It's afraid. Not surprising they couldnt even afford to bid with NBC/CBS for B1G games.
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The buzz of the Bear has caught my attention. ill be watching it soon.
Just watched episode 1 and 2 of Season 4 of Jack Ryan. So good
Can’t wait for the Boys to be back.
Pat Mac brings energy. His NFL tales are fun. He can pull a lot of good guests. His ensemble is so so. Overall, its too much hype. Hes got a whole lotta DGAF which appeals to people. He made Brett Favre blink. Confrontational style programming works.
You know, Jim, from the office. Good guys, bad guys, lots of intrigue and shooting.
That was a business decision. Only the desperate would dare overpay for the B1G’s abhorrent brand of plodding, never-win-anything-of-substance “football”, especially when the league was dealing without the consent of its members.
NBC/CBS (the actual network that couldn’t afford to bid on their flagship & had to settle) were sold a bill of goods, and we will see the fallout soon. The numbers are certain to be lower than initially reported.
FOX - ESPN’s top rival - literally owns a controlling majority of rights to B1G football & took an active role in the new media deal alongside our lame duck former leader, STILL yet to be finalized.
You expect ESPN to negotiate with those terrorists when they’re already holding the best hand at the table?
Would be akin to Coke/Pepsi cooperating in partnership to co-sell a 2nd rate product.
ESPN currently pays ~$30B for live sports, and will eviscerate the B1G hodgepodge deal with the SEC soon.
Get a clue.
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The phones and cars are why I watch Perry Mason on FETV. The cars have grills that look like monsters and really long tailfins. You know...the way cars SHOULD look. And the phones are in booths or on poles. You put in a dime and get three minutes. That causes people to avoid unnecessary calls, and when they do make calls, they collect their thoughts beforehand and get to the point. They didn't blather on for hours the way people do now.
Oh yeah...and people stayed off one-another's lawns too.
The ratings and viewership drop is mostly a product of streaming growth and social media accessibility, not just political meanderings.
Technology hasn’t helped the network, that’s a part of it. Think politics has been a larger piece of the walk away. The annoyance factor makes it easier to watch sports and get Information other ways.
ESPN was the 2nd most watched cable network in 2022, right behind Fox News and way ahead of 3rd place MSNBC
They dominate live sports, especially college football
Lot of dipshits ITT
They dominate live sports, especially college football
Lot of dipshits ITT
That is an unfortunate statistic is many ways.
And as our population increases, is the number of viewers for those stations going up staying flat or going down year over year?
Live events will get good numbers if they are good events themselves.
Watching E$PN/Disney lose money, works for me. Seeing the why and the where matters because if they don’t make the r correct adjustments to stem the losses, then agenda (whatever people think of the agenda or even what it is) matters more than being high quality and profitable to remain long term at the top.
Viewership for the thing they pay most for - premier live sporting events - has literally never been higher
Now that they will gobble up CBS’s midday premier SEC matchup because CBS actually is suffering a giant ratings and revenue drop, leading it to bow out of its best programming and replacing it with 3rd rate B1G games, it will skyrocket even more
Those games were 3 of the 4 most watched regular season matchups last year
For the live they do well, the ratings for the “Title IXish” rest of the broadcasting not so much and so they are making cuts to it. Getting back to their roots of live sports that people care about will help.
I believe the first network listed could very well be the cause of many of the dipshits ITT, and in general.
Thankfully, the rest of the forum is saved by the intelligent folks watching the 3rd network.
Replace 1st with 3rd, and you might be onto something.. don’t forget to mask up
Equally culpable, just do not have as large of audience, hence, statistically, fewer dipshits.
That is all I will say, at risk of getting a vacation I do not want.
Yes on occasion I do. It’s fun to defend Huskers so if there is a thread that makes sense, no issues jumping in. Also - I have many Iowa friends so I keep up with their program as well. But I know you think it’s a sin to have friends of another team.
I have friends that are Mizzou fans and OU fans too. What does that do to your rivalry calculator?
Those are set in stone, somewhat like your outward appearance here as a 40-something douche
Fresh Prince, Family Matters, The Jeffersons and Living Color were all primarily black TV shows that were universally liked/watched across all racial demographics. They focused on making an entertaining show and didn’t attempt overtly inject politics/diversity into the plot/story. And had a plots/story lines that naturally involved a primarily black cast. Instead of injecting racial diversity into plots that didn’t necessitate it, which in many cases make the story less believable.
Same goes for many of the most popular shows with primarily white cast members. Example… Friends, Cheers and Seinfeld. Nobody would dare make a show about a group of upwardly mobile friends in NYC/Boston(cheers) without making one or more the characters black/Hispanic/Asian etc… Those 3 shows are without question some of the greatest comedy series of all time, and would never be casted today(or written) as they were if made today. Think how many of these great shows did not get created/written in the last 10ish years because they wouldn’t fit the DEI standards of the current times. Some shows just make sense with a primarily black or primarily white cast, but when diversity and political views are forced into a plot that doesn’t need or call for it… Your show comes off as unauthentic, unrealistic and politically bias. All things that turn off viewers over time, even many on the moderate political left have grown tiresome of the cookie cutter, milk toast, unoriginal and uninspiring product these practices create.
Lastly, I think (I hope) many companies are now seeing that choosing a political side and having your product overtly reflect that political choice/stance is not a good long term business model. Not 100% sure the tide has totally turned as of yet, but there many indications that it’s starting to change. Still a lot of people who want to live in a political eco chamber and want everything they consume to reflect their personal political beliefs. And these people are often times the loudest voices in the room, even if they are in fact a smaller minority.
Live sports is one on the few things keeping TV viable. The B1G offers the highest rated brands and games in college football and its not particularly close.
ESPN didn't have the money to bid because they paid the SEC a second tier rate for the second tier product it is.
Now the SEC is stuck getting way less money than the B1G, in a longer contract. And soon the B1G is probably going to take a few schools from the SEC as well and make them as irrelevant as the Big 12.
Disney is a failing company with the only thing propping it up being government handouts on keeping copyright way passed its expiration & other sweetheart deals. And like the idiots they are, they bite the hands that fed them. Once those handout end, and they will, they will fall like the house of cards it is.
I have never understood the people that have to tell everyone how they hate ESPN and never watch it.
Once CFB starts I (and most of us) watch ESPN every day.
College Game Day on Saturday morning is still amazing. It was super awesome when they covered NU a lot more but well, NU has sucked. We still all hope for Game Day to show up to Lincoln for a game because it is awesome.
But come on, you watch ESPN, I watch ESPN, we all watch it.
Once CFB starts I (and most of us) watch ESPN every day.
College Game Day on Saturday morning is still amazing. It was super awesome when they covered NU a lot more but well, NU has sucked. We still all hope for Game Day to show up to Lincoln for a game because it is awesome.
But come on, you watch ESPN, I watch ESPN, we all watch it.
FOX's show is better. Now there is no reason to even pay for ESPN anymore
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