Being in the industry, where do you see the future being? Whispers have been that Netflix may try to break into sports...that would make sense to me, but they've come out and denied that recently.
The NFL and NBA have way too many analysts, with barely any standouts. That's where I would start, not with dudes like werder and bucci.
They got rid of Ethan Strauss. He's been covering the Warriors for a few years. I enjoy him on the Truehoop pod
My money's on Amazon. They've got an interesting habit of storming in and swinging a ton of money around to get exclusives behind their Prime paywall.
As soon as I get a reliable, HD, easy to access way to watch Blazer games comcast is getting cut for me. I'd love it if Amazon/Netflix were able to get into the game.
They're just going to continue to dumb down their product. The fact that Dilfer and Werder are gone and SAS keeps his job is all you need to know about ESPN and THEIR loyal viewers. Dumb people. It's the only thing that is working for ESPN. Keep the dumb viewers. Side bar: I see a lot of political talk on twitter regarding ESPN's firings. Right leaning folks claim their dwindling viewership is due to ESPN being left leaning. Wondering if any of the repubs here have stopped watching ESPN because of their apparent left political leanings? I, for one, don't think this has anything whatsoever to do with their dwindling viewership but it's worth asking, I guess?
Calvin Watkins fired as well. He covered HOU. Wonder what happens to KPelton. He's the ESPN guy in POR. Edit: Justin Verrier (NO), Robin Lundberg (radio dude but solid hoops knowledge), gone as well. OK, maybe they are getting rid of NBA dudes too
It's funny because I didn't use them for box scores/highlights in the past because they were always horrible........ but NBA.com is such a steaming pile of shit now, I basically had to go back to ESPN. It has nothing to do with politics. I just think their product isn't very good. I also think you get better coverage from local guys. But really, are any of the national websites any good? Sports Illustrated? Fox Sports? Sporting News? They're all pretty bad. I think you're better off getting your news from a source like Reddit, which pulls from all of those sites as well as Twitter.
It might have given me some pause for sure, because its blatant. But I guess its the same as SNL and that's even more left leaning but I still watch cause the product is decent. The main reason i don't watch as much is because of shows like Jamell hill and michael smith getting a primetime SC slot and then all of their other daily content that seems to get worse and worse
