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Benne posted:So NBCSN has cancelled Michelle Beadle's show The Crossover. That makes me think about how ESPN at this point is bigger than the personalities. For example, I don't think Erin has been talked about as much either ever since she left them for Fox. And since you brought up sailing, ESPN used to make it a big deal when they had the America's Cup years ago. Some things never change. e: Here's an article from 1992 about that: http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/sports/sp-1211_1_world-series Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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I moonlight as a play-by-play announcer for a local cable channel that covers area high school and college sports. Broadcasting is an interesting beast and knowing what goes into our relatively bush league stuff every day, I can't even imagine the chaos surrounding big time networks like ESPN, NBC, FS1, etc. Live TV is basically controlled chaos, and oftentimes there's very little control.
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Vertical Lime posted:That makes me think about how ESPN at this point is bigger than the personalities. For example, I don't think Erin has been talked about as much either ever since she left them for Fox. I think Beadle is a breakout star waiting to happen, and it's kind of baffling that NBC doesn't know what to do with her. NBC is now gearing up for the NHL, and Beadle has hinted that she wants to do more hockey coverage, so something might happen there, but who knows. She deserves more than Access Hollywood and throwaway mid-afternoon studio gigs.
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Well this is getting ugly http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013..._medium=twitter quote:Following the cancelation of The Crossover earlier this week, Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead is reporting that Michelle Beadle is in talks to leave NBC and return to ESPN.
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Sep 27, 2013 19:05
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Also, Beadle is on far from gracious terms with her former NBCSN co-host. I don't blame her for going back at this point. As for what I said about Erin: John Ourand@Ourand_SBJ Source: FS1's Fox College Saturday drew just 50,000 viewers last week -- a number that is on par with a 1am "Macgyver" rerun on Cloo Monday.
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Jason Whitlock has officially ruined my love for PTI. I think Wilbon and Tony are well above the typical ESPN dreck, but this rear end in a top hat is just regurgitating the same idiocy that the channel always has. I am certain you all know this, but it's a very sad day for me.
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Sep 27, 2013 22:42
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Parlett316 posted:You guys love feeding the machine. I was always willing to make an exception for PTI when Wilbon+Kornheiser are actually on. Their subs are dreadful though, I get enough Bob Ryan on Around the Horn thanks
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Sep 27, 2013 23:26
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Vertical Lime posted:Also, Beadle is on far from gracious terms with her former NBCSN co-host. I don't blame her for going back at this point. To be fair is anything on that channel aside from football and live UFC a draw?
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MourningView posted:To be fair is anything on that channel aside from football and live UFC a draw? Onrait and O'Toole
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MourningView posted:To be fair is anything on that channel aside from football and live UFC a draw? Just like how NBC Sportsnet only has hockey, Olympic stuff when it's on and maybe EPL as draws. That's what happens when only the ESPN channels gets any ratings for non-event stuff.
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DJExile posted:Onrait and O'Toole I think they're good at what they do, but aren't they getting absolutely destroyed in the ratings so far? Anyway, on the college pregame thing, I don't think anyone is going to be able to seriously challenge Gameday. That's a really well done show for what it is, and it's an institution at this point. Being on campus when that show is in town is crazy, and I think most big college football fans are just in the habit of flipping it on as soon as they wake up.
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MourningView posted:I think they're good at what they do, but aren't they getting absolutely destroyed in the ratings so far? so far yeah, i think part of it is just a relative lack of promoting them and the network on any channels other than Fox.
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DJExile posted:so far yeah, i think part of it is just a relative lack of promoting them and the network on any channels other than Fox. They literally spent millions and millions of dollars promoting the channel for months up to the launch on like every network known to man
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Scob posted:They literally spent millions and millions of dollars promoting the channel for months up to the launch on like every network known to man Did they? Maybe I havent' seen much then. V  V
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If you can take Outdoor Life Network, add an uncomfortable amount of cagefighting and hockey until you have to rename it "Versus", and then stick a peacock logo on it and make people suddenly accept it as a serious sports channel then FS1 shouldn't be having much of any problem. People associate the NBA with TNT of all channels, so recognition can be easily had. Fox News wasn't what it became overnight, either. Give them a bit to begin really leveraging their licenses with NFL, etc. Though I don't know if they're going to be able to pull baseball fans away from MLB Network, I'm under the impression there's not many of those anyway.
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Craptacular! posted:If you can take Outdoor Life Network, add an uncomfortable amount of cagefighting and hockey until you have to rename it "Versus", and then stick a peacock logo on it and make people suddenly accept it as a serious sports channel then FS1 shouldn't be having much of any problem. People associate the NBA with TNT of all channels, so recognition can be easily had. It helps that Inside the NBA on TNT is probably the single best sports program on TV too. I know people who don't even watch the NBA who will tune into it to watch Charles Barkley jabber about this and that. I know I set my DVR to record it when I can only watch parts of games. It really is that good.
