ESPN layoffs: Ryan Clark gone and more to come | (Updated: ) Tom Pelissero expected to be out at NFL Network

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To me, this is just economics. ESPN doesn’t have the eyeballs it once did. Too much dilution in the market.

Pelissero surprised me more than Clarke but both will he just fine.

I actually really enjoy the Pivot and think it does pretty well financially. He shows a different side there and I like the conversations they have.

So it isn’t like he’s totally out of work.

I literally don’t remember the last time I watched anything on ESPN other than a live event broadcast.

Drastic change from the 90’s when I started and ended my day with sportscenter.

It really just is economics and somewhat predicting (guessing) the market shifts. It is pretty clear ESPN wants to go all in live sports and supplement that with Sportscenter, which now has basically interchangeable anchors (by design), and a couple of big name brands like Mcafee and Stephen A.

The main reason Mcafee and Stephen A thrive is because they have perfected the "art" of 30 second takes/bits/reactions that ESPN can clip for Tik Tok and social media. Short form content is how the new generation consumes everything to the point where you watch a movie or TV show on Netflix the protagonist will literally recap the plot at a couple different points in the movie because they know the audience is on their phone. This is also why media literacy is at an all time low but that is a story for another day.