asianway
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Oh, thats a new account? Thats my pet name for a certain overbearing left winger
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PhotoDave219
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Apparently she's not new, allegedly works for one of the blogs. I'd just never heard of her before and clearly with good reason.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
No I think that makes her a professional...
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
We will need a new scale for Disney's remakes perhaps vacuum cleaners to represent the suckage a 5 Vacuum scale for a real brunswick "i.e. the ability to suck a candlepin bowling ball through a garden hose"
Cesar R M
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PhotoDave219
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no seriously.. who? o_o
Exactly. I'd never heard of her. A really good friend had RT'd her and it said blocked. Oh well, guess i wont get inside the magic....
Nemo14
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PhotoDave219
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Saw something online tonight about how ESPN has lost 4M subs in 13 months. 92.9 down to 88.7
RoysCabin
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Going to be a slow, painful death on that one unless they can figure out a way to get ahead of the curve. ESPN is on nearly every basic cable package, but cord cutting is the name of the game today, and it's only going to happen more and more.
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Cesar R M
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HAH, you probably got your name or account shared in a list of "bad dudes to avoid online".
This is a thing in a lot of sites like art (deviantart) or social (tumblr).
Where a crybaby (someone who takes offense for not getting their posts praised or filled with yes-men) will make a list full of fake excuses (like "this guy insulted me, racist, misogynist, trans-phobic, antigay, toxic, etc.." and then they shove the list to everyone (specially their close circle of yes-men. and start spreading around, duplicating the "offenses" and making your mere presence worse than Stalin.)
I've seen that behavior a lot. and Its always pushed by some immature boy (or a young "feminist" girl in their 20's)
So, if you end being blocked by someone who you never seen and you just notice. That probably happened.
Cesar R M
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They need to push hard the streaming system. Jump the sinking boat before it takes them like a drunk captain.
PhotoDave219
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I really don't give a crap. I was just amused. Shows you really how high school the Lifestyler scene is.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Disney's executive suite is too technologically illiterate to actually save that sinking ship and more importantly TOO CHEAP as a decent streaming infrastructure costs REAL money both to buy and to OPERATE. As to their hot new tech TITAN board member Jack Dorsey well Twitter is losing money at an exponentially increasing rate, Yeah Dorsey knows how to make money in the tech world...
Compare Streaming's constant capital requirements and high operating expenses (IP transit and Hardware) to a typical cable property all you need is a studio,uplink and a transponder channel on of the 'birds' distribution consists of sending out the decrypt keys to the customers (who provide their own ground terminals and decryption systems).
Now compare Disney's loss of subs to Comcast who only lost 4000 subscribers the last quarter. Gee I can STREAM almost anything I want from Comcast ... Now Comcast is the nation's largest ISP with the service provider business being larger than the Cable business.
Someone please tell me again why Disney's 'content only' model is so great ???.
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RSoxNo1
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Their deal with MLB online is probably a smart move, but until they realize that Sportscenter is a dinosaur they'll continue to lose money. They are losing talented people because of political correctness and really the only thing they're doing well right now are the documentaries.
RoysCabin
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You mean "human decency and politeness", correct?
Beyond that, losing blowhards like Cowherd have had no real effect on ESPN, nor on Fox Sports, the competitors who picked all those guys up and who haven't seen even a minor uptick in viewership.
People simply don't care for cable anymore, but people (like me, anecdotally) will hold on to cable for the sake of live sports, so yeah, latching on to MLB and its superior streaming service is intelligent, but they have to get way ahead of the curve.
RSoxNo1
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Schilling and Simmons are two that come to mind.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Could Disney, for example, buy a Netflix and combine it with the content they already own. They have a huge library of items that could be streamed each month.
doctornick
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Bingo. They could fire every "personality" they have on ESPN, replace them with random guys they find in the local bar and I'm skeptical it would have much impact on ESPN ratings. People watch sports TV for live sports (mainly) and highlights/news (to a lesser extent).
I don't think there's really much ESPN can do to stem their viewship losses, they just need to get ahead of the sports broadcasting curve as much as possible by becoming a major player in streaming. Sports will always have significant demand, especially for live broadcasts, so there's a market going forward and ESPN is actually in pretty good shape to transition given the wide array of broadcast rights they control. It's just not going to be the glory days of the 90s and 00's when they were making obscene unparalleled revenue with their semi-monopoly of cable sports.
ford91exploder
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ESPN is a trainwreck, As multiple studies have shown to maintain their CURRENT expense model with 1/3 the subs would be about $20/Month however the viewers are only willing to pay $8 or less for ESPN packages in an unbundled environment. Remeber ESPN comes in behind the WEATHER CHANNEL in multiple studies.
lazyboy97o
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Disney already owns a chunk of Hulu but has not loaded it up with Disney content and continues to make exclusive deals with Netflix. Antitrust laws would likely foul up such sweetheart deals.