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you gotta admit as an overall package of a sports network, espn does provide a pretty good product with their programming.
Disagree. I mean, once you just accept that most of their stuff is professional trolling and essentially modified talk radio for TV (not to mention the actual talk radio they broadcast on TV), then it really loses a lot of value. It's poor both as a news-delivery vehicle and as an analysis vehicle. What else is there? I don't need ******s arguing with each other.
The analysis is really poor. Like, really really poor. The network employs some pretty decent statistical minds and yet none of that knowledge ever makes it onto the air in a reasonable way. I mean, try it - there may be a market for it. Butnahhhh, they don't even try.
75% of discussion the last few years has centered around Favre, Vick and Tebow, leaving other coverage totally lacking.
Heck, even the "news" is heavily biased towards leagues broadcast by ESPN at the time, or heavily agenda driven such as their absurd support of women's basketball despite a complete lack of evidence there is any interest at all.
I am hoping NBC's new 24-hour network is good, but I'm not hopeful. They definitely have a chance to make it work.
Fox had a good start to competing with Best Damn... a few years ago, but then ESPN bought all the talent and they've never recovered.
All the league-specific channels also hurts a comprehensive all-sport competitor. But I think it's doable still.