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ESPN layoffs are coming soon — and nearly everyone is vulnerable

This is an attempt to boost Disney's stock price.

Major institutional shareholders who hold blocks of stock in a company only care about the price of that company's stock.

It used to be that success in big business would be measured by how big a company was, how much of a market share in that industry that company had, and how much profit a company made.

Today, all that matters is "Shareholder Value". Translated, it means Stock Price.
 
^^ That's actually a fascinating theory. Please do tell us where you've seen hard evidence of this, and where one can find the independent research which clearly shows a direct correlation between the amount of people who no longer watch networks like ESPN, FX, ABC, National Geographic and others, solely based on the Walt Disney Company's public comments about topics like education.
 
I believe that NBC will get baseball back when the current contract ends. They'll have a Saturday afternoon game on NBC and a Sunday afternoon game on Peacock with Sunday and Wednesday night games on USA. You might even see Spanish coverage on Telemundo & Universo.
 
blackgold said:
I believe that NBC will get baseball back when the current contract ends. They'll have a Saturday afternoon game on NBC and a Sunday afternoon game on Peacock with Sunday and Wednesday night games on USA. You might even see Spanish coverage on Telemundo & Universo.
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Needs context. When do MLB's Fox, TBS and/or ESPN deals end? That would include the ESPN Deportes deal as well. Kind of surprised that neither of the Spanish-language nets have MLB, but their emphasis seems to be futbol, futbol, futbol.
 
CTListener said:
Needs context. When do MLB's Fox, TBS and/or ESPN deals end? That would include the ESPN Deportes deal as well. Kind of surprised that neither of the Spanish-language nets have MLB, but their emphasis seems to be futbol, futbol, futbol.
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2028 seems to be the current contract dates.
 
Don CT said:
2028 seems to be the current contract dates.
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Well, that's a long way down the road. Who knows what the OTA/cable/streaming television landscape will look like in five years? I wouldn't even guess about MLB's next contracts, other than I feel a lot better about the sport now than I have for the past decade. The rule changes are allowing the next generation of stars to display their full talents and the grand old game might have one more popularity surge left in it.
 
CTListener said:
Well, that's a long way down the road. Who knows what the OTA/cable/streaming television landscape will look like in five years? I wouldn't even guess about MLB's next contracts, other than I feel a lot better about the sport now than I have for the past decade. The rule changes are allowing the next generation of stars to display their full talents and the grand old game might have one more popularity surge left in it.
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ESPN is down to 1 game a week and a playoff round. Fox basicly the same with playoffs and World Series.

TBS is similar. I can see the world series being in play next round.
 
Don CT said:
ESPN is down to 1 game a week and a playoff round. Fox basicly the same with playoffs and World Series.

TBS is similar. I can see the world series being in play next round.
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Will there be more ESPN games once the NBA and NHL playoffs are over? Mid-June to late August are pretty desolate for team sports outside of pre-season NFL and opening week NCAA toward the end.
 
CTListener said:
Will there be more ESPN games once the NBA and NHL playoffs are over? Mid-June to late August are pretty desolate for team sports outside of pre-season NFL and opening week NCAA toward the end.
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ESPN has games on + but they gave up on the midweek games.
 
Don CT said:
ESPN has games on + but they gave up on the midweek games.
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I know that. The midweek games are what I'm wondering about. You'd think a midweek game would attract more interest than boxing or tennis or 30 For 30 documentaries or whatever else they use to bridge the team sports gap. Of course, the huge audience that the Little League postseason attracts probably represents ESPN's major profit center in the summer.
 

ESPN to begin layoffs early next week as part of Disney cost cuts, sources say​

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ESPN to begin layoffs early next week as part of Disney cost cuts, sources say

ESPN will lay off both on-air talent and management as part of Disney's cost cutting efforts, sources say.
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ESPN will begin layoffs early next week as part of parent company Disney’s cost cutting efforts, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cuts will include some on-air talent and management, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private. The number of layoffs at ESPN is unclear and the decision process is still fluid.
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