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The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

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aygwm2 said:
Despite all the "suck" of ESPN, I am glad that they stream a lot of stuff on ESPN3 (or whatever they're calling it now) for FREE! Do they realize they're doing this for FREE? Is someone making them do this for FREE? How long will this last: ESPN3 for FREE?
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uhm, no its not free...internet providers pay ESPN for the right to make ESPN3 available to their subscribers, which means your internet bill is higher than it needs to be so that ESPN get can more money from Time Warner Cable or Comcast or whoever...
 
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aygwm2 said:
Despite all the "suck" of ESPN, I am glad that they stream a lot of stuff on ESPN3 (or whatever they're calling it now) for FREE! Do they realize they're doing this for FREE? Is someone making them do this for FREE? How long will this last: ESPN3 for FREE?
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Shirtless Guy said:
uhm, no its not free...internet providers pay ESPN for the right to make ESPN3 available to their subscribers, which means your internet bill is higher than it needs to be so that ESPN get can more money from Time Warner Cable or Comcast or whoever...
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D'oh! CONFOUND IT! ESPN SUCKS! And, so does my internet provider...
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Really? ****.
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Per a USCHO article on the issue, the NCAA signed a 12 year deal with ESPN for exclusive rights to ALL NCAA tournaments last year, outside of basketball, which is owned by CBS.

This really sucks, as I feel like NBC Sports could do a fantastic job with the NCAA hockey tournament, it do it some justice.
 
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MavHockey14 said:
Women's Hoops, somehow, some way is actually highly popular and gains followers each and every year.
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jen said:
why not?
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I always thought of this as a chicken or the egg situation. Does ESPN broadcast a particular sport which then gains appeal and is aired more or does a sport require a baseline level of viewership for ESPN to show it? For women's BB, I think it is the former. ESPN has shown it for years and years including college and WNBA. The ratings are growing apparently, albeit slowly. If they actually aired hockey once in a while, they might accumulate an audience for it. How about one game/week?
 
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icebadger said:
I always thought of this as a chicken or the egg situation. Does ESPN broadcast a particular sport when then gains appeal and is aired more or does a sport require a baseline level of viewership for ESPN to show it? For women's BB, I think it is the former. ESPN has shown it for years and years including college and WNBA. The ratings are growing apparently, albeit slowly. If they actually aired hockey once in a while, they might accumulate an audience for it. How about one game/week?
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I say **** it. Completely stop with the hockey coverage, as this is basically the case anyways, and let NBC Sports, who continues to do such a great job with it, expand its coverage further.
 
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icebadger said:
I always thought of this as a chicken or the egg situation. Does ESPN broadcast a particular sport when then gains appeal and is aired more or does a sport require a baseline level of viewership for ESPN to show it? For women's BB, I think it is the former. ESPN has shown it for years and years including college and WNBA. The ratings are growing apparently, albeit slowly. If they actually aired hockey once in a while, they might accumulate an audience for it. How about one game/week?
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Even that's too much to ask for hockey when it comes to this network.
 
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btw, I wasn't asking to be all feminist-*****y about women's sports - I realize it could come across that way. I'd rather watch the grass grow than watch women's basketball. But that doesn't mean ESPN has some sort of social responsibility to show the National Grass Growing Championships because I, personally, think it's more exciting. :p
 
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jen said:
btw, I wasn't asking to be all feminist-*****y about women's sports - I realize it could come across that way. I'd rather watch the grass grow than watch women's basketball. But that doesn't mean ESPN has some sort of social responsibility to show the National Grass Growing Championships because I, personally, think it's more exciting. :p
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Don't give them ideas...
 
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jen said:
btw, i wasn't asking to be all feminist-*****y about women's sports - i realize it could come across that way. I'd rather watch the grass grow than watch women's basketball. But that doesn't mean espn has some sort of social responsibility to show the <strike>national</strike> extreme grass growing championships because i, personally, think it's more exciting. :p
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This thread made me think of what the X-Games have evolved into from 1995 to now... Like most other things involved with ESPN, it is simply a shell of it's former self... But at the same time, it has taken once fringe sports and made them highly visible and even mainstream... And that is a great thing for those sports.... IDK what to make of this.... I'm stuck on the fence...
 
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This thread makes me think "why the **** don't you just watch the NHL network?"
 
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RaceBoarder said:
This thread made me think of what the X-Games have evolved into from 1995 to now... Like most other things involved with ESPN, it is simply a shell of it's former self... But at the same time, it has taken once fringe sports and made them highly visible and even mainstream... And that is a great thing for those sports.... IDK what to make of this.... I'm stuck on the fence...
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The X-Games are a shell of their former self? Did they take a cosmically deep and spiritual event and make it profitable, is that what you're whining about?
 
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RaceBoarder said:
This thread made me think of what the X-Games have evolved into from 1995 to now... Like most other things involved with ESPN, it is simply a shell of it's former self... But at the same time, it has taken once fringe sports and made them highly visible and even mainstream... And that is a great thing for those sports.... IDK what to make of this.... I'm stuck on the fence...
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ESPN has turned hockey into a fringe sport. :D Maybe they will have to cover it by your logic.
 
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I haven't seen the Worlds Strongest Man 1992 in a while. Why doesn't ESPN play reruns of those anymore? They used to be on all the time.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I haven't seen the Worlds Strongest Man 1992 in a while. Why doesn't ESPN play reruns of those anymore? They used to be on all the time.
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They used to counter-program against the NFL with it. I hardly see it anymore since poker came under the umbrella of the Evil Empire.
 
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