Boner Stabone

May 31st, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^

Wow,  he is one of the go to guys for everything NFL.  Whoever is in charge at ESPN is driving the enterprise into the ground.  Did Dave Brandon switch jobs without me knowing?

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Steve in PA

May 31st, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^

How long until ESPN goes to a subscription based streaming service like HBOGo?  It seems to me that may be the only way to save the ship.  Last numbers I could find was that cable providers pay $6 per sub for the ESPN family.  $4(or less)/cable sub and $10 per streaming subscriber may work.

Cable subs will bring in the steady revenue and streaming subs will provide additional revenues during sports seasons.

 

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Huma

May 31st, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^

You are right that something likely needs to change but you are missing a big data point in your analysis. It is $6 for every cable subscriber whether they want ESPN or not. Going to subscription service would absolutely crush their cable subscriber model and would ultimately lead to them losing that free money from cable subscribers that don't even want ESPN. It would be higher $$ / subscriber but significantly lower volume.



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SFBayAreaBlue

May 31st, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^

Even though he was wrong sometimes, he was by far one of the less annoying people they had.  

 

I blame this on the ridculuous contracts they paid for CFB and NFL games and not being able to see the cordcutting trend that's going on now. 

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Charmandar

May 31st, 2017 at 6:00 PM ^

Yeah it isn't losing millions in revenue through the millions of people dropping cable while also overpaying for the rights to Monday Night Football, the NBA, and the SEC, but some magical political agenda. Give me a break. Go back to watching infowars

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nerv

May 31st, 2017 at 4:36 PM ^

Well always have the Slayer commercial John.

Hopefully he bounces back as he was one of their better personalities.

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Perkis-Size Me

May 31st, 2017 at 4:48 PM ^

ESPN is leaving only the loud-mouthed entertainers who specialize in tweeting and generating. Sadly that's what news has largely devolved into these days.

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Michifornia

May 31st, 2017 at 7:24 PM ^

He was a little peculiar but man his stuff was always spot on.  I really hope another sports station can takes over as #1 sooner than later.

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turtleboy

June 1st, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^

He was always one of my favorite football analysts. It was a slight shock to me when we hired Harbaugh, and he was visibly upset about it reading the news. Taking that years smartest NFL hires he ranked the bills #1 hiring Rex Ryan, and Michigan #2 hiring Harbaugh, and looked just pissed the whole time reading it, as though it was the stupidest thing he'd ever heard of for a coach to leave the NFL for college.

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