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Wonder if they're going to call for MNF flex games
A matter of when...
http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/es...history-102916
The biggest business story in American sports this fall isn't the declining NFL ratings or anything that's happening on the field, court, or ice, it's the collapse in ESPN subscribers, which reflect a larger trend in the collapse of cable subscribers in general.
Yesterday Nielsen announced its subscriber numbers for November 2016 and those numbers were the worst in the history of ESPN's existence as a cable company -- the worldwide leader in sports lost 621,000 cable subscribers. That's the most subscribers ESPN has ever lost in a month according to Nielsen estimates and it represents a terrifying and troubling trend for the company, an acceleration of subscriber loss that represents a doubling of the average losses over the past couple of years, when ESPN has been losing in the neighborhood of 300,000 subscribers a month.
These 621,000 lost subscribers in the past month alone lead to a drop in revenue of over $52 million and continue the alarming subscriber decline at ESPN. Couple these subscriber declines with a 24% drop in Monday Night Football ratings this fall, the crown jewel of ESPN programming, and it's fair to call October of 2016 the worst month in ESPN's history. But this isn't just a story about ESPN, the rapid decline in cable subscribers is hitting every channel, sports and otherwise. It just impacts ESPN the most because ESPN costs every cable and satellite subscriber roughly $7 a month, over triple the next most expensive cable channel.
Wonder if they're going to call for MNF flex games
It's cause they got rid of Olbermann last year.
But seriously, outside of new 30 for 30 episodes, their network is kinda worthless.
Originally Posted by dechecho
ESPN did get the short end of the stick for MNF. SNF is much better with flex. MNF is no better than TNF.
SNF also costs NBC much less IIRC. MNF is the worst deal right now.
You should have acted
Way harder to flex Monday games.
Load"*",8,1
I think that the horrible matchups for Monday night football are also to blame. It seems like the Sunday Night Football matchup is a much better game to watch.
can't wake up
I watch SportsCenter today and it's a goddamn nightmare of pundit speak, contrived storylines, and awkward celebrity cameos. I think I saw Omar Epps walking through Chicago giving the same storyline about Saint Theo I've heard 8000 times these playoffs.
Was it always like this, and I was just too dumb to notice?
It certainly wasn't like that in the 90s. I didn't get cable last decade and a half.
More layoffs, more good people gone (also not so good)
ESPN pays billions for their shitty MNF and they have to fire everyone
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