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Still Complaining About ESPN...

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I tried to get some info on the Twins today from ESPN. I just can't do the new website. It really is awful.
 
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Why is the National Spelling Bee so captivating?

Last night's contest was really interesting to watch, those elementary school children knew so much etymology! "Is that word from the latin ... meaning ... ?" they'd ask. Very impressive.
 
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No it's not. As I've gotten older, I've seen it as more and more (at a lack of a better word, ironically enough) silly. It's not that impressive anymore. At least not to me. The one's I'm more impressed by is the Siemens or 3M science awards.
 
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Olbermann out at ESPN.

Only a matter of time before they just turn First Take into a six hour show and replay it four times a day.

I wonder where Keith goes from here. Hopefully not back to politics. NBC Sports doesn't really seem like a good fit for him, and while the culture of FS1 would be perfect, it is Fox, which he has not exactly been on the best terms with in the past... Still, I never thought he'd go back to ESPN so there's always a chance.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Olbermann out at ESPN.

Only a matter of time before they just turn First Take into a six hour show and replay it four times a day.

I wonder where Keith goes from here. Hopefully not back to politics. NBC Sports doesn't really seem like a good fit for him, and while the culture of FS1 would be perfect, it is Fox, which he has not exactly been on the best terms with in the past... Still, I never thought he'd go back to ESPN so there's always a chance.
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ESPN is killing themselves with all these moves. They are becoming (or have already became, in some cases) a spokesperson for (insert league) that they have contracts with.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
They've been official spokespeople for quite some time in my book
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That's why I said "for some." Depends on which contracts they have. Most definitely they have been spokespeople overall for quite a while. If they weren't so entrenched in the sports world as the "go-to" sports channel, they'd REALLY be in trouble. I think of them like CNN, when they were the end-all be-all of news networks. Then...things changed.
 
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Score!!

@awfulannouncing: Bill Simmons. Gone.

Keith Olbermann. Gone.

Roger Goodell’s critics at ESPN are shrinking, aren’t they...
 
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Some are doing more than complaining. Some are dropping it. More than 3 million subscribers lost in a year according to the WSJ. I downgraded my satellite package recently and now it includes only ESPN and ESPN2. I used to get everything they offered -- which seemed like about 10 channels. Now just two. I also do not watch anything on it but live sports and the occasional 30 for 30 (or other similar type) documentary offerings. No talking head shows, no highlight shows, nothing.
 
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I think Disney is in big trouble since most of their profits come from ESPN. The combination of people getting tired of paying for ESPN ($6-$9/mo w/o profit and overhead for the cable provider) and paying exponentially increasing costs for sports events is going to fuel a massive financial crunch in the very near future.

Edit: Ok, after reading the article, they lost me here:
Viewership of SportsCenter, its marquee and high-margin sports-news show, has sagged since September, due in part to the fact that younger consumers are increasingly finding sports news at their fingertips on smartphone apps.
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No, it's because ESPN has become a steaming pile of liquid sh**t.

Another troubling sign
This year, ESPN, which manages the NBA rights for Disney, cut that amount by about 75% so that it could sell more ads, people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that angered ABC executives.
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Plus there's the eventual a la carte argument. I've been saying for years that the overall cost to the vast majority of consumers would stay the same or go up with ALC. I figured ESPN would be in the $15-$20 range but newer estimates put that in doubt:
ESPN would have to charge about $30 a month per customer in an over-the-top offering to make the same money using that model, analysts say. But those distributors would have the right to undercut ESPN in their retail pricing, the people said.
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