ESPN Is Dying for 5 Reasons That Any Sports Fan Will Definitely Understand

[big dog cowboy]

I watch it for the sports. All the other crap shows they have are worthless.

Give me sports and I'll watch. Give me screaming political talk shows, uh no.

 

[Duane]

It used to be that ESPN had great journalist and programs that weren't based on nonsense. Over the last few years they've fired their best reporters and focused on reality TV type drama. I don't have the patience to watch that type of junk when I can tune into NFL Network, the Olympic Channel, or any other number of channels that just report on sports.

So I simply don't watch ESPN unless there is a game on TV that I can see anywhere else.

 

[DFWJC]

ESPN Is Dying for 5 Reasons That Any Sports Fan Will Definitely Understand

Disney owned sports network ESPN has been struggling mightily of late. And when looking at several key trends, the struggle will likely continue.

Doug Kass, The Street
September 16, 2017 5:33 PM EDT

Disney ( DIS - Get Report) owned ESPN is on the rocks, and it's unlikely the situation will improve anytime soon.

Here are some of my concerns about ESPN that lie even beyond the cord cutting issues:

1. The American consumer is now over-saturated with sports.
2. Professional sports ratings are down for the third year in a row.
3. Consumers are no longer, with consistency, watching entire sporting events. More and more, with less time available in the day, consumers are instead watching highlights on ESPN.com and elsewhere, rather than the complete games. (Participation in the sport of golf -- which takes over four hours for a round -- has faced the same problem for a decade now.)

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I think they left off one the obvious reasons, but don't wish to be guy who ends the thread.