CaneFan79
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/looks-another-one-espns-most-154837631.html
Yes, from our clueless "friends" at Yahoo.
You have to love this line:
"But Berman's history as a highlights personality would not seem to fit with the direction of most sports networks as they move more toward debate and commentary."
Of course they are moving to the "Embrace Debate" model, because it is CHEAP!! E$ECPN shot itself in the foot by overpaying for rights fees...fees they pay to their own competition! Berman does the NFL Draft, but so does NFL Network! Heck NFL Network's .com site covers College Football too. Couple that with rampant cord cutting (consumers have figured out E$ECPN is the costly channel and if they don't like sports, away the cord goes), the relative staleness of what they overpaid for recently (21st Century NASCAR, the soft fix NBA, MLB, Longhorn Network) and you have a recipe that blows holes in your business model. Bristol is hemoraging cash and getting rid of Berman doesn't help much in keeping The Mouse from ordering more firings at the suit level.
Eventually, E$ECPN may need to bring George Grande back just to talk, Stephen A. and Skip style, to about the same number of viewers in 1979.
Yes, from our clueless "friends" at Yahoo.
You have to love this line:
"But Berman's history as a highlights personality would not seem to fit with the direction of most sports networks as they move more toward debate and commentary."
Of course they are moving to the "Embrace Debate" model, because it is CHEAP!! E$ECPN shot itself in the foot by overpaying for rights fees...fees they pay to their own competition! Berman does the NFL Draft, but so does NFL Network! Heck NFL Network's .com site covers College Football too. Couple that with rampant cord cutting (consumers have figured out E$ECPN is the costly channel and if they don't like sports, away the cord goes), the relative staleness of what they overpaid for recently (21st Century NASCAR, the soft fix NBA, MLB, Longhorn Network) and you have a recipe that blows holes in your business model. Bristol is hemoraging cash and getting rid of Berman doesn't help much in keeping The Mouse from ordering more firings at the suit level.
Eventually, E$ECPN may need to bring George Grande back just to talk, Stephen A. and Skip style, to about the same number of viewers in 1979.
