ESPN layoffs commence today

[kydmb99]

BLM isn't a political issue? That's an interesting take. Okay, I guess ESPN isn't breaking down actual legislation, so if that's your definition then you're right. However, culture and politics are intertwined so I'm not sure how you differentiate the two. Regardless, I don't buy the idea that urban NBA fans are the only demographic still watching sports on TV.

ESPN just seems like it's going the MTV route anyways and we see how that turned out. Either way though I think ESPN is a sinking ship, regardless of it's politics. It's a dying business model and once live sports shift to web-based broadcating that will be the end of ESPN as we know it.

[DMBstandUP1984]

I like the MTV original programming way more then the ESPN stuff nowadays.


Edit:that has nothing to do with anything, I'm mostly just saying words.

[TimHonks]

Originally Posted by DMBstandUP1984

I like the MTV original programming way more then the ESPN stuff nowadays.


Edit:that has nothing to do with anything, I'm mostly just saying words.

Like, "2017 New Years Resolutions for White Guys"?

I agree that ESPN is headed towards becoming MTV, in a horrible way.

[DMBstandUP1984]

nah. Teen Mom, Catfish, the old school guy courts/guy codes with Dan Soder and Chris D, True Life, Scream, Teen Wolf, Remote Control

[smokew11]

i just realized its been forever since i watched SC, and I probably used to watch it 2-3x per day. I generally get my highlights on Facebook or twitter at this point, but it's also lead to a very-much decreased knowledge of what's going on in baseball in particular

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by CrushB610

Beth freakin Mowins and Rex Ryan slated to call the 2nd MNF game of week 1 per reports.. espn decision making going from bad to worse

That game is almost always a tester game to see if a team can work. Hardly anyone watches it anyway. No harm, no foul.

[MOWJO8185]

Originally Posted by smokew11

i just realized its been forever since i watched SC, and I probably used to watch it 2-3x per day. I generally get my highlights on Facebook or twitter at this point, but it's also lead to a very-much decreased knowledge of what's going on in baseball in particular

So let me ask, did you stop watching because you actively didn't like the programming direction they were going in, or just because you didn't have to watch to see highlights of the sports you wanted to due to Facebook, Twitter and the like?

[Jake]

Originally Posted by CrushB610

Beth freakin Mowins and Rex Ryan slated to call the 2nd MNF game of week 1 per reports.. espn decision making going from bad to worse

she's not bad - she makes a few mistakes but she's not the worst play by play person they have. I don't have a problem with that.

[rustysurf83]

Originally Posted by MOWJO8185

So let me ask, did you stop watching because you actively didn't like the programming direction they were going in, or just because you didn't have to watch to see highlights of the sports you wanted to due to Facebook, Twitter and the like?

I've stopped watching and listening because I am really sick of the "hot take" WWE type mentality of all of their talking heads. Stephen A. Smith is the personification of why I stopped watching ESPN. Same reason I refuse to watch Skip Bayless on FS1...ESPN's main personalities are basically cartoon characters at this point.

[TwoStep2888]

Originally Posted by rustysurf83

I've stopped watching and listening because I am really sick of the "hot take" WWE type mentality of all of their talking heads. Stephen A. Smith is the personification of why I stopped watching ESPN. Same reason I refuse to watch Skip Bayless on FS1...ESPN's main personalities are basically cartoon characters at this point.

yeah the hot take mentality is a cancer in sports media and it's everywhere now, ESPN, FS1, it's turned me off from watching except for live sports

[TwoStep2888]

I guess that's what PTI and Around the Horn are to some degree and I used to watch them a lot but those shows had more likeable characters than Skip and Stephen A so it didn't bother me

[ToySoldier#34]

So long John Clayton

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by ToySoldier#34

So long John Clayton

Undoubtedly the greatest "This is Sportscenter" commercial of all time

[cry_minarets458]

i still hate the 6. last night's sportscenter at 6 PM was great because it was just SC Live without Michael and Jemele

[Rodey]

My favorite thing about John Clayton is the ponytail.

[RiotAct]

Originally Posted by ToySoldier#34

So long John Clayton

Wow

No one is safe from the mouse-hatchet, it seems.

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by cry_minarets458

i still hate the 6. last night's sportscenter at 6 PM was great because it was just SC Live without Michael and Jemele

They're fucking terrible.

[justink]

My favorite thing about John Clayton is that his stupid spongebob squarepants face won't be on my tv anymore.

[thebridge15]

http://awfulannouncing.com/fox/jamie...medium=twitter

absolutely disastrous sports media results that don't have to do with leftist politics

[Ascf33]

That was a great read. Interesting that he crashed out at NBC too.

[thebridge15]

I can't imagine how shitty it would be to go to a meeting like that at your job

[CrashDMB237]

That's an awful article only because I work in the TV/entertainment industry and I've seen shit like that go down (not where I currently work luckily). I was once told "people want to see more bounce passes and less dunks" by a suit that had never stepped foot in an edit room before and couldn't identify an all-star that was being used in image on the slideshow he was presenting. I really feel for the FS folks.

[Lee3691]

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ive-views.html

Britt McMurphy claims she was let go because she's a conservative. I am guessing the other 100 or so people let go were also conservative. Probably had nothing to do she was mediocre at her job, and was caught on camera demeaning an employee of a tow yard though.

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by Lee3691

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ive-views.html

Britt McMurphy claims she was let go because she's a conservative. I am guessing the other 100 or so people let go were also conservative. Probably had nothing to do she was mediocre at her job, and was caught on camera demeaning an employee of a tow yard though.

She'll be hosting Fox and Friends by Thanksgiving

[smokew11]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

She'll be hosting Fox and Friends by Thanksgiving

is she blonde with long legs?

[coldengrey12]

Originally Posted by Rodey

My favorite thing about John Clayton is the ponytail.

I'm like a month late responding to this, but

[thebridge15]

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mtv-news-1202481377/

similarly-related, mtv news is getting rid of a bunch of writers and focusing on video and a younger audience

I was under the impression that was what they were doing already, but...ok

[recentlyJTR41]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mtv-news-1202481377/

similarly-related, mtv news is getting rid of a bunch of writers and focusing on video and a younger audience

I was under the impression that was what they were doing already, but...ok

So they're becoming Nickelodeon? rofl

[JRS1386]

That is a dumb thought process

[Roose13]

Originally Posted by Lee3691

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ive-views.html

Britt McMurphy claims she was let go because she's a conservative. I am guessing the other 100 or so people let go were also conservative. Probably had nothing to do she was mediocre at her job, and was caught on camera demeaning an employee of a tow yard though.

McHenry, and she's a giant cunt waffle.