All Things Sports Media Thread!!

[IATT]

Who?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Lowe Post podcast from Sloan: Daryl Morey on the Rockets, draft mistakes, bad nicknames, Broadway musicals, more https://t.co/r7tTioCb4Q

 

[RyGuy45]

Sam Ponder has emerged as the favorite to replace Chris Berman on Sunday NFL Countdown

SI.com

Last week Jim Miller, the author of the These Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World Of ESPN tweeted that he was hearing that ESPN college football reporter Sam Ponder would become the new host of Sunday NFL Countdown and Suzy Kolber would continue on Monday Night with an expanded role. The Sporting News reported Ponder had “emerged as a strong candidate.” SI.com can confirm Ponder has indeed been offered the position. Nothing is signed as of this writing. Ponder declined comment through her CAA representation.

 

[trueprada]

 Chip Kelly has reportedly auditioned for a Fox Sports analyst role.

 

[elpablo21]

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[h1]Here Come Big ESPN Layoffs [/h1]
It has been widely understood for a while now that ESPN would lay people off in 2017, and Richard Deitsch has some of the details. Via Sports Illustrated:

SI has learned that ESPN will have significant cost-cutting over the next four months on its talent side (people in front of the camera or audio/digital screen). Multiple sources said ESPN has been tasked with paring tens of millions of staff salary from its payroll, including staffers many viewers and readers will recognize. Those with contracts coming up would be particularly vulnerable, sources said. The company is also expected to buyout some existing contracts, which is something rare for ESPN historically beyond a few NFL talents. The cuts are expected to be completed by June.

ESPN’s last major layoff was in October 2015, cutting somewhere north of 300 employees, mostly behind-the-scenes people. Not much more cutting can be done there before hitting bone, so it makes sense that these layoffs will be focused on “talent.”

ESPN has long believed that the ESPN brand was more important to creating stars than the stars themselves, and has largely been proven right, as the majority of those who have left Bristol have achieved less fame elsewhere. That belief has only been bolstered in the last year, with Fox Sports poaching ESPN leftovers—and winning legitimate bidding wars for Colin Cowherd and Skip Bayless—only to see Fox’s Suicide Squad barely dent the ratings. (Much more worrying is that Fox Sports poached the rights to broadcast the next two World Cups, a growth property, for what is a comically low price in retrospect.)

The most immediate causes of the layoffs are clear. Over the last several years rights fees have skyrocketed, with ESPN now paying over $3.3 billion annually just to broadcast the NFL and NBA. Simultaneously, ESPN’s subscriber count and viewership—the fabled dual revenue stream that has made it the most envied television company in the country—have tumbled. While the loss of 12 million subscribers over five years is mostly due to generalized cord cutting, and not subscribers specifically dropping ESPN, it doesn’t really matter: It still amounts to losing almost a billion dollars annually. The status quo is unsustainable, and with rights fees already locked in for several years, salaries are one of the biggest areas available to cut expenses.

For the last year or so, ESPN has been a drag on Disney’s stock price, after two straight decades of buoying it. In the fourth quarter of 2016 Disney posted lower-than-expected revenue numbers, blamed in large part on a rise in programming costs and a drop in advertising revenues at ESPN. It’s worth wondering if layoffs are a way of signaling to Wall Street that ESPN and Disney will do everything necessary, even if it is uncomfortable and unpopular, to cut costs and restore profit margins.

