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Im done with espn

I really wish someone would step up with a better sports website for game summaries, stats, and scores. I can't find any that are as easy to get around as ESPN.com. Fox Sports is a bunch of tweets with actual summaries (the AP wire write ups) limited or delayed. Yahoo Sports makes my eyes bleed, etc..
 
Yet everybody in this thread will continue watching it in hopes of any extra nugget on Colorado Football.
 
do agree with **** espn though. SC is a really dumb theme with all these host talking as fast as they can adding their stupid personal shtick to the commentary - gets ****ing old. Then to top it off they run the dumb ass program back to back to back for like 6 hours every day... ****, we get it... F*** espn.
 
It's those damn interns again! Somebody's going to lose their unpaid position over this for sure!
 
ESPN is falling hard, so that's good news...
Last month ESPN lost 621,000 subscribers according to Nielsen media estimates, which was the worst month in the company's history. This month things weren't much better -- ESPN lost another 5550,000 subscribers according to Nielsen media estimates, meaning that the worst month in the history of ESPN has now been followed up by the second worst month in ESPN history. ESPN has now lost a jawdropping 1.176 million subscribers in the past two months.
Putting that into perspective, that means nearly 20,000 people a day are leaving ESPN for each of the past two months.
If that annual average subscriber loss continued, ESPN would lose over seven million subscribers in the next 12 months. And at an absolute minimum, these 1.176 million lost subscribers in the past two months will lead to a yearly loss in revenue of over $100 million.
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http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-another-555-000-subscribers-per-nielsen-112916
 
i quit ESPN a long time ago. it's unwatchable nonsense.....mostly just ESPN talking about ESPN....thinking it's bigger than the actual games....providing some kind of doublespeak psychological mumbo jumbo narrative about "what you are supposed to think about college football/basketball/etc.".

people seem to like that for pro sports but i think it's dumb and pointless.
 
What's gotten annoying to me is that most of the content on all the sports networks other than live games is just them putting a camera on a radio show. I get radio for free and looking at Mike & Mike or Colin Cowherd doesn't really enhance the experience.
 
Buffnik said:
What's gotten annoying to me is that most of the content on all the sports networks other than live games is just them putting a camera on a radio show. I get radio for free and looking at Mike & Mike or Colin Cowherd doesn't really enhance the experience.
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Every show on ESPN, save for Sports Center where they show highlights, could be done just as easily on the radio. If not for those talk shows like First Take, Around the Horn, PTI, M&M, etc there wouldn't be a TV network.
 
Thank goodness ESPN.com is blocked at work but not FoxSports.com.
 
According to the odds on E$ecPN's prediction breakdown page, we might as well not even show up.

This despite their own chart showing how we've done ATS:

Against the Spread
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    • OVERALL REC9-1-2
    • UNDERDOG3-0-1
    • AWAY REC4-0-1
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    • OVERALL REC6-5-1
    • FAVORITE5-5-0
    • HOME REC3-3-0
 
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News media with a vested interest in the topic of their coverage. It would be like if CNN was invested heavily in the Clinton campaign .... oh wait
 
Buffnik said:
What's gotten annoying to me is that most of the content on all the sports networks other than live games is just them putting a camera on a radio show. I get radio for free and looking at Mike & Mike or Colin Cowherd doesn't really enhance the experience.
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yes but cowherds chick side kick is delicious!
 
MtnBuff said:
As long as ESPN doesn't have a financial piece of PAC12 Network like they do with the SEC and the LNH and the B1G and as long as our primary prime time slots mostly go to Fox instead of ESPN/ABC they aren't going to spend much time on us. They are in the business of promoting their own content.

When the NHL wouldn't basically give them the broadcast rights for free they mostly stopped covering it. NASCAR coverage is tied to who is broadcasting it. ABC, the parent of ESPN, was a huge promoter of NASCAR right up until they lost rights, then it became an afterthought. When PAC football was a mainstay of the ABC then later ESPN schedule they couldn't say enough good things about it. Now it might as well be the MWC.

Want more coverage, watch Fox Sports programs, they have the interest.
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are you sure ESPN has a piece of the BTN? I thought that was all Fox.
 
hokiehead said:
are you sure ESPN has a piece of the BTN? I thought that was all Fox.
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I think you are correct with the BTN but ESPN/ABC has a contract that gives the league a large number of significant broadcast slots on their networks. The last few weeks they have been promoting B1G triple headers on the networks. They have the investment there that they are protecting.
 
MtnBuff said:
I think you are correct with the BTN but ESPN/ABC has a contract that gives the league a large number of significant broadcast slots on their networks. The last few weeks they have been promoting B1G triple headers on the networks. They have the investment there that they are protecting.
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I'm not sure what your point is, in that case. The Pac has a similar deal with ABC/ESPN, which involves regular season games and every-other-year of the CCG.
 
hokiehead said:
I'm not sure what your point is, in that case. The Pac has a similar deal with ABC/ESPN, which involves regular season games and every-other-year of the CCG.
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Pac-12 didn't give any ownership to ESPN or FOX, but also didn't sign an exclusive with either for broadcast on their main & secondary networks. Our deal for national broadcast games is split between them with alternating preference in their order of picking games. I'm pretty sure that the Pac-12 is worth the least of the P5 to ESPN revenues.
 
Buffnik said:
Pac-12 didn't give any ownership to ESPN or FOX, but also didn't sign an exclusive with either for broadcast on their main & secondary networks. Our deal for national broadcast games is split between them with alternating preference in their order of picking games. I'm pretty sure that the Pac-12 is worth the least of the P5 to ESPN revenues.
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This is the right way to look at it: what conference is the most valuable to ESPN?
B1G, ACC, B12 and P12 all split their "first choice/second choice" with Fox and ESPN/ABC. CBS gets first choice of SEC, and ESPN/ABC get second. So, in general, the first tier media rights have similar value to ESPN.

But, look at the next layer. ESPN has some ownership and/or exclusive rights to the ACC, B1G, SEC and B12. They have none of the P12.

So, when it comes to devoting coverage time to the conferences, it is quite simply more valuable for ESPN to devote time to every conference but the P12: they will reap more benefits from increased interest in Tennessee, Wisconsin, PedoState, etc than they will from increased interest in Colorado, Washington and Stanford.
 
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