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ESPN is only available on pay cable & satellite. With streaming video, people are ditching that service. I'm one of those. I ditched cable. I have a big Blu Ray collection and stream Amazon prime. I watch my NFL team over the air. I stopped watching my local MLB and NBA teams because they're only on cable.
I have a vacation home with Comcast as part of the condo fee. I can stream ESPN to my iPhone or to my Plasma using HDMI from my laptop but I don't do it very often.
The thing I miss most is English Premier League on weekend mornings when the weather is lousy and I'm not outside. That's not ESPN but it's the cable thing I used to flip on on weekends to start the morning with a cup of coffee.
Do people paying to watch a game really want to pay to be overtly and subliminally lectured to on tangent subjects? Maybe they can offer a type of "CSPAN" for sports; just show the game...for an extra fee, of course.
ESPN decided to promote a political agenda at a time when cable cutting is growing and people have more options to view media. Someone at ESPN should have been fired and it wasn't the on air talent.
First content. By overpaying for game rights they've had to reduce costs for remaining programming. The quick and easy fix? Talking heads. So rather than air "Wide World of Sports" type events to fill the time between major games they went cheap and lazy. You could argue "SportsCenter", something of a defining feature of ESPN, was talking heads but it was a well produced news program, which leads to point #2 the Internet.
Nobody needs an appointment TV broadcast to now see scores and highlights. Done. *poof*
Growing irrelevant is not the way to make your business thrive.
BTW - I would invite you folks who seem to cling to the "liberal political" jive to point your browsers to Deadspin. They just published a number of pages from the ESPN internal employee comment board. They are anything but sympathetic lefties. For every on-air talent voicing whatever it is you seem to find objectionable, there are 100's of accountants, technicians, IT geeks, and office drones that, if the Deadspin leaks are true, feel otherwise. Point being, like any large company there are going to be a wide range of opinions. It's foolish to paint with a broad brush.
ESPN is only available on pay cable & satellite. With streaming video, people are ditching that service. I'm one of those. I ditched cable. I have a big Blu Ray collection and stream Amazon prime. I watch my NFL team over the air. I stopped watching my local MLB and NBA teams because they're only on cable.
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I know that I switched off the Chargers Broncos game way early because I couldn't stand the play-by-play. Worst announcer (Mowins) I've ever heard call a football game.
I can't stand Mowins either. Mowins is awful as a play by play announcer. You know? I bet it would have been fun listening to Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and Howard Cosell all over again if I would have watched reruns of MNF.
I think ESPN has become too political which is why their ratings are down. They gotta stop talking about politics if they only want to air sports. It is a SPORTS network and NOT a POLITICAL network because they are NOT FOX NEWS.
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