BKIslandersFan
F*** off
...Or rise in cord cutter is more likely.ESPN is hemorrhaging subscribers. Mass layoffs....They've become too political for most people to stand
...Or rise in cord cutter is more likely.ESPN is hemorrhaging subscribers. Mass layoffs....They've become too political for most people to stand
Even at the end.
Well, maybe that’s not quite right. The initial presentation of the NHL on OLN/Vs. was pretty awful. NBC/NBCSN has improved on that quite a bit. So maybe the relative perception just looks so much better from ESPN at the end because of what we got right after.
And it’s true that ESPN has changed quite a bit.
You can argue all you want about the quality of the presentation from that era, but it is what people miss about being on ESPN.
Last night NBCSN aired two hockey games with pre-game, intermission, post game productions. The entire night was dedicated to the NHL. Every night this week on NBCSN has been dedicated to the NHL, and this is pretty much true the entire hockey season. How can anybody complain about the coverage and production that NBC and NBCSN is giving to the NHL? Unbelievable. At the same time, you won't here a peep out of ESPN on any of their platforms about the NHL, and when they did have the NHL they put the league on the Deuce.
I don't want the NHL anywhere near ESPN. Could you imagine how bad they would politicize the NHL like they do every other sport? NBC just gives us straight coverage and analysis.
NHL going back to ESPN would be disaster
Coverage would be relegated to ESPN3 at best and even then we might have games cut off so that they can break in coverage to show some NBA developmental league action
They'll also cut away for breaking news that LeBron James doesn't like his teammates or got his coach fired, then spend the next 2 hours talking about it.
...Or rise in cord cutter is more likely.
The NHL players aren't political enough for ESPN. They like the NFL wingnuts like Michael Bennett an Colin Kaepernick. Fits the ESPN narrative
The NHL players aren't political enough for ESPN. They like the NFL wingnuts like Michael Bennett an Colin Kaepernick. Fits the ESPN narrative
Reasons why i don't really watch ESPN and NFL anymore these days.
I stopped watching the NFL after San Diego was allowed to move to LA. The league became a joke to me after that.
Free speech isn't a concern with regard to the NFL and anthem protests, but every time I hear someone complain about politics in the NFL like it's new I laugh.
Stopping free speech. Excellent idea.
While a major factor, can you confirm that other broadcast channels have been as affected as ESPN has? I think it has much more to do with the fact that people no longer need ESPN to get their daily fix of sports highlights and scores. I have 4 apps on my phone for that, not including this message board or reddit or even twitter. Back in the day people put ESPN on in the background on a weekend just for noise. Now, its Youtube.
When I want to watch a sports game on tv I want to watch the sport game not watch players protest what i consider over political issues. Same thing with ESPN focus on the sports on not politics.