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Originally Posted by habernac
I'm wondering if they're killing it just because of its ties to Bill Simmons. They seem to have replaced it with http://fivethirtyeight.com/ on the ESPN website. |
ESPN is in big trouble right now financially. They are cutting costs and laying off people wherever they can. They lost 3-4 millions subscribers last year alone with cord cutting and cord trimming, and with carriage fees around 7$, that is in the neighborhood of 300 million per year in lost income. The carriage fee racket is starting to burst and will see a lot of bloodshed among cable sports networks in the next couple years.
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