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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:21PM (1 child)
An actor spouting a political opinion is trying to impress an audience that consists of casting directors. The decision-makers in Hollywood do not often give roles to people who fail to signal that they are liberal. Public signaling is expected.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 01 2017, @06:18PM
I have to disagree on this one, simply because if you look at all the actors in Hollywood, not all of them talk politics. There's tons of them where there's no record of them saying anything political publicly. And not all of them are liberals either; Clint Eastwood is pretty famous for being Republican (and talking to a chair at one convention).