I can’t argue with the headline nor the article. I used to be a regular viewer of most anything ESPN, but i kicked that habit. I tired of the the continued talk show and less action. I still remember when I was a kid and ESPN used to have wrestling programs with the von Erichs (holy crap I just postmarked myself!). Hell you cant even find Bongo Pongo ping pong games at 200am on any of the ESPN channels. Yes they’ve dug their hole with way too many talk shows and little action – PB/TK
ESPN Is Losing Money And Viewers; Their Open Left-Wing Bias Is Partly Responsible -by Jay Caruso February 11, 2017
Do you know who was the best SportsCenter host? Keith Olbermann. That’s right. Olbermann was the best. For those not old enough to remember when Olbermann was a SportsCenter anchor, it was between 1992 and 1997. Those were the best years of SportsCenter. The show would start at 6 am and run on repeat for a few hours, and I’d watch as much as I could. It was entertaining, funny and insightful. Kilborn, Olbermann, Bob Ley, Linda Cohn, Rich Eisen, Charley Steiner, and Dan Patrick were just fun to watch. Olbermann mixed humor and a deep knowledge of sports (especially baseball) that always made it great to watch. Unfortunately, ESPN has fallen so far from grace I don’t watch it unless there is a live sports event being covered. Olbermann’s fall from grace in sports and politics has been so far he’s a step away from being a YouTube “star.”
ESPN has become the MSNBC of sports channels, and if I want left-wing political commentary, I can watch MSNBC. When I watch sports, I want it politics free. Sports is something that should transcend politics. Often it does. I have liberal friends. We barely talk politics, but we can talk sports all the time because politics goes out the window, as it should. Those lines were always blurred when it came to sports, and ESPN ruined it by taking sides. Now, they are suffering.
A piece that is worth reading in its entirely is this one by Clay Travis. Travis is no conservative, but he understands the sports audience and recognizes why ESPN is no longer the juggernaut it once was.
Continue to resdtate.com article: http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/02/11/espn-losing-money-viewers-open-left-wing-bias-partly-responsible/