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Craptacular! posted:If you can take Outdoor Life Network, add an uncomfortable amount of cagefighting and hockey until you have to rename it "Versus", and then stick a peacock logo on it and make people suddenly accept it as a serious sports channel then FS1 shouldn't be having much of any problem. People associate the NBA with TNT of all channels, so recognition can be easily had. the only people who take NBCSN seriously are hockey fans
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sportsgenius86 posted:the only people who take NBCSN seriously are hockey fans  Benne posted:I think Beadle is a breakout star waiting to happen, and it's kind of baffling that NBC doesn't know what to do with her. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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Josh Lyman posted:What about Premiere League viewers? I bet both of those stops got her more money so the agent is probably doing their job.
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MourningView posted:To be fair is anything on that channel aside from football and live UFC a draw? Vertical Lime posted:Just like how NBC Sportsnet only has hockey, Olympic stuff when it's on and maybe EPL as draws. That's what happens when only the ESPN channels gets any ratings for non-event stuff. Both might get a boost sooner than later if ESPN and TNT bail on NASCAR a year early, as has been rumored.
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sportsgenius86 posted:the only people who take NBCSN seriously are hockey fans Their Formula 1 and IndyCar coverage is Supberb. Seriously, Leigh Diffey is really good. also, in regards to NBC Sports: quote:NBC Sports Network is dumping the show that featured a guy shooting an elephant in the face. The show—hosted by NRA lobbyist Tony Makris—isn't being canceled for that episode with the elephant shooting, exactly (though that didn't help). Instead it's because Makris compared his critics to Hitler earlier this week. He said of his supposed critics: "And now they're shocked. And they said but they're so big and special and they're smarter. And I went, you know, Hitler would have said the same thing." That didn't go over well. wait...what? How does that even...? http://deadspin.com/nbc-sports-network-cancels-nra-sponsored-elephant-hunti-1417367389
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I like NBCSN's programming in general, but yeah, they do have a ton of bad hunting shows that they use as filler.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I like NBCSN's programming in general, but yeah, they do have a ton of bad hunting shows that they use as filler.
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Crazy Ted posted:Likely because that filler would have a small, but dedicated, audience. I've heard of reports saying on certain days those are the highest-rated shows on the network. More obviously, they're holdovers from OLN.
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Sep 28, 2013 19:48
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Not sure where to put this since only like 5 SAS posters care but Comcast filed for CSN Houston to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Astros are claiming they haven't been paid for the last three months and were about to pull out.
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chunkles posted:Not sure where to put this since only like 5 SAS posters care but Comcast filed for CSN Houston to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Astros are claiming they haven't been paid for the last three months and were about to pull out. That's not good.
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So starting Monday from 4-7 PM Eastern, Dan LeBatard is taking over the afternoon show on ESPN Radio nationally. Looking forward to it.
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chunkles posted:Not sure where to put this since only like 5 SAS posters care but Comcast filed for CSN Houston to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Astros are claiming they haven't been paid for the last three months and were about to pull out.
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Quick Poll: Worst pre-game show? I have to go with CBS and ESPN being tied at the top. Shannon Sharpe is awful, as is Ray Lewis. FOX is also awful. NBC is probably the best (even with Peter King.), along with NFL Network.
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CBS Sports Network's is the best, because I haven't seen it.
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chunkles posted:Not sure where to put this since only like 5 SAS posters care but Comcast filed for CSN Houston to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Astros are claiming they haven't been paid for the last three months and were about to pull out. The only situation that I'm happy to be an out of market fan. Wooo, what a disaster.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Quick Poll: They're all pretty lovely now. Every year they keep getting bigger and bigger. It used to be fine when it was like, 3 guys. Now ESPN has the entire pro bowl team from 1994 on their pregame show. Pretty soon it's going to look like a college lecture hall.
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I don't know why ESPN hasn't learned from their own College Gameday show that less is more. If you want to have a celebrity pick some games, fine, but the show itself is pretty much Fowler, Corso, Herbie, and Howard and they haven't really tried to gently caress with it at all. Meanwhile Sunday NFL Countdown/Monday Night Countdown keeps adding more and more people to it. Do we need to have Trent Dilfer and Ray Lewis ALSO opining on the game we're about to see? Do we need to have 10 people pick a game? How about the interns, can they pick too?
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Quest For Glory II posted:I don't know why ESPN hasn't learned from their own College Gameday show that less is more. If you want to have a celebrity pick some games, fine, but the show itself is pretty much Fowler, Corso, Herbie, and Howard and they haven't really tried to gently caress with it at all. Meanwhile Sunday NFL Countdown/Monday Night Countdown keeps adding more and more people to it. Do we need to have Trent Dilfer and Ray Lewis ALSO opining on the game we're about to see? Do we need to have 10 people pick a game? How about the interns, can they pick too? I'd support a show where Costas was forced to put on a Steely McBeam mask.
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Smoltz is by far the best of the choices and Smoltz is really horrible.
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God if it's Smoltz he'll never go away. At least you could probably force Verducci to duck out of the booth by lighting a match near his hair
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zakharov posted:*Jaws music plays* Thank you baby Jesus for letting MLB.tv not be blacked out by Fox next year.
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