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on Wednesday November 01 2017, @11:58AM
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. I've written for the past couple of years that as ESPN's business collapses that ESPN's decision on whether or not to bid to keep Monday Night Football would be the first big test of how rapidly that business is deteriorating.
What's a deteriorating business look like? In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates.
15,000 a day!
Losing 15,000 subscribers per day is a lot, but is that because of the NFL anthem protests or because cord-cutting has finally reached a tipping point?
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ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @03:01PM (2 children)
> They are highly paid entertainers and I do not want to be subjected to their personal politics when I am paying for entertainment.
You might have a point... if they protested during the game. Or if you consider "standing for national anthem" entertainment, I suppose...
> If I want politics, I'll turn on C-SPAN.
LOL. Good luck with that :D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @09:10PM (1 child)
It really doesn't matter what you say, reality still won't change. Americans feel disgusted, rather than entertained, by people who won't stand for their national anthem. Doesn't matter whether they're visually subjected to it or not, it's the people doing the kneeling which are now the object of disgust. Fans will thus watch less football, and if it continues, find something else to do altogether. Snarky remarks do nothing but make the speaker look pathetic to those who do care about this sort of thing.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Roger Murdock on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:39AM
I think this might be part of the issue. If people don't stand for the national anthem in my country I do what's known as "not giving a shit".