Is ESPN’s Liberal Political Agenda Contributing to its Serious Viewer Slump?

Don’t offend the mouse? Isn’t that the motto for every Disney owned entity. Honestly nowadays I might turn on one of the many ESPN channels for 30 seconds and that’s only by mistake –  PB/TK

Is ESPN’s Liberal Political Agenda Contributing to its Serious Viewer Slump? By Heat Street Staff|6:37 pm, January 30, 2017

ESPN’s viewership continues to slump. The sports cable network, majority owned by Walt Disney, is down to 87.8 million domestic subscribers according to just released figures from Nielsen. Subscriptions are decreasing each month.

ESPN has lost its primetime ratings crown to Fox News Channel and ratings of “Monday Night Football” are down 12% from the previous season.

Many of ESPN’s woes stem from so-called “cord cutting”. TV viewers are increasingly shunning pricey cable TV packages in favor of trimmed down options that don’t include the high priced sports network.

But growing evidence would suggest the subscriber slump is also driven, in part, by viewer disgust with ESPN’s politics. The network has become increasingly liberal of late, not bothering to disguise the left-wing sympathies of its presenters and commentators.

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