The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

[Biddco]

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How ESPN ditched Journalism and followed Skip Bayless to the Altar of Tebow.

Is that the one??

No, but it is along the same lines. THe one I am thinking of is a Awful Announcing blog post.

[Bomber]

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ESPY ad with RGIII. Well done, except, ZERO mention of the Stanley Cup Final. I know, I know, ESPN hates on the NHL, but really, not one mention? Sad.

[bigmrg74]

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/...ghts-show.html


Cannot seem to find the critique of SportsCenter and how it has changed over the last couple of years. I'll keeping looking.

How ESPN ditched Journalism and followed Skip Bayless to the Altar of Tebow.

Is that the one??

[bigmrg74]

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That's the rub, isn't it? Repetition and over-saturation seems to be the key for SC.

Right, bringing up a story once an hour cycle is enough.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

A-Fookin'-greed.

And now that I've finally been able to read the awful announcing article, that's basically the point they were trying to make. The demand for a straight highlights show isn't there (as much as I loved The Lights before its hiatus, and as much a I'm sure I'll hate it when the retooled version comes back... I'm the minority), and people do want some additional insight. But there's a difference between more insight and the endless loop of tripe ESPN tries to force down you throat.

[The Rube]

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That's the rub, isn't it? Repetition and over-saturation seems to be the key for SC.

A-Fookin'-greed.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

I love the pure highlights shows with one added thing: a brief breakdown of the play when necessary. Example: a WR gets wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open on a TD catch. Break it down on how he got that wide open? Blown coverage? DB slipped on the field? What? That sorta thing. Has to be brief, though, and not beaten to death by 10 different angles and analysts.

That's the rub, isn't it? Repetition and over-saturation seems to be the key for SC.

[The Rube]

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I love the pure highlights shows with one added thing: a brief breakdown of the play when necessary. Example: a WR gets wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open on a TD catch. Break it down on how he got that wide open? Blown coverage? DB slipped on the field? What? That sorta thing. Has to be brief, though, and not beaten to death by 10 different angles and analysts.

[MountieBoyOz]

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I guess we're the only ones who want highlight shows:

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/...ghts-show.html


Cannot seem to find the critique of SportsCenter and how it has changed over the last couple of years. I'll keeping looking.

That's why I hope the two guys from TSN (Which is miles better than ESPN.) can bring their magic to Fox Sports 1. I wish I could get TSN just for the awesome Top 10s they churn out on a daily basis.

[Biddco]

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I guess we're the only ones who want highlight shows:

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/...ghts-show.html


Cannot seem to find the critique of SportsCenter and how it has changed over the last couple of years. I'll keeping looking.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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I still watch ESPn for live sporting events and only for that, so I can't ***** about the most hated aspects of their coverage anymore. Can't gripe about their awful balance of coverage on Sportscenter and the mess that is their talking head shows if I don't watch them.

But having the Wimbledon championship matches on cable instead of broadcast TV? Poor form. That ought to be on their broadcast channels.

I get the business side of forcing people to pay for cable if they can't reach a certain quota of advertising dollars on ABC, but watching Wimbledon on NBC during my summer vacations as a boy was how I started to love tennis so much, so it's a bit sentimental for me.

[Handyman]

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Yes by turning ESPN on you are just giving credence to their showing this stuff.

[bigmrg74]

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Again, I work in a sports department and I was told check the Nationwide race. The whole two minutes I was watching was Howard didn't stay with the Lakers because blah blah blah or Howard told people he didn't want to be Kobe's second banana and Steve Nash is old blah blah blah. Nothing else was on that bottomline for that two minutes even though there was MLB going on and NHL free agency. I'd welcome mindless NFL stuff at the point. Lay off for once, X. You complain about my complaining so that makes you just as bad if not worse than me.

Dude!!! www.NASCAR.com

As a Journalist, shouldn't you be going direct to the source as much as you can all the time?? Why dink around with a third party there, IE the four letter network??

[The Rube]

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I have to agree with XYZ. There are enough alternatives out there. IF I decide to turn on ESPN for whatever reason, I know what I'm getting into, and forego any right to beech about the coverage. It's not like I have no idea what they will be spotlighting/etc. They've been around for 30+ years, as have I, so it's not a surprise.

[Farce Poobah]

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Lay off for once? M? I lay off for months at a time yet you never stop *****ing about the same thing. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Don't gripe at me because I have the audacity to point it out. It's comical. Lot of places to check on that Nationwide race, M. But if you're going to **** and moan for years on end about relying on the ESPN you seem to loathe so much despite being incapable of weening yourself from its teet, it shouldn't come as a surprise that people tell you either stop watching or to shut the hell up. M.

ESPN Still Sucks.