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Women's Hockey Attedance

Re: Women's Hockey Attedance

Hux said:
Has nothing to do with feeds, and everything to do with pennies. A friend was a producer at ESPN, and a big fan of hockey. Even when ESPN was carrying NHL games, they took a back seat to baseball, and college football and hoops because those sports had better ratings, thus generating more money.

Later, when poker and other junk sports took over, he said it was because it cost little to produce and generated more revenue than hockey. (the Disney bean counters were very diligent) He also attributed the short shrift given hockey to the predominance of folk at ESPN from non-hockey regions who favored hoop especially, and had little interest in the hockey.
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I read somewhere that over X% (can't remember the % off hand but ...it was alarming) of players in the NBA were convicted felons. Is this the target audience that ESPN is after to put money in their coffers?
 
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