Disney tells ESPN to cut $100 million from budget next year.
- Thread starter HawktimusPrime
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Well ESPN sucks....
In all seriousness though, ESPN has become way too political for me. I'm for gay rights and for people to be whatever gender they choose but I don't turn it to sports to hear about social issues. Give me the damn games and highlights and get off my lawn.
In all seriousness though, ESPN has become way too political for me. I'm for gay rights and for people to be whatever gender they choose but I don't turn it to sports to hear about social issues. Give me the damn games and highlights and get off my lawn.
Firing Berman and Bayless would be a good start.
I watch games and that is it. I don't care about analysis or who is calling the game.
I want to know that too. They fly Tom Waddle back and forth from Chicago every weekend during the football season.
And that is just a tiny drop in the ocean
Unless they're making money, I would stop the ESPY awards.
Yes, the ESPY's jumped the shark with their courage award this year. Time to end them.
I am guessing we will see less original programming and more poker.
This. It's unwatchable during the week.
I'd say the remaining high-priced talent (Kornheiser/Wilbon for example), along with lifers like Berman, Corso, Bob Ley etc will be going away.
Younger = cheaper.
Younger = cheaper.
ESPN pays a lot of salary money to the clowns on
Pardon The Interruption and other senseless shows
with 2 people talking about nothing. Skip Bayless,
Stephen A. Smith, and others could be cancelled.
Pardon The Interruption and other senseless shows
with 2 people talking about nothing. Skip Bayless,
Stephen A. Smith, and others could be cancelled.
you mean like Mowins and Galloway?
Those two should have to pay Disney back plus interest.
Any guesses as to what this potentially means for Big Ten revenue down the line when our TV contract is up for renegotiation?
They can cut a lot of
BIG Jim's ego is too big to let this happen. He'll make osu buy ESPN before he lets this happen.
Shows how little you actually know. The ESPYs this year had the highest ratings ever in the history of the award ceremony. That's what ESPN wanted and apparently most people who tuned in. Looks like you'll have to suffer through again next year. Should we just chalk this up as you talking out of your ass?
Fair enough. I don't think something that has "jumped the shark" pulls in its highest ratings in its 22 year history. In fact I would say previous shows probably did "Jump the Shark" but this years seemed to pull people back in. We'll have to wait until next year in order to determine if they can keep the momentum going or not.
I don't think it has been much of a secret that ESPN has allowed some of their past contracts expire without aggressively bidding to keep them. NASCAR, IRL, The Open Championship, World Cup Soccer, Champions League, etc. I'm sure that is in large part to be able to make an aggressive all-in bid on the upcoming B1G TV rights. You also have NBC and CBS now with their own Sports specific platforms with parent companies holding a lot of cash on their balance sheets and a ton of programing hours to fill, so I think they will also be aggressively bidding along with Fox as well.
Start with ESPN News.....do we really need 30 minutes of sports news on a 24 hour loop?
The ESPY's pull in ratings during one of the lowest viewed TV weeks of the year. So, I guess Disney gets to determine if spending millions of dollars to fly everybody into LV is worth owning 3 hours of advertising on a horrible day, during a low volume period. Our society is smitten with 'stars' though, so regardless of cost, they are probably stuck with that tab for awhile. It's horrible TV though.
By the way, I am sure you know that the ESPY's are a money loser for ESPN each year.
Not necessarily....I read that they made a "competitive offer" to Cowherd before left and I'm sure SVP makes some really good money and he's getting more airtime. There's some value in high-priced talent.
What's interesting here is that I would bet their live coverage of sporting events is the most expensive stuff. Studio shows cost very little, but when you have travel expenses for full broadcast crews, often 5+ in the same day all over the country, that gets real quickly. That also seems to be their biggest card to play, so that's going to be tough to cut, though I did see that they'll be doing more remote broadcasts.
With the Jenner stunt they got my 74-year old mother to watch the Espy's, along with my 3 sisters. That has never happened before and won't happen again. The Espy's peaked.
Why are you watching programming you feel to be political? It isn't like they do stuff during games. Just hit the remote when the chatter shows are on and just watch the live sports, otherwise I think you might like being outraged?
ill see if i can find the link, but about 95% of espn's costs are from paying for live sports rights, not sure how they can cut costs much when they continue to pay crazy money for live rights.
100% agree. The takeaway is journalists whether sports, news or obits are overwhelmingly libs
It's funny -- on the one hand, it is crazy money. On the other, live sports has to be almost single-handedly propping up the cable TV model. Live sports, while still plentiful and there are still options, are much harder to replace (especially if you're into specific teams and don't live locally) than standard programming....and watching live still matters.
That's the cheapest thing they have (rerun, self-produced), why would they cut it?
It also doesn't prove it made money, not saying it didn't but have no bench mark for how much it costs to put on and how much advertising revenue they get to offset it.