But layoffs of camera-facing employees raises a deeper, more existential question: What is ESPN’s identity if it is no longer a world-conquering behemoth? ESPN has built its brand on there never being a credible alternative—on you never having to change the channel, spin the radio dial, or go to another website—and by being the biggest mover in any field it decides to enter. The worldwide leader won’t be overtaken any time soon, but they are slowly, perceptibly, sliding back to the rest of the pack.

on air talent....Wonder who's on the chopping block 

 

[abubakr shaheed]

Bob Meyers on the Lowe post was pretty good. He's a sharp and insightful dude. I think he started the Warriors visit to San Quentin prison every year.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Have you heard ‘Ep. 183: Luke Walton’ by The Bill Simmons Podcast on #SoundCloud? #np

‘Ep. 184: Isaiah Thomas and 'John Wick 2' With Shea Serrano’ on #SoundCloud #np

 

[DCAllAfrican]

We spoke with Will Bynum about hooping in the D-League—11 years after being named its Rookie of the Year. https://t.co/0J3qmysoA5 https://t.co/IbMLSFytO6

 

[pharaohing jay]

Concepcion has sunglasses on in his Ringer avatar lol

 

[kingkoopa]

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on air talent....Wonder who's on the chopping block 

Bomani just signed a new deal so he's good.

Stephen A. expanding his reach with a new radio show so he's good.

We know Dan good.

Been rumors about Mike and Mike ending.

And please bring SVP back to radio and be done with Russillo and Kanell 

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[shogun]

Boring generic greenberg is getting his own morning show for some reason. Read that means golic might have a new radio show with trey wingo.

 

[juan weiner]

A Greenberg morning show 

 no thanks 

 

[Verde Shuttles]

A Greenberg morning show :x :x  no thanks 

[emoji]128514[/emoji] that sn, he would want Greenberg to leave

 

[kingkoopa]

I swear its not Greeny's fault

He's decent pared with the right person.

Golic is the problem IMO

 

[shogun]

At least golic has a personality. greenberg is like the stereotypical dweeb. He spent 2 weeks talking about eating cheeseburgers with a fork and knife and telling all their guests to do the same.

 

[IATT]

 
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on air talent....Wonder who's on the chopping block 

Bomani just signed a new deal so he's good.

Stephen A. expanding his reach with a new radio show so he's good.

We know Dan good.

Been rumors about Mike and Mike ending.

And please bring SVP back to radio and be done with Russillo and Kanell :x .

They need to put bomani after dan.. I turn russillo and kanell off with the quickest


Also give the morning roast guys more


Also like Pablo more with dan and co... can't get down with amin thou

 

[shogun]

I just read comments on awful announcing that radio stations and managers have complained to espn and told them not to give greenberg his talk show. Said mike and mike make so much money for everyone that cancelling it would make no sense.

Also read a few comments from people on there that they are tired of espn's left, liberal sports personalities. They also mentioned not liking the black people on the network and what they hear as anti-white commentary.

 

[Retroballer]

 
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on air talent....Wonder who's on the chopping block 

Bomani just signed a new deal so he's good.

Stephen A. expanding his reach with a new radio show so he's good.

We know Dan good.

Been rumors about Mike and Mike ending.

And please bring SVP back to radio and be done with Russillo and Kanell :x .

They need to put bomani after dan.. I turn russillo and kanell off with the quickest


Also give the morning roast guys more


Also like Pablo more with dan and co... can't get down with amin thou

People don't like russillo and kanell? I enjoy it.
And don't fire Jaymee Sire ESPN. She's bae.

 

[Retroballer]

And if people are Bill Walton fans, he will be on Pardon My Take in the morning. Should be outrageous. [emoji]128514[/emoji]

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Russillo & Kannell is just flat out meh, and by the end SVP & Russillo was meh, I don't blame Russillo either, I think he's good at what he does.

Haven't ****** with the show in a while

 

[juan weiner]

My boy Bomani and Pablo going to get there own show. Good riddance to get Pablo away from Dan and the show.

 

[shogun]

Bomani better still be on Highly Questionable. He looked like he wanted to smack Papi on today's episode though. Papi put his hand down his pants and rubbed himself. Wiped his hand on the shoulder of dan's jacket and then on Bomani.

 

[cash money 1999]

Papi

 

[cash money 1999]

has lebatard overtaken dan patrick ?
not in ratings but as a beloved radio show

 

[IATT]

Fake Howard schnellenberger is probably the funniest thing I've heard in a min