OT: ESPN losing $75 million on the Texans/Raiders game

[RelocatedPatFan]

Being the paid shills for Roger the Dodger isn't as lucrative as it used to be. ESPN has been bending over for the NFL for decades and the NFL keeps on screwing them over.

Seems like a pattern

 

[tasmlab]

One of these teams is going to play in the divisional round too. Probably against the Patriots. A lot of people might take a pass on that game as well.

 

[Galeb]

Sucks to suck.

A common belief amongst those who are married.

 

[Sfpat]

Add in production costs and the losses for BSPN will be even greater than stated

 

[jri37]

Is that Mark Brunell I hear sobbing.

 

[SVN]

Another way of looking at it is that the NFL is charging 100m per playoff game from ESPN. They certainly arent losing any money.

 

[PatsDeb]

Even though I couldn't care less about how much $$ ESPN is going to lose, is it really going to be that bad? Are any of you not going to watch just because it's two QB-less teams? It is a playoff game, and our team will probably play the winner, so I am going to watch, as will many Steelers & Chiefs fans. I'm actually looking forward to a little Benny Hill comedy. I think NFL viewership has been up recently, due to a rash of better contests. Even though this may not be a marquis-QB contest, it's still the playoffs. I don't think it will be as bad as they predict. How about that NFL, though? Really helping out its business partner (and maybe dooming them if ESPN can't recover from its losses) in giving them a good game.

 

[jmt57]

While I am reveling in the schadenfreude, I am a bit skeptical. The author simply inserts the two numbers ($100 million for the game, $25 million in revenue) into the column without citing any sources.

Wouldn't the advertising time have been negotiated and sold months ago?

Here's a link to the original article - which does have some humorous lines.

ESPN Will Lose $75 Million Televising Raiders-Texans

It's a battle between Matt McGloin/Connor Cook and Tom Savage/Brock Osweiler for the right to advance to play the New England Patriots and be executed on live television.

.....

Putting this wild card cost into context, the best deal in televised sports right now is CBS's to carry the top game in the SEC every week. CBS pays $55 million a year for this right, or an average of $3.5 million per game. This means that the SEC title game, which is also included in this package, costs $96.5 million less than the NFL Wild Card game on ESPN. And that the entire SEC on CBS package costs $45 million less than the single NFL wild card game airing on ESPN.

Not surprisingly, the SEC on CBS is wildly profitable.

This means the wild card game on ESPN is the worst contract in the history of American sports on television and I'm not sure there's even a close second. Between now and 2021, when this contract runs out, ESPN will lose over $600 million airing this one crappy wild card game a year.

.....

Putting this contract into terms that everyone can easily understand, the NFL is the guy telling ESPN to squeal like a pig in Deliverance.​

 

[TomPatriot]

ESPN Will Reportedly Lose $75 Million Because of Texans/Raiders Wild Card Game


Oh this sucks.....

I felt badly until I remembered the title of that Jackie McMullen ESPN hit piece: "Arrogance Breeds Consequences."

 

[The Brandon Five]

Time to lay off some "talent".

Curse of the deflategate liars. Colts, Ravens, AND ESPN. Here's hoping it extends to the NFL front office too.

And the Giants.

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

Wow, you would think being Goodell's cheerleader would give them something. haha, serves them right

Maybe, the newest "gate" will be released by bspn for the NFL to give them the viewers they will lose for the lousy game.

 

[ausbacker]

Ravens ?
Colts ?
ESPN ?
Goodell

Oh I can't wait to see what karma has in store for the last one.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Thank you, Commissioner Goodell.

Meanwhile, I often wonder what the real value is for the above. Is there anyone who is going to watch the Wild Card game this weekend really going to watch more ESPN that they weren't otherwise planning to watch? I'm mean, it's not like I am going to watch Saturday's game and all of a sudden decide I also want to watch NCAA Basketball on Monday night.

Obviously you can make any comment you want, however, historical reading is fundamental. Calling me "Commissioner Goodell" with my numerous anti Goodell posts (and for some reason Patsfan erased my Adolf Goodell sig pic) is reaching a gross level of ignorance that qualifies you for free VIP membership with the Gang Green Think Tank.

I provided you facts. The NFL remains the gold standard for advertisers because it attracts younger viewers and they watch live (no FF thru commercials) as well as segue them into watching other shows. This is why the networks will pay all but losing numbers of money to the NFL. That isn't an endorsement for slime Goodell and it isn't dismissing the tangible and deserved drop in viewership, that is plain reality. Yet continue to feel free to stomp your foot, hold your breath and say no! no! no! it isn't.

 

[Haterproof]

Even though I couldn't care less about how much $$ ESPN is going to lose, is it really going to be that bad? Are any of you not going to watch just because it's two QB-less teams? It is a playoff game, and our team will probably play the winner, so I am going to watch, as will many Steelers & Chiefs fans. I'm actually looking forward to a little Benny Hill comedy. I think NFL viewership has been up recently, due to a rash of better contests. Even though this may not be a marquis-QB contest, it's still the playoffs. I don't think it will be as bad as they predict. How about that NFL, though? Really helping out its business partner (and maybe dooming them if ESPN can't recover from its losses) in giving them a good game.

Luckily I live in Houston and I can watch the game on one of the local channels instead of BSPN

 

[XLIX]

Obviously you can make any comment you want, however, historical reading is fundamental. Calling me "Commissioner Goodell" with my numerous anti Goodell posts (and for some reason Patsfan erased my Adolf Goodell sig pic) is reaching a gross level of ignorance that qualifies you for free VIP membership with the Gang Green Think Tank.

Frankie says relax. You gave a schpiel that could have been drafted in NFL HQ itself and I called you out on it. Don't take yourself so seriously.

 

[Ochmed Jones]

ESPN is a bloated inefficient and wasteful organization.

They have lost all fiscal control and accountability, which is the iger way.

If someone with a bit of sense went in there and cut all the excesses and fat, it would easily cut half of the overall expenses.

 

[Bill Lee]

To put it in perspective, BSPN will be losing as much money in one night as the Texans lost on Ostweiler's entire contract!

 

[deroc5050]

Even though I couldn't care less about how much $$ ESPN is going to lose, is it really going to be that bad? Are any of you not going to watch just because it's two QB-less teams? It is a playoff game, and our team will probably play the winner, so I am going to watch, as will many Steelers & Chiefs fans. I'm actually looking forward to a little Benny Hill comedy. I think NFL viewership has been up recently, due to a rash of better contests. Even though this may not be a marquis-QB contest, it's still the playoffs. I don't think it will be as bad as they predict. How about that NFL, though? Really helping out its business partner (and maybe dooming them if ESPN can't recover from its losses) in giving them a good game.

I will watch but only because the Patriots are in the playoffs.. Lets say I was an Eagles or 49'ers fan.. I could give 2 ****s about the Raiders vs Texans WC match up. The other 20 teams fans that are not in the playoffs probably won't watch.

 

[dafoe2016]

Good. Watching this collection of scumbags slide into irrelevance and eventual death will be one of the greatest sports events of my lifetime. a la carte cable programming is going to do to them what Ray Lewis does to people in dark alleyways.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Heartbreaking news. I feel terrible for them.