Karma: ESPN Headed for Second Straight Year of Falling Profit

[PatsWickedPissah]

English is my second language. What is a flog ?

English is my primary language. I have no clue but guess it's Aussie for wanker.

 

[varjao]

And what is a wanker, I just know English are wankers

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Hopefully they sell it to some parent company that will drain the swamp.

I very much doubt that Disney will find a Buyer for it without selling it off in pieces.

As an entity, ESPN is an anachronism (Mortenson being a prime example) with little or no economic value beyond the (formidable) value of its broadcast contracts, ranging from Cricket and Rugby to the sports more familiar to the American audience.

I could see Disney selling the Cricket and Rugby franchises to various Emerging Market media empires. The European Soccer rights could be sold to one of the major French, German or British outlets. There would be plenty of buyers for the US Sports contracts. Etc.

In other words, this could easily be broken up by selling off the broadcast rights and then, Poof!, No More ESPN. It would just evaporate.

 

[Dorito Dink]

I own a good bit of Disney stock and wish they'd dump ESPN altogether. The stock has been doing well as of late in spite of ESPN. At this point, divest and get something while you can from that god forsaken sinking ship.

 

[fightingirish595]

They keep losing subscribers

 

[TheFlyingWedge]

With the Star Wars franchise breaking box office records every year like this, Disney can weather some bad ESPN years no problem. Btw: anyone see Rogue One? Best Star Wars since Empire imo.

 

[Galeb]

And what is a wanker, I just know English are wankers

That's frickin hilarious! I love the Scots.

 

[Clonamery]

He's a self entitled, bloviating wanker who never met a problem he couldn't singlehandedly solve.

Perfect for ESPN.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

That's frickin hilarious! I love the Scots.

Sadly true. My ancestors were "colonized by wankers" FFS!

 

[Tony2046]

And the deflation continues: (Article is dated Feb 8, 2017)

ESPN Profit Plummets As Network Turns Left

Every single day this year ESPN has lost roughly 10,000 cable and satellite subscribers.



Per day!

Per Nielsen's most recent estimates ESPN now has 87,859,000 cable and satellite subscribers. That's a loss of over 13 million cable and satellite subscribers in the past several years, costing ESPN in the neighborhood of $1.3 billion dollars per year. ($7.30 a month in affiliate fees x 12 months x 13 million households).

 

[Real World]

ESPN went MTV, and as they say, the rest is history. $%&# them.

 

[fair catch fryar]

I want Monday Night Football on Fox Sports!

Heck. I'd take it on DIY Network if it meant I didn't have to tune into ESPN.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

I won't be happy with falling profits. I want INCREASING losses.

Would a fall like this suit you?

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

 

[deroc5050]

ESPN went MTV, and as they say, the rest is history. $%&# them.

**** MTV and ESPN.. I hate both channels and now go out of my way not to watch either one... in fact my cable box hasn't clicked on MTV in 10 years at least. ESPN I have grown to hate over the last 2-3 years.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

English is my primary language. I have no clue but guess it's Aussie for wanker.

English is my primary language, what is a wanker?