The Walt Disney Company’s recent string of successes — from Frozen to Star Wars — has sent the company’s stock soaring for the past several years. But their infallibility finally came to an end this year thanks to a rapid decline in ESPN subscriptions. Now, it seems that liberal politics may be to blame.
The Nielsen estimates revealed that ESPN lost 555,000 subscribers during the last month.
In other words, ESPN essentially lost the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This, coming on the heels of last month, the worst month in ESPN history, where the network lost 621,000 subscribers.
[…]According to Deadline Hollywood, “Disney’s other sports channels fared better. ESPNU had 71 million subs, down 1.4%. ESPNEWS and SEC Network — not measured by Nielsen — were flat based on December data from SNL Kagan. The former had 70 million subs and the latter had 62 million.”
What do ESPNU, ESPNEWS, and the SEC Network all have in common? They are, by far, the least opinion-driven and ideological of all the ESPN channels. ESPN’s slate of uber-opinionated, radically leftist programs such as Around the Horn, First Take, Pardon the Interruption, His & Hers, and others all appear on ESPN or ESPN2, the channels which have seen the greatest decline.
ESPNU, ESPNEWS, and the SEC Network primarily feature sporting events, simulcast radio shows, or straight news reporting with very little opinion, or, at least very little political opinion. Those channels have either marginally declined or stayed flat.
Why ESPN would think that liberalism and sports were a good mix is anyone’s guess, but now they’re seeing the ramifications.
Source: Breitbart
No NFL or ESPN. Disrespecting the country, the flag or our troops is not entertaining.
Sports is not suppose to be political. The fact that Liberals own most of big media shows in how they conduct themselves. I have not watched many channels or programs in past months, Due to this. I will accept the fact that they are not worth my time. I will survive without them.
America should be boycotting ESPN this household is those guys are assholes total pieces of s**t
$$$ loss always makes a point.
Too bad. Americans aren’t putting up with businesses trying to run our country any more.