September 19, 2005
Today's Top Sign That ESPN Isn't What It Used To Be
From ESPN.com's Page 2:
Did you watch the Emmy awards Sunday night or stick with the Chiefs and Raiders?
Here at Page 2, we admit that we were flipping back and forth.
Ask yourself this question: Is the kind of person switching between the Emmys and a Sunday Night Football game the sort of person you want working at ESPN?
Just for good measure, this feature has three references to other properties in the ABC empire that have nothing to do with sports. Sign of the times, I guess.
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Hopefully OLN picks up at least one of the other contracts they want (MLB, NFL) and puts a good product out there.
Posted by:
at September 19, 2005 11:47 AM
I don't know what you are talking about. ESPN Hollywood, competitive eating, and Teammates are exactly the type of programming I think about when I think of a sports network.
Posted by:
at September 19, 2005 11:59 AM
Ah, back to the days of the SAT:
ESPN : sports :: MTV : music
Posted by:
at September 19, 2005 03:39 PM
I'm no ESPN booster (if I hear the "I ... LOVE YOU TOO!" guy doing NFL highlights on SportsCenter one more time, I will drive to Bristol and personally demonstrate that his love for me is quite unrequited), but come on -- it's Page 2. It didn't detract from any of their coverage of actual sports. If it didn't have an audience of its own, they wouldn't do it.
Posted by:
at September 19, 2005 08:15 PM
SATs?
If a train left Bristol at 50 mph at 8AM, and another train left Bristol traveling 80 mph at 9:30, which one has a better chance of avoiding the trainwreck at ESPN?
Posted by:
at September 20, 2005 02:09 PM
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