Is there anyone with talent left at this shit hole?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am leaving ESPN.<br>Salary cap casualty.<br>Thanks for the opportunity Vince Doria &amp; Al Jaffe &amp; for taking my solicitations<br>Herman/Stinton/Lynch.<br><br>I will miss the people.<br>I will miss the vending machine set up over by the old Van Pelt joint.<br>We had everything.<br><br>IntoTheGreatWideOpen#</p>&mdash; Kenny Mayne (@Kenny_Mayne) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kenny_Mayne/status/1391846208809877508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yup

That's too bad!

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ESPN no different than so many other media oil test, just like the KC Star. Have constantly force-fed their paying customers non-stop liberal politics and their customer based plummeted. Stupid is, as stupid does.

i bet thats a very very small part of it, the real big part of it, is people are cutting cable. I know i did last year and i dont even miss it. There is no reason to watch espn or fox sports outside of live sports. Most people spend hours upon hours looking at their stupid phones and can get what they need from there. Hell, i fi want to check the score to say the Dodgers game now days, i just head on over to r/dodgers and open up the game thread. They have the highlights already imbedded in the thread in real time.

They theoretically would be making up that difference with their espn+ platform. It doesn't seem to be enough though. I just think besides their live sports most of their type of programming can be found in a million different locations now.

ESPN peaked at 99 million subscribers back in 2013.. That was an impossible number to sustain because the advent of streaming changed the way the world watched and watches TV.

ESPN still has more than 82 million subscribers and ESPN+ has 12.1 million.

The news of their death has been greatly exaggerated.

And Chris Berman gets a contract extension from ESPN today...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happy birthday, Chris Berman - &amp; congrats on your new multi-year ESPN extension!<br><br>His continuing roles include:<br>🏈 NFL PrimeTime on ESPN+<br>🏈 NFL PrimeTime on ESPN after Super Bowl &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NFL</a> Conference Championship games<br>🏈 SportsCenter &amp; beyond<br><br>Details: <a href="https://t.co/XQu5WBkYL3">https://t.co/XQu5WBkYL3</a> <a href="https://t.co/NxuZWMSsmZ">pic.twitter.com/NxuZWMSsmZ</a></p>&mdash; ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1391861927794651136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Wrong, as usual.

ESPN is skewing younger. Kenny Mayne, as good as he was at his peak, is 61 years old and has been with the network for 27 years.

It was time for them to move on.

Chris Berman is 100 years old.

I would hazard a guess that there is also quite a bit of overlap on those two figures. But thats basically what I was trying to say as well. But they themselves seem to be leading the narrative when they keep doing 'massive' layoffs.

Berman is also the face of ESPN Football.

He'll be at ESPN as long as he wants.

If you're referring to ESPN and ESPN+, no, they are reported separately.

So, nobody that watches espn but also subscribes to espn+ gets counted in both figures? I dont believe it.

Dude, JFC, I ****ing hired one their Directors of Finance 18 years ago as junior financial analyst at Paramount. I don't pull shit out of my ass when talking about ANYTHING in the entertainment business.

You can believe whatever you want to believe but NO, those subscribers numbers are NOT mixed. If you're so concerned, do a ****ing Google search, where you'll find historical data and charts within minutes.