Day 12

Fresh Start_12: ESPN
No matter where you go nowadays from the DMV to the grocery store, or your local barber shop; ESPN is most likely playing. It’s actually correctly playing in my dorm room right now. Sportscenter has been a staple in the mornings in my house for years, eating cereal on the couch watching Neil Everett and Stan Verrett or John Buccigross and Stewart Scott. Those voices rained through my house every morning. From the Home Run Derby, to College Football, to Monday Night Football ESPN has dominated the sports world and makes its competitors almost absolute.  Look at Fox Sports who has tried to compete up front and take some of ESPNs’ viewership. And in fact in some ways they have, in the aspect of the talent.
Look at the talent that has either let go or has walked away from the company in the past couple of months. Excluding Bill Simmons who I have talked about on this blog and how he’s been doing very well on his own. But after Simmons, it’s been Colin Cowherd, Mike Tirico, Skip Bayless and most recently Tony Kornheiser. Cowherd, Bayless and Kornheiser have moved to Fox Sports, while Tirico has made the move to NBC. All of this talent walking out the doors in Bristol, Connecticut is just head scratching and worrying as a faithful follower of ESPN. I really enjoyed Cowherd, Kornheiser, and Simmons during their time at ESPN, and their content that they brought to the company. Cowherd has successful in his radio show on FS1 and Kornheiser is starting a podcast coming this upcoming Tuesday.
Not only the talent loss but the evolution of Sportscenter and their attempt at trying to become Good Morning America or the Today Show. Instead of embracing what they as a company with the show Sportscenter when they first started, and eventually took off throughout the years. Taking sports analysts and personalities and making them more like the ABC or NBC morning people that are the news is just something I can’t stand behind. Also moving Stan Verrett and Neil Everett to 1AM is a bad move, along with shoving Scott Van Pelt to the Midnight hour aka the graveyard shift. Moving all of these guys is straight up disrespectful complimented with a great way to lose viewers.  Now, let me say this about ESPN and entertainment as a whole; you don’t have to agree with everything that a person or a company puts out in the world. I still enjoy the content of ESPN, but the way that ESPN is going with the they are running the content and managing the people that appear on tv. I used to want to just want to work at ESPN and do a Sportscenter, write, and do a radio show. Now, I’m not so sure; I’d love for the opportunity but with launching my podcast shows and this blog I will see were this all goes. I can truly say that watching Sportscenter made me want to get into this business, but if you are going to continue on the track that you are on, gather your stuff ESPN and don’t let the door hit you on your way out!

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