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Old 09-16-2009, 12:08 AM  
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-- ESPN - what do they do right? what do they do wrong?
Anything regarding ESPN (the channel) - marketing, stories, reporters, etc. etc...

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What do you like about the Network and what do you not like about them?

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Thanks in advance.
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Old 09-16-2009, 05:43 AM   #16
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Right- They show sports. Sometimes I even watch them. Erin Andrews

Wrong- They have the most irritating announcers for every sport. Besides football, I love baseball. I simply cannot watch a baseball game that has Jon Miller in the booth. He can make the most exciting game unwatchable. He flip flops between teams and drools on players worse than Madden could ever dream of doing.
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Old 09-16-2009, 06:21 AM   #17
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Old 09-16-2009, 06:47 AM   #18
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Right - Their NCAA Football and Basketball coverage is the best. If you love the Red Sox or Yankees, you probably love their Baseball coverage. Their MNF crew improved with the subtraction of Kornheiser. PTi is good at times and he should have just stayed there.

Wrong - The NFL pregame show sucks. Too many personalities that I don't care about and it just seems over-crowded. They could do with a bit of streamlining. They got rid of Max Kellerman, who is now on HBO. They continue to give air time to Stephen A Smith. No MMA show on the main channel and barely any coverage. They need to combine their boxing and MMA programming, but the boxing elitists probably campaign against it.
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Old 09-16-2009, 06:51 AM   #19
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Old 09-16-2009, 07:14 AM   #20
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Old 09-16-2009, 07:19 AM   #21
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Good - College football coverage.

Bad - Turned sports into People magazine. Too much attention to guys like Favre, TO, Chad, etc. Horrible decision not to report the Roethlisberger incident and send out a memo to all ESPN radio stations instructing them not to talk about it. Whether the allegations were true or not, it was newsworthy to mention it. They reported on Merriman's "attack". Conflict of interests with athletes and reporting, IMO.
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Old 09-16-2009, 08:21 AM   #22
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Right-They have by far the best NASCAR coverage and reporters. No boogity, boogity, boogity or Digger is worth the price of admission. When they are getting owned by someone rather than just take it, they hire them. PTI, OTL, E60, WSOP, college basketball broadcasts, current MNF crew, Triple Crown broadcasts, and sunday Sportscenter (once). Schefter, Mike Tirico, Gottleib, Jay Bilas, Mike Green, Jayson Stark, Trey Wingo, Bob Globber, Marty Smith, Ron Jaworski, Michael Smith, Wilbon, and Chris Berman.

Wrong- ESPN Yankees, ESPN Red Sox, ESPN Patriots, ESPN Cowboys. I understand they have to play to their audience, but please! MLB Tonight and everyone on it. Jim Rome and anything he does. Stuart Scott' isms, Lame halfass attempts to cover MMA, Dickie V, (sorry) Mort, Kiper, McShay, Erin Andrews(over it), Ed Werder, Kornheiser doing anythng but reading a prompter on PTI, all guest on Around the Horn except JA Adande, continued coverage of Kimbo Slice, and the gold medal dart thrower John Clayton.
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Old 09-16-2009, 08:22 AM   #23
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Right: Their coverage on gameday is unbeatable... games on several stations, constant updates, etc.

Right: On-campus coverage of college football & basketball with College Gameday.

Right: They easily have the best college basketball coverage, from broadcasts to Bracketology and Selection Sunday. When does CBS' contract expire?

Wrong: Like others have said, it's the gossip column of sports. With PTI, Rome is Burning, and Around the Horn, they basically have 3 shows that spew the same information in 3 different formats... all before Sportscenter, which does it a 4th time.

Wrong: Segmenting their shows between 400 commercial breaks per hour... no more College Gameday, no more NFL Countdown (which is probably the worst), no more SportsCenter. Of course, it's a problem with many television networks, but still, it's probably the biggest reason I don't watch any longer.

Wrong: It's all about ratings, not that it's unique to ESPN, but it makes what used to be great shows like College Gameday unwatchable due to their constant coverage of Notre Dame, Michigan, and Ohio State. It makes SportsCenter unwatchable due to their coverage of a select few athletes/attention whores.

Wrong: Their Big Televen contract for college football.... nothing gets you going on those Saturday chores like having to choose between Indiana/Purdue and Michigan State/Northwestern.

Wrong: Herm Edwards. Run into a burning AIDS tree.
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Old 09-16-2009, 08:24 AM   #24
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Biggest problem is their love affairs with certain athletes which cause them to become basically unwatchable if anything even remotely newsworthy happens to one of them. They cover that prick Favre like he's the President, Princess Diana and Michael Jackson rolled into a single person. If Favre farts they need 15 ****ing people to analyze the smell and tonal quality.

And I don't know how anybody outside of a 100% Notre Dame homer can stand Lou Holtz. **** I hate that rotten old bastard. All he does is suck off ND and the Big 10/11/Whatever, pay lip service to the major programs and disrespect everbody else. Absolutely ruins the college show, which is too bad, because the other guys are pretty good.

Other than that there's the obvious big city/coastal bias, but you get that from all of them so there's not much that can be done about it, other than to hope your non-coastal/big city team does well enough to merit their notice. The Cardinals generally do, and Mizzou occasionally does, so I guess I'm better off than most here.

I haven't watched their pregame show so far this year, so I'm not even sure who's on it at the moment. I do kind of like Berman, though.

Way too much coverage for shit like racing and golf, too.
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Old 09-16-2009, 08:26 AM   #25
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Old 09-16-2009, 08:27 AM   #26
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Before the Thursday night NFL game last week and then a couple hours on Saturday, I don't remember the last time I watched anything on ESPN/2/U/Classic.... probably not since March Madness.
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Old 09-16-2009, 08:58 AM   #27
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****. Every morning I sit on the couch mostly dead and watch Mike and Mike in the morning. It is mindless noise to wake me up some.

Today Greenburg put in a plug for ESPN BOSTON

You have got to be fist ****ing me.

Outside of any actual sporting event and mindless Mike and Mike, I don't watch ESPN. I used to watch NFL live and Sunday countdown when Jaws was doing both, now... Not so much. I used to try to catch college gameday, but ever since the "ZOMG TEH NASHIONUL CHAMPINCHIP SHULD BEZ MICHIGAN AND OHIO STATEZ!!!!1!!one" bullshit I'm friggin done. Oh and **** doctor lou. Does ANYONE take this guy seriously?

I used to try to catch PTI when I was in college, but it's not worth working around my work schedule.

Occasionally I'll turn on Sports Center for noise but have to change it for their half ass attempts at a catch phrase. That shit drives me crazy.
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Old 09-16-2009, 09:54 AM   #30
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Their problem is they are always looking for stories about players with attitudes. I prefer SPORTS from a sports channel, not bullshit T.O. every hour on the hour, especially, when T.O. says nothing and they still go after him. Too much drama these days.
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