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Sources: ESPN heading for more painful layoffs
Sporting News ^ | October 27, 2017 | Michael McCarthy

Posted on 10/27/2017 6:46:27 AM PDT by C19fan

More bad news could be on the horizon for ESPN. Staffers at the Worldwide Leader in Sports are bracing for another possible round of layoffs late this year, multiple sources tell Sporting News.

The next round of cutbacks could come down in late November or early December, with 40-60 positions potentially being impacted, according to sources. The layoffs could hit both on-air TV/radio talent and behind-the-scenes production staffers.

(Excerpt) Read more at sportingnews.com ...


TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: espn
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To: C19fan

They should merge with the NYTimes.


21 posted on 10/27/2017 7:03:02 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: C19fan

I wonder what could be causing this problem. As far as I can tell, ESPN does not have a clue.


22 posted on 10/27/2017 7:04:47 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: C19fan

“Worldwide Leader in Sports”

and the leader in bad recipes, i.e., the sports/politics fusion. Just give me a hot dog and a beer!


23 posted on 10/27/2017 7:16:40 AM PDT by t4texas (If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Communism was appealing to European elites because they regarded it as insurance against social mobility. If one can ignore its dictatorial blood-soaked history, that is why it still has appeal to the elites.

What is mystifying is how and why so many of the poor have been suckered by Marxism’s obviously fatuous selling points. They gladly, eagerly cede their freedoms and individual sovereignty for a vague promise of being paid off someday, somehow under the rubric of social/economic justice (read: forcible taking). They don’t seem to notice or care that these rewards usually never come or if they do they are as meager as the settlements in class action lawsuits in which corporations pay out billions and so called class members get a few dollars if they get anything at all. The elites (lawyers in this instance) clean up and declare victory and the gullible applaud and demand more pantomime.

The point of all this is that ESPN’s production and operations staff are now mostly young recent college grads who are gung ho for communist delusions. They are no different to workers in a communist regime eg Apple component manufacturers: they are housed, bused, clothed, and fed by the company who pay them a pittance.

They cheerlead this bifurcation of society even as they live and work on the poor side of the line of demarcation. Except for the high tech whiz bang graphics it’s run like the DIY basement studio in ‘Wayne’s World.’ The writers and broadcasters (they usually have to do double duty) in the Charlotte college football production facility regularly discuss the shoestring budget and salaries therein.

Short version: ESPN is being devoured slowly and painfully by its own rabid SJW animal but has chosen to lock itself in the cage with it rather than commit leftist heresy.


24 posted on 10/27/2017 7:19:12 AM PDT by relictele
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To: C19fan

I would think Jemele Hill would be one of the ones let go in a mass layoff. That way you’re not risking a lawsuit. You can say she was canned like everyone else due to a lack of suitable work.


25 posted on 10/27/2017 7:19:47 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: C19fan

ESPN is unwatchable.


26 posted on 10/27/2017 7:26:29 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ESPN can be renamed SJWN.


27 posted on 10/27/2017 7:27:27 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: C19fan
I disagree. I think Jemelle Hill and Michael Smith may be terminated because The Six has not been proven to be a success.
28 posted on 10/27/2017 7:35:51 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: C19fan

We stopped watching espn the day they were slobbering all over Michael Sam, first homosexual to enter the NFL Draft in 2014, and he was slobbering all over his boyfriend. He was out of the NFL by 2015, another Leftist social experiment gone bad.


29 posted on 10/27/2017 7:41:33 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: C19fan

30 posted on 10/27/2017 7:44:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

Bwahahahahahaha


31 posted on 10/27/2017 7:45:19 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: C19fan

CNN is headquartered in Atlanta, but they do have smaller staffs all over (most especially NY and Washington obviously)

Where is ESPN based at? How many do they have on staff total?


32 posted on 10/27/2017 7:45:50 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Let me add...Hahahaaaaaa!


33 posted on 10/27/2017 7:51:11 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EdnaMode
ESPN is unwatchable.

Sports talk in general is unwatchable. The only sports I regularly watch are the games of my favorite teams.

34 posted on 10/27/2017 7:57:39 AM PDT by Route797
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To: C19fan

But they will deny it has anything to do with their politics.


35 posted on 10/27/2017 8:02:39 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: C19fan
Does everyone remember when they were making a big deal on not using the term 'redskin'?

But they all use it now!

36 posted on 10/27/2017 8:03:55 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: EdnaMode
The show 'First Take' has 3 communists on it!

Max Kellerman truly hates America, has stated it has done horrible things in the past!

37 posted on 10/27/2017 8:05:51 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: C19fan
ESPN overpaid for NFL and NBA sports rights at the same time it was losing 12 million subscribers due to cord-cutting. Those millions in lost subscriber revenue, while still paying the fixed cost of TV rights deals, are driving the continuing layoffs, according to sources.

"I know it's a tough job but it was somebody's job to see the future — and they didn't," a source said. "Now viewers are going one way, costs are going the other, and nobody did the math."

38 posted on 10/27/2017 8:08:15 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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CNN and msnbc already covers ESPN turf....


39 posted on 10/27/2017 8:30:23 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Snickering Hound; SoothingDave; xsmommy; tioga
“I know it's a tough job but it was somebody’s job to see the future — and they didn't,” a source said. “Now viewers are going one way, costs are going the other, and nobody did the math.”

But, but, but ...

“Math is hard!” And math and science are a “white man's construct” ... that have no place in today's society of gender studies and relative truth. Facts and arithmetic are evil, racist models.

40 posted on 10/27/2017 8:35:19 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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