[opendtv] Re: ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really Into It
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 23:48:44 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
SORRY BERT
This article pretty well destroys your narrative about ESPN,
Really Craig? Here ios what it actually says:
"Ratings for live sports, unlike almost everything else on TV, were soaring.
And ESPN had big games year-round-Monday Night Football, college football bowl
games, Major League Baseball's opening day, and the NBA playoffs, to name a
few. A cover story in this magazine in the fall of 2012 dubbed ESPN the
'Everywhere Sports Profit Network.'
"Five years later the network's profits are shrinking, and the
10,000-square-foot SportsCenter studio has already begun to look like a relic.
The show's formula, in which well-fed men in suits present highlights from the
day's games with Middle-American charm, is less of a draw now that the same
highlights are readily available on social media. Viewership for the 6 p.m.
edition of SportsCenter, a bellwether for the franchise, fell almost 12 percent
from 2015 to last year, according to Nielsen. Keith Olbermann, the
SportsCenter-host-turned-political-commentator, put it bluntly on a podcast
last year: 'There's just no future in it.'"
Gee, I wonder if they can afford to stay stuck as Craig is. Read the article
again, Craig. You missed its point rather completely.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it
Bert
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