TriCitySam wrote:Don't care about most of the folks getting laid off....but Suzy Kolber? She was one I respected. How about Michael A. Smith? Lay that jackass off.
TriCitySam wrote:I get the need for Disney to get back in the black ASAP. Used to be ESPN was on every package, now with the ability to select which channels you want in your package, it has no doubt hammered ESPN's revenue.
jshawaii22 wrote:This isn't about cutting ESPN's budget and that it would somehow affect Disney's bottom line.
The allmighty $$$ spent on on-air talent was and still is idiotic. Besides, if you look, they just signed Pat McAfee to a 85 million contract. What budget?
However, Disney IS trying to save money all over their theme parks. One example is understanding Disney knew that getting out of Florida's multi-billion expansion was a blessing not a "political move". Simply put, over the last 2 years Disney is seeing a huge loss of Disney+, far more then the loss of ESPN's cable subscribers. That's the big ouch right now as well as a 'public' revolt over some of Disney's practices and cost to be in their "clubs".
AS for the layoffs, the worst of them is still employed...Mel Kiper, so if he's still there, we know management is just throwing darts to a wall.
"The Seahawks draft was the worst I've ever been around in 20 years" (or something close) said from the floor of the draft after we drafted Bruce Irving, Bobby W and Russell, 1-2-3...
MackStrongIsMyHero wrote:I avoid the panels pre, mid, and postgame. I don't understand why there needs to be 8 "experts" talking about the game. The insights typically aren't earth shattering, and you don't need 8 people to spew out these golden nuggets of observation. It all just feels like a everyone trying to get there $0.02 in to justify their existence on the panel. Oversaturation, and perhaps this is the correction.
trents wrote:Concerning sports broadcasts moving from cable to streaming, I note that some of the Mariner's games are only available via Apple TV, not being broadcast those days on Root Sports, the usual outlet for Mariner's games. This is just for several games over the course of a season. It's like the M's are testing the waters.
The thing that scares me about this trend is that we will get hammered by a multitude of streaming content subscription fees in order to be able to watch the variety of sports and games that we now have access to via cable. The vast majority of what I watch on TV is sports and if I have to pay subscription fees to six or eight different streaming content services in order to cover the bases it's going to be spendy. If it weren't for sports, I would have cut the cable a long time ago.
Oly wrote:I just use the streams of...questionable legality. I have Prime for the photos and quick shipping (living in a rural area, that shipping is critical to get half of the stuff we need), but I'm not going to sign up for a dozen streaming services, not at the prices they charge anyway. Early on, we did sign up for a few services, but we don't watch much so nothing makes financial sense. My family of four watches maybe one movie, four or five TV episodes, and one or two sports events per week. And it's spread over so many services that none of it makes sense. If they could trim their budget by trimming unneeded anchors (and who TF thought McAffee was worth 85m?!) they could pull people like me with cheaper plans that maybe had tokens to watch X pieces of content per month. But when the analysis is shite, the broadcast quality is bad, and I only watch a few episodes, I'm just not going to pay what they are asking.
RiverDog wrote:IMO the reason for the big panels is to get as many recognizable names as possible to attract viewers. They're not concerned about the quality of their broadcasts so long as viewers tune in.
It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. Sports coverage is changing before our eyes. We now have two streaming services, Amazon Prime with TNF and YouTube for Sunday Ticket, that have exclusive contracts for live games. Don't be surprised if MNF and/or SNF eventually make their way to internet streaming. Are we heading for a PPV type set-up of the type that killed boxing?
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