Maybe you shouldn't have been blowing off Friday afternoon, gabbing about sports for hours on end
ESPN cuts to 100 on-air personalities happening today
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anon_xdc8rmuek44eq
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Sorry not sorry for Kanell. Feel for the kids and wife though (for being married to the guy).
LOL....as if anyone would feel badly for Danny Kanell (or many of the others).
Guy didn't have three-seconds-worth of talent - brought absolutely NOTHING to the table, never added one iota of value to anything - but got paid (probably relatively well) for 8 years.
This is a great day for children everywhere. There could be dozens of CSA experts freed up to pursue volunteer work w/ their local charities.
If I really thought about it, aside from live ACTUAL sporting events (with the sound on "mute"), and a few of the "30 for 30"s ....the ONLY ESPN program that was ever worth watching was:
BodyShaping.....with Kiana ( even though it took a hit when Jennifer hooked up with that "walking-bag-of-hair" Chris Fowler)
There was - for a while - a gal who (honest to God) looked like a slightly more petite version of Kiana ....who worked out, for an hour or two EVERY DAY, at the gym I was going to.
Suffice to say, I RARELY missed a day at the gym during that time
so the effect of that show was really a positive!!!!.
Kianna's Flex Appeal. Best show ever on espn
She was outrageous
Yup, that is what I remember of him as well. One of the only ones who wasn't pushing through the agenda that ESPN wanted.
Except that Cosell was far more competent than most of the yahoos these days...
You sir, are getting the flag thrown at you.
We have rules sir, and that is what separates us from the animals.
Someone who is close to Bristol should go to ESPN and ask them for a job application. Today. This afternoon.
MM is on his way. Looking for college football announcing or studio show, will settle for Masters gig.
But but but, he wore all those wacky sport-coats!! People would tune into ESPN for that alone!
What you can see with guys like Ed going is a shift from actual reporting to talking head personalities in a studio pontificating about whatever issue they invent to talk about today.
Jason Stark got the boot. Really a shame. He is outstanding. Those people are d*cks to can him.
Do one column with the names of all of those let go, and one with all of those retained. You might as well just label column B as "Blowhards." That seems to be all that the jagoffs want on air.
You guys never saw the ridiculous (but oddly appealing) fishing show - Fish On?
It was almost as ridiculous as body shaping
Former Phillies beat writer from the inquirer Jayson Stark let go.
That sucks.
Used to live near me in Newtown. A good guy also.
Wonder where these people laid off go? Not like there is 100 spots for sports reporters out there full time. Just about every network is cutting down on reporters as they all have too many. Newspapers are not hiring. Local news is declining so not like a ton of traditional local sportscaster jobs open.
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Please fire David Pollack
Yeah, but I would take Pollack well ahead of Desmond Howard. Who seems to be safe for some reason.
bwifan
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Oh the irony... some of those at espn are tweeting to remember that the workers who lost their jobs today are people with feelings ... hmmmm yes they showed such empathy for Joe in his final days nearing death... I don't like seeing people lose jobs but the disgust I feel towards that place is real ....
bwifan
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It's true that it's sad in a way these folks are losing their jobs but let's not forget that the only reason they had jobs in the first place is because of the longstanding monopoly cable had that is now being broken up. Someone else nailed it when they said ESPN virtually had a license to print money because people that wanted cable TV in general had no choice but to pay for ESPN even if they didn't watch it.
I wonder if it was really necessary to employ so many of these people in the first place. I kinda get the impression ESPN figured, we're making so much money we might as well hire more people. Did they add that much value? Maybe ESPN should have just employed less and made even bigger profits during those monopoly years and that would save them having to fire them now.
I wonder if it was really necessary to employ so many of these people in the first place. I kinda get the impression ESPN figured, we're making so much money we might as well hire more people. Did they add that much value? Maybe ESPN should have just employed less and made even bigger profits during those monopoly years and that would save them having to fire them now.
Don't step on superman's cape, don't spit into the wind and don't screw with JVP.
Yep...right place and right time. And like many large companies, they over expanded and didn't come up with new ideas to package and present sports. Instead, they moved towards politics, drug use and contracts. And, on top of that, promoted blow hards (and apparently still are). They never developed new markets. The EU soccer leagues are killing them (when I look at 'trending' on Sat or Sunday, the soccer leagues are always over most of the sports programming). We got a bunch of politically correct BS that has never resonated with the viewer.
And nobody, not one, stood up for PSU in 2011, and almost none do today when institutionally, PSU has been exonerated (as has the football program and Joe).
Excuse me if I don't cry any tears.
If Pollack were fired....would he know? Or would he just keep showing up week after week (like Milton) ..... oblivious to the fact that he had been sacked?
Maybe you shouldn't have been blowing off Friday afternoon, gabbing about sports for hours on end
Your probably right, but the POS started it
It is a little like newspapers (which employed me and put my kids through college). A lot of really smart people were employed as journalists because newspapers had a monopoly (in most markets) on print ads. If you wanted people to see your new widget, or piece of clothing, or your new movie, your new car model, ANYTHING -- the local newspaper and TV was the only game in town. Readers appreciated the content that journalists provided, but it was advertisers who paid the bills. When the web came along that business model fell apart.
ESPN has been financially insulated by cable bundling but that is all coming apart -- and if anything, the paradigm shift coming to TV is going to happen even faster than the decline of newspapers.
Ironically, I think ESPN is right to invest in sports event rights. It's content you can't get anywhere else. If they have exclusive rights to NFL on Thursdays, then if you're bored and you can't think of anything better to do on Thursdays, you'll tune in even if they are terrible games. It's a business. But the problem is ESPN overpaid for it, not knowing how to value it. And that creates a cash flow problem for them right now. You lose $100 million PER NFL game, as some suggest happened, well pretty soon you've lost real money.
But all of ESPN's commentary and even some of their really good journalism -- Jayson Stark is a great example -- it's just not worth that much. People don't pay for content on the web except in niche things like rivals sites for recruiting content -- and even then they don't pay a whole lot.
ESPN has been financially insulated by cable bundling but that is all coming apart -- and if anything, the paradigm shift coming to TV is going to happen even faster than the decline of newspapers.
Ironically, I think ESPN is right to invest in sports event rights. It's content you can't get anywhere else. If they have exclusive rights to NFL on Thursdays, then if you're bored and you can't think of anything better to do on Thursdays, you'll tune in even if they are terrible games. It's a business. But the problem is ESPN overpaid for it, not knowing how to value it. And that creates a cash flow problem for them right now. You lose $100 million PER NFL game, as some suggest happened, well pretty soon you've lost real money.
But all of ESPN's commentary and even some of their really good journalism -- Jayson Stark is a great example -- it's just not worth that much. People don't pay for content on the web except in niche things like rivals sites for recruiting content -- and even then they don't pay a whole lot.
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