The Sports Media Thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

Not sure it seems lateral as one shift a week and filling in.

He was an ok host.

[ice grillin you]

he isnt terrible just terribly boring...maybe he has a promise of more on air time down the road...i guess he could be a really good producer too and they offered more money

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah he was kinda boring...but better than some of the fill ins they'd use.

[ice grillin you]

Yeah he was kinda boring...but better than some of the fill ins they'd use.

i dont really hear a lot of the fill ins cause i only listen at work for the most part

[ice grillin you]

not sure if anyone saw this yesterday on espn but its fantastic.....just have a hanky handy

http://t.co/0j618jfVZA

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah I read the article but haven't seen the video yet. Awesome story

[PhillyPhreak54]

Olbermann is going back to ESPN.

Reportedly a two year deal that gives him a nightly one hour show on espn2.

ESPN doing this to help the sure to be surge of FS1 stealing ESPN viewers.

[MDS]

nothing will get the young eye balls quite like a 60 year old man who was last relevant in the sports world 15 years ago

[ice grillin you]

Olbermann is going back to ESPN.

Reportedly a two year deal that gives him a nightly one hour show on espn2.

ESPN doing this to help the sure to be surge of FS1 stealing ESPN viewers.

fox sports (like fox news) going for the blondes....espn going for the brains

[QB Eagles]

espn going for the brains

I might believe this to be the case if they said his show was replacing First Take.

[ice grillin you]

first take is money....dirty filthy money....but if you dont take it seriously its quite entertaining

[MDS]

espn has been dumbing down its shows for years.

sure they have stuff like otl, 30x30 to offset it, but what their research has told them is no one wants to see hilites anymore. so to fill the time between games they go for very loud, very colorful controversy. tim tebow, lebron james, johnny manziel, whatever. pick an issue, pick a person, pick a side and yell about it.

the embrace debate, have an opinion culture of the network is evident everywhere. the late sportscenter (the only one i watch) is still pretty good because they really only have to go over and show what happened that day. the rest of the network outside of game coverage and a few choice programs is lowest common denominator trash. they know the type of person who is at home at 11am on a thursday and they go for that dude.

fs1 will not be the intellectual happy hour. its fox. it looks like theyre going to make a conscious effort to not be loud and argumentative like espn. based on early ads it looks like theyre going more for fun and entertainment....whatever the farg that is. like jokes and skits and goofing around with jocks. yeah its lame.

[ice grillin you]

the only thing thats really dumbed down is sportscenter and thats because its on 24/7 now....they oversatured the network with it and it hurt its quality

everything else on espn is mostly great....obviously with four networks or whatever they have some of it going to be garbage but you can say that about any single network station as well.....espn hits waaaaaaay more than it misses

[Sgt PSN]

Things I watch on ESPN:

Live sporting events, press conferences, etc (sans The Decision)
The Sports Reporters
OTL
30 For 30
IX For Nine (completely unoriginal name, but whatever.  It's still pretty good shtein)
Classic rebroadcasts

Will sometimes watch:

SportsCenter
PTI

Avoid like the plague:

First Take
Dan Lebetard
Around The Horn
Any other program not already mentioned

[Geowhizzer]

Things I watch on ESPN:

1.  Actual games (where there's no other option).

Things I avoid:

Everything else.


Probably helps that I have two children that encroach on TV time, but I haven't watched any "original" ESPN programming in at least three years.