaming app like HBO has done.
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# ? Dec 10, 2015 17:52 |
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To me it's ridiculous that Fox Sports doesn't do a hockey show. Like, once a week 30 minutes. Hockey fans like hockey content. They hired Jay And Dan...hockey guys. Might as well use the talent rather than relegating hockey highlights on FSLive to the last half of the show. Basically if you're going to be second banana to ESPN anyways, might as well own the 2nd tier people. soggybagel fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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soggybagel posted:To me it's ridiculous that Fox Sports doesn't do a hockey show. Like, once a week 30 minutes. Hockey fans like hockey content. They hired Jay And Dan...hockey guys. Might as well use the talent rather than relegating hockey highlights on FSLive to the last half of the show.
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# ? Dec 11, 2015 02:19 |
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the talent deficit posted:To compete in the cordless future ESPN needs to build out a streaming platform (or partner with someone like Netflix or Amazon) People have already mentioned WatchESPN but live streaming is very different from the on-demand streaming that Netflix and Amazon do.
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# ? Dec 11, 2015 18:07 |
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hello I just watched the Dolph Lundgren film Dark Angel and Jay Bilas shows up as an alien ok bye
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 10:03 |
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Kirk Herbstreit got Chris Fowler back for the zombie prank during their broadcast of the Temple/ND football game
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 16:36 |
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Deadspin posted:Fox is reportedly removing Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci from the network’s MLB booth. John Smoltz will be Joe Buck’s new partner.
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 19:25 |
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Oh glorious day
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# ? Dec 22, 2015 19:27 |
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john smoltz is also a bad announcer
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 00:12 |
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Disney may have finally realized that putting the college football playoff games on New Years Eve was a terrible idea.
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# ? Dec 31, 2015 14:16 |
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DJExile posted:Disney may have finally realized that putting the college football playoff games on New Years Eve was a terrible idea. In fairness, how much of this is the Rose Bowl's fault for not willing to concede it's regular time slot? Although I don't know why they couldn't do it on January 2nd this time.
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# ? Dec 31, 2015 14:43 |
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Vertical Lime posted:In fairness, how much of this is the Rose Bowl's fault for not willing to concede it's regular time slot? Decent chunk. The Rose Bowl not being one of the games kills New Years Day since its run against the early semi-final timeslot. Disney hates it on New Years Eve, but the NCAA/CFP people refused to change it to Saturday when they were presented with a proposal tell I g them that this is a really bad idea you idiots.
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# ? Dec 31, 2015 15:00 |
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Wait the playoff games are today huh
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# ? Dec 31, 2015 15:25 |
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Vertical Lime posted:In fairness, how much of this is the Rose Bowl's fault for not willing to concede it's regular time slot? The sugar not wanting to move was a bigger problem. But neither of those really excuses moving it up to New Year's Eve instead of back to the 2nd.
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Playoff ratings were a disaster
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