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ESPN To Cut Back Baseball/Hockey (More Original Programming,Less Sports)
Variety ^
| 6-22-05
| John Dempsey
Posted on 06/22/2005 9:55:22 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: GSWarrior
No way. Stewart Scott is now completely insufferable.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:11:48 AM PDT
by
AmishDude
(Once you go black hat, you never go back.)
To: John W
What it comes down to is simple economics at the end of the day. ESPN can sell these original programs to other networks and put them on DVD and make millions in revenue. They put the season of Tilt on DVD and it sold like hotcakes for some reason,although the show essentially sucked.
The same thing with "3" The Dale Earnhardt Story,they put that out on DVD and also gave rights to SPIKE-TV to air it as well. Tens of millions of dollars.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:12:45 AM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: AmishDude
Have you ever gotten lost in the gaze of Stuart Scott's lazy eye?
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:13:19 AM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: My Favorite Headache
Shapiro says one of the reasons ESPN's scripted series about Las Vegas poker players "Tilt" failed to find an audience earlier this year is that the only free night not saturated with live sports commitments was Thursday, where, at 9 p.m., the show had to go up against such strong series as "CSI" on CBS, "Will & Grace" on NBC and "Extreme Makeover" on ABC. Against those odds, "Tilt" never really had a chance. WRONG!! "Tilt" failed because it sucks. Period.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:13:43 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(North Texas Solutions http://ntxsolutions.com)
To: My Favorite Headache
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:13:54 AM PDT
by
AmishDude
(Once you go black hat, you never go back.)
To: My Favorite Headache
I think their problem is the exact opposite, not enough live sports events. Even if there is nothing on, I'd like to watch old world series games, etc...
Who wants to see more fruity soap-operas? I don't care if theyre about sports.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:15:02 AM PDT
by
Betaille
("Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face." -Ronald Reagan)
To: Redmen4ever
No music on MTV
No sports on ESPN
No classic television on TV Land
Sad future of cable broadcasting
Television executives are an insufferable lot that know as much about TV programming as I do about brain surgery.
To: My Favorite Headache
What the heck are they talking about? Good baseball teams get good ratings. The (GO!) Red Sox vs. (Evil) Yankees game that open the season was got some of the best ratings in ESPN history.
The desire to attract female view is not surprising, since nearly all of television has been given over to women.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:15:20 AM PDT
by
ElTianti
To: My Favorite Headache
I can see filling time with sportscasts and such at odd hours, but to run it instead of a live sports events is ludicrous. If I want talking heads and hollywood garbage, i'd watch all the other channels.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:15:55 AM PDT
by
wolfman
To: My Favorite Headache
Time to switch to Sirius or XM.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:17:17 AM PDT
by
Spirited
To: jordan8
No kidding - ESPN has become just another leftist repository. Their sports news shows tend to feature liberal-activism type stories more and more. They dwell on the stupidest non-sports stuff increasingly. They now want to insult their core audience and become like MTV? Fine, I have NFL Sunday Ticket, MLB Extra Innings, and the internet for news, and thus don't need them. It's too bad what has happened to the once-great and groundbreaking network though. Once again, liberalism destroys something good.
To: My Favorite Headache
Couldn't they just start ESPN/Lifetime? "Original" crap programming alternating with sports-themed chick-flix like "A League of their Own" and "Bull Durham". If they want to go after the bulldyke WNBA demographic, fine. Just don't expect real sports fans to follow.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:18:26 AM PDT
by
Luddite Patent Counsel
(Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
To: AmishDude
But there are times when I can begin to understand what Dee Brown is trying to enunciate. However, most of the time I need to mute it and let the caption fill me in.
I like the Trifecta at night, though.
To: pollyannaish
Yep.TV LAND has gone the way of VH1 and gotten into all of these "celebreality" Top 10 this Top 100 that programming ad nauseum.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:21:50 AM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: pollyannaish
Oh yeah and the TV Land Awards...quite possibly the gayest thing ever put on TV next to Cop Rock?
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:24:10 AM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: My Favorite Headache
ESPN and ESPN2 aimed the National Hockey League games it carried from 1999 through 2004 squarely at this viewer, but Shapiro says the NHL's ratings had fallen to such a depressed state by the 2003-04 season (a labor dispute obliterated the 2004-05 schedule) that he won't pay cash license fees anymore. And the women's college softball world series (which filled the TV slots originally reserved for the NHL playoffs) drew higher ratings than last year's hockey playoff games. The rights to women's college softball are a lot cheaper than the rights to the NHL.
To: BigBadWolf
Who the hell just sits around watching people play cards?Me.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:29:00 AM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
(http://justblogbaby.blogspot.com)
To: All
As a hockey fan I knew about the decision to show less hockey about a month ago. At that time I emailed ESPN to tell them how I felt about that decision. I also told them I didn't like all the movies and non sports they were showing when the could be showing sports. Tilt, Playmakers, Cold Pizza, Mike and Mike and Cheap Seats Programming and the rest of the garbage needs to go. I have yet to hear back from them. So I am going to email them again about them shrinking their baseball coverage as well. If ESPN doesn't want to show sports they should give up their spots on cable and satellite and let FOX do it. If you would like to email ESPN to complain their email is askespntv@espn.twdc.com
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:30:17 AM PDT
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
To: My Favorite Headache
That's the part that I hate. It is beginning to have this very gay veneeras if the only people who watch TV Land are gay NYers who believe themselves to be into whatever the newest camp is. Blech!
To: Cat loving Texan
No classic television on TV Land You mean Baywatch isn't classic tv.;)
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:34:45 AM PDT
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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