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ESPN layoffs are coming soon — and nearly everyone is vulnerable
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Linda Cohn most likely.
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Sure they do. They talk about city and county financing and support of the new stadium or crowd control in the parking lots or reactions to taking a knee or sociopolitical comments by players.
I am not talking about "Vote for Me" politics. I am talking about the involvement of teams and players in their community, player behaviour in public and their team's support for today's issues.
You don't think that every commentator here in LA was not talking about the recent Pride Month invitation by the Dodgers to a controversial appearance of an anti-religion group of drag performers?
You are defining "politics" to be "about politicians" where it is really anything to do with public policy... from social issues to issue based positions.
And you are playing "ready, fire, aim" without knowing anything about me and my work. That defines you as being totally unthinking and biased
You don't even know the meaning of "politics" and its link with sports through money, social issues and core beliefs.
Advice: count slowly to 999,999 before responding with further insults and defamation.
Completely disrespectful, Street Novelist. You lost all credibility after your first sentence. You had the potential to land some anecdotal points, but that is now lost.
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But does NHL.
When there's a huge RIF at any company, the workload on the survivors increases. At ESPN, people will have to take on new responsibilities or management will find cheaper talent that will. Max Kellerman was let go. Someone else will have to cover boxing, if not for a regular show but for coverage within SportsCenter. Cohn does NHL, but that doesn't mean she can't pull a SportsCenter anchor shift, be a replacement on ESPN Radio, etc.
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She does and can use Larry Beil as his side kick Eaves can do Boxing because does MMA and Tessimore does Boxing know.
The Disney cuts have now expanded to ABC Audio. This follows the announcement last week that ABC News Radio and SkyView will part ways at the end of the year:
www.insideradio.com
The question is: Are ABC News Radio and ESPN Radio going to combine staffs, or will they simply shut down?
Veteran ABC Audio Execs Exit In Latest Round Of Disney Cuts.
A trio of veteran execs at ABC Audio/ABC News Radio vacated their positions on Friday as part of wide-ranging cutbacks at parent company the Walt Disney Co. Exiting their positions
The question is: Are ABC News Radio and ESPN Radio going to combine staffs, or will they simply shut down?
That's going to leave an awful lot of sports-format stations scrambling for programming. Even stations that don't have the ESPN brand use ESPN Radio programming as filler overnights and weekends, not to mention as streaming filler during play-by-play that they don't have the rights to stream. EMF must be licking its chops at some of the FMs that might become available with a shutdown of ESPN Radio.The Disney cuts have now expanded to ABC Audio. This follows the announcement last week that ABC News Radio and SkyView will part ways at the end of the year:
Veteran ABC Audio Execs Exit In Latest Round Of Disney Cuts.
A trio of veteran execs at ABC Audio/ABC News Radio vacated their positions on Friday as part of wide-ranging cutbacks at parent company the Walt Disney Co. Exiting their positions
The question is: Are ABC News Radio and ESPN Radio going to combine staffs, or will they simply shut down?
Actually ESPN sold its last station KRDC-AM in LA) a few weeks ago, so they're not in the station business anymore. But they are in the brand business, and that's where the radio service fits. Both ESPN Radio and ABC News Radio are brand extensions, in the way the old Disney Radio was. I know ESPN has pbp radio deals with MLB and a few other major events, so they wouldn't want to lose them. But running a 24/7 programming feed is not cost effective today.
Disney had an FM in Dallas (KESN) that they had LMA'd to Cumulus. But Cumulus dropped the LMA, and Disney ended up selling the station to VCY about a year ago. They sold some other ones (such as WEPN NY) to Good Karma. WEPN is actually an LMA with Emmis, but now programmed by GK. Good Karma also bought KSPN in LA.
The Lakers And Good Karma Brands Extend Deal. Games To Remain on KSPN.
It’s a mid-season renewal for the Los Angeles Lakers and “ESPN LA 710” KSPN as the franchise inks an extension with the sports outlet, which recently changed hands from the
Most of the ESPN Radio affiliates seem to be on AM, in markets where basket-case stations want network filler for most of their broadcast schedule.
We have a weird situation on FM in Houston, where KFNC is branded as “ESPN 97-5.” But ESPN Radio is used only as overnight and some weekend fill. On top of that, the station is owned by Gow Media, which runs ESPN competitor SportsMap Radio. I suspect they would rebrand and flip over to their own network output if there was a shutdown of ESPN Radio.
My take is that the suits at ESPN are trying to figure out if they can retain the branding on these stations without retaining the 24/7 programming, because that's become a huge expense at a time when ad revenue is very low. The dayparts when stations want the programming are the exact dayparts the advertisers don't want to buy. So having lots of affiliates on the weekends or overnights when there's no revenue makes no sense. That's what they have to figure out.
In Hartford, WUCS 97.9 is branded ESPN 97-9 and is all ESPN Radio outside of a p.m. drive show and various play-by-play sports. It's a iHeart station with severe coverage problems to the south of the city due to co-channel and adjacent-channel signals from New York City and Norwich, CT.
Interview with a former ESPN host:
www.insideradio.com
Dismissed From ESPN Radio, Jason Fitz Is ‘Shocked’ But Grateful.
Jason Fitz, who went from playing fiddle in The Band Perry to a second career as a sports talk host, said he was “shocked” that he was one of those
Kimberly Perry's got a single out now. Maybe she'll get the band back together.Interview with a former ESPN host:
Dismissed From ESPN Radio, Jason Fitz Is ‘Shocked’ But Grateful.
Jason Fitz, who went from playing fiddle in The Band Perry to a second career as a sports talk host, said he was “shocked” that he was one of those
Could WUCS go it alone without ESPN programing and keep the Yankees UConn coverage.
What would its options be? Are Fox Sports Radio and CBS Sports Radio still 24/7 operations? Any small-time operations like Sports Byline USA (if that's still around) to provide on-the-cheap gab?
Mark Jackson Laid Off By ESPN With Doris Burke And Doc Rivers Slated As Replacements
Add Mark Jackson to the list of ESPN reporters and commentators who have been laid off over the past five weeks. Jackson was let go on Monday with two years remaining on his contract. With Jeff Van Gundy also being laid off in late June, ESPN is expected to replace them with Doris Burke and […]
tvnewscheck.com
Mark Jackson is out at ESPN.
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