DEATH SPIRAL: ESPN Losing Thousands Of Subscribers Per Day, More Layoffs Coming In the month of October, ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day.
ESPN, who dubs itself “The Worldwide Leader in Sports,” appears to be in a death spiral with no end in sight as new reports indicate the network is losing thousands of subscribers per day and is bracing for another round of massive layoffs.
The Washington Post reported on Friday that ESPN will lay off 40 to 60 more employees by the end of the year — with SportsCenter, the network's flagship show, being hit the hardest.
ESPN, who has had to lay off hundreds of employees over the last year, peaked in subscriptions in 2011; since then, they’ve experienced a massive decline:
ESPN has lost around 13 million subscribers since 2011, when a record 100.13 million households subscribed to cable packages that included the network. That number fell to 87.22 million in August, when Nielsen released its most recent subscriber estimates. When you combine those losses — the company gets more than $9 per month from each cable subscriber who has ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and the SEC Network in their lineups — with the $3.3 billion the network must pay each year for its NFL and NBA packages alone, it paints a troubling economic picture for ESPN and parent company Disney.
Sports analyst and media critic Clay Travis also highlighted ESPN’s struggles in an article on his website "Outkick the Coverage" on Tuesday.
“In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates,” Travis wrote. “ESPN’s business is collapsing so rapidly that they are now trying to figure out which would be more destructive — losing billions on the NFL or losing billions in cable and satellite revenue because they don’t have the NFL.”
Nathaniel Fisher
>dailywire
Cameron Howard
>dailywire >conservative fake news outlet funded by putin
Nolan Foster
every cable channel is losing the exact same amount of subscribers. this isn't an ESPN only problem, ESPN just happens to see a larger dent because they had a high subscription price from providers
Nicholas Davis
ESPN is just garbage Americans sports "journalism". You Yanks need to check out European sports coverage that isn't ESPN, its about 1000x more enjoyable and isn't full of click bait.
Adrian Cruz
teaboo please, for every race baiting ESPN article there are 10 articles in England claiming Messi could transfer Portsmouth
James Morales
>implying people are dumping ESPN in particular and not just dumping cable tv in general
nice impartial news source btw
Cooper Gray
Name ONE human being on the face of the earth who switched from an ESPN-containing cable package to one without due to ESPN's shittiness. Oh wait you can't because they don't exist. Just people cutting the useless cord.
Wyatt Cox
great argument
Gabriel Powell
this is retarded. Im sure Ben knows how Cable works... in fairness ESPN is less resistant to cord cutting than other networks and sports are a main reason people keep cable.
Daniel Foster
>in fairness ESPN is less resistant to cord cutting than other networks and sports are a main reason people keep cable.
Good point, sports fans are more apt to put up with the bullshit from cable tv then regular tv viewers and thus are less likely to cut the cord, as they don't really have another option.
Jordan Nelson
at some point they will sell their app separately
Dylan Hall
when they say "cable", I assume they mean satellite too
Brody Young
Forgot to connect to your vpn burger
Camden Morales
and when they do have another option it goes completely around ESPN. NFL gamepass, NHL game centre, MLB tv, DAZN, piracy, etc. Nobody gives a solid fuck about ESPN original programming. Anyone who did, is much more likely to grab some podcast that caters more to their needs. They will hurt a lot when sports streaming finally takes off.
Sebastian Reed
>dismissing an data-based argument because it comes from a source that doesn't hide its political leanings
Imagine being this much of a brainlet lads.
Blake Peterson
When baseball is the only sport you watch, it is very easy to cut the cord, but an over-the-air HD antenna, and pay for MLB.TV for a year.
Zachary Adams
when will they learn
apparently not until it's /toolate/
btw I heard they're bidding for Formula One, such a thriving American market for that crack of dawn euraboo horseshit
Justin Bell
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James Barnes
>dailywire ok
John Morales
huh
Michael Sanchez
>putting identity politics over sports will keep viewers, they said
Ryder Cooper
the cord cutting argument is hilarious.
i guess it also explains the sudden drop in NFL attendance too.
is that what rachel maddow told you faggots? maybe it's a putin conspiracy to cut their coverage off!
Liam Perry
that's one thing I gotta hand these modern (((troublemakers))), they've finally started putting/losing money where their mouth is. at least they broke THAT stereotype... while also living up to the whole subversive marxist one in heaps.
William Ross
>SPORT >CANCELED
lel good going ESPN
Jace Parker
>2+2=4 >"okay"
>"2+4=4" -Brietbart >"OMFG HOW CAN U BE SO STOOOOPID 2 BELEIVE THAT SHIT R U MORON?"
fuckin brainlets lmao
Xavier Russell
>ESPN is in great shape. They simply fight for truth and justice, like all these super smart black NFL players. All these layoffs and empty stadiums are mere coincidence, shitlords!
t. informed redditor
Angel Sullivan
>based god emperor trump MAGA gas the kikes kill the niggers build the wall pepe kek
Levi Brooks
yes. this is definitely your average normie boomer / lifelong season ticket holder mindset, detlef.
Sup Forums shitposters and "kekistani" altlite merchants are both to blame for ESPN's demise & the recent NFL implosion.
clearly it's fans who are being overly political and childish. american sports & sporting news has always been about the fight against the spread of systematic white supremacy!
Nathan Lewis
>antifa ruining my safespace REEEEEEE
Anthony Rogers
If USA had a women's pro volleyball league, ESPN wouldn't be losing subscribers.
Samuel Martin
they're too busy showing aerial drone racing and asians playing street fighter
Cameron Bell
Meh isn't this just the same as over here. People don't want to pay to watch sports and it's easier to find streams these days?
Juan Gray
No.
Levi King
NO, you're forced to fund Britain's racial propaganda. Here we have a choice.
Benjamin Watson
>doubting cable is losing subs lol
Bentley Johnson
companies make this mistake all the time
>we already have the men, lets pander to women.... whoops didnt work
Ryder Watson
>t. 52%
Hudson Jackson
all tv ratings are down, but ESPN is imploding... its not like other networks are having mass layoffs once a year
