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2016-08-06 Economy
ESPN Loses 4 Million Subscribers In Past Year
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Posted by badanov 2016-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 You want payback, ban bundling. Then watch their numbers.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-06 08:07||   2016-08-06 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 I dumped cable last year because of the constant predatory increasing rates with a lack of service just pissed me off. Most of the cable news is in the tank for the Donks as well. I got fed up with the constant left-wing drum beat for the Dems. I found that I saved a ton of money. The "real news" is available from the alternative media via the internet. The crowning blow came when At&T promised me service in time for a championship game and they didn't deliver. Ended up watching the game in a sports bar--haven't had cable since.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-08-06 08:27||   2016-08-06 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ESPN has become MSNBC that occasionally shows sports.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-08-06 09:12||   2016-08-06 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I dumped cable several years abo. Never missed it. Now we mostly watch things on Amazon prime.
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-06 09:18||   2016-08-06 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 I cut the cable years ago. Between Netflix and Amazon, there isn't a show I miss. I can get NFL Sunday Ticket streamed for my Bronco games.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-08-06 09:26||   2016-08-06 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 I used to watch a lot of ESPN as a way to avoid all the political bull crap. Really fun in the old days when VFL (aka Aussie Rules) was on and Allie Sherman did the football analysis.

I've always liked intelligent analysis shows and the weird sports but it changed into a channel of all big sports all the time. Then they tried to shove the WNBA down our throats, then the racial grievance mongers like Stephen A and the NBA.

Pretty much down to one show now, Mike & Mike in the Morning and even that is becoming SJW polluted.

Been going to the web for news for years, doesn't seem to be anywhere to go for non-politicized entertainment anymore other than a few science type shows and even those can get questionable.
Posted by AlanC 2016-08-06 09:29||   2016-08-06 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Bill Nye the Political Hack you.

Even science shows are tuning into GloBull Worming / Enviromental Facism indoctrination shows.
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-06 09:46||   2016-08-06 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Rant got gobbled. Will try again later.
Political ad on Olympics - just turned the TV off, probably for the rest of the deal.

Anyone see the opening ceremony? We MST3k the deal. What was the Japanese Imperial March? Happy Peasants? And the Yo Gabba Gabba War?

ESPN is a knitting circle for aspiring sport bar trivia heros.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-06 11:05||   2016-08-06 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 CF, Outrageous Acts of Science is still fun. Mythbusters is gone now but they were fading fast the last couple of years. Some of the History channel type stuff is okay and some of the car building shows on Discovery too.

Never liked Bill Nye the Science Boob or Global Worming guys.
Posted by AlanC 2016-08-06 11:14||   2016-08-06 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm a month away from cutting the cord - I'd rather get damn near every channel in the world than pay $150 / month to listen to Screaming A. Smith tell me what a racist I am.
Posted by Raj 2016-08-06 11:44||   2016-08-06 11:44|| Front Page Top

#11 We cut the cable - two years ago, maybe three. Got Roku boxes, and paid for Netflix and Hulu - already had Amazon prime. Honestly don't think we are missing anything currently broadcast. We can pick it up down the line on streaming video and without commercials. The cable bill monthly from Time Warner was 150$+, and I was just sick of paying that much and only watching a few things. Now it's $43 for the internet service only, and about another 20$ a month for Hulu and Netflix.
Posted by Sgt. Mom  2016-08-06 13:14|| http://celiahayes.com  2016-08-06 13:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Mark Levin stated about sports casters "Most of them are liberals, and all of them are stupid."
Posted by newc 2016-08-06 13:20||   2016-08-06 13:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Haven't owned a TeeVee in 10 years. Got big screen flat panel monitors powered by laptops with an internet connection.

This link is all I need.
Posted by Crating Clunk2894 2016-08-06 14:12||   2016-08-06 14:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Fox Sports is awful as well.

Remember the "more homeruns because of glow bull warming"?

Also, the Speak for Yourself with Whitlock - Whitlock the Hack was who spearheaded the Javon Belcher murder + suicide as Gun Lobby/NRA conspiracy culture, not what really happened: ill raised boy apex athlete who had a child out of wedlock, baby momma's momma raising the two, he went out routinely to do a bunch of drugs (which ones we do not know because the toxicology report was buried) and drink a bunch of liquor the night before the game and hooked up with one of his mistresses, was pulled over by police on the way home, released because superstar, shot and killed baby's momma, then suicided himself at the stadium.

Much easier to blame someone else then answer all of those questions, then Bob 'puffy face' Costas, the smartest man in the announcers booth, blamed white culture.

Whitlock was a KC Star = Disney = ESPN blue chip until bought out by Fox.

When PTI is the most popular show, you are doing it wrong. Countering that with SFY is like watching someone fishing a spot for 3 hours and doing nothing but losing bait, then taking their spot and expecting to catch something.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-06 14:18||   2016-08-06 14:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Radio seems to work well for my better half, who can listen to the Cubs while gardening or lying down for some shut-eye.
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