ESPN Lost 480,000 Subscribers In One Month

ESPN is desperately trying to restore its soiled reputation. I don’t think network executives truly had a problem with anchor Jemele Hill trashing President Trump and calling him a white supremacist, but then she called for a boycott (due to Jerry Jones’ remarks) and they temporarily suspended her to send a message. ESPN is SERIOUS. It is a legitimate sports outlet. It is not political! PINKY SWEAR.

No one’s buying it. In fact, ESPN lost approximately 15,000 subscribers a day in October. We’re talking 480,000 for the month of October alone.

To put that into perspective, that’s the equivalent of losing Sacramento, California, the 35th largest city in the country, in a month. While many would welcome the loss of Sacramento, for a variety of reasons, when discussing losing a city of that size in a ratings context, it’s horrifying.

FS1 also lost a crapton of subscribers, but Breitbart notes that this may be due to the network following in ESPN’s political footsteps. After all, it featured Jesse Jackson on its flagship debate show “Undisputed.” Jackson whined about Trump and compared NFL owners to slaveholders. Because SPORTS.

Not surprisingly, Jackson bashed President Trump and used slave references to describe the how players are treated in the NFL. This move, straight out of the ESPN playbook, seemed really odd considering that FS1 has branded themselves as being everything that ESPN is not. However, considering that incident, in addition to the daily drum beat of liberal insanity coming from Shannon Sharpe; and one gets a pretty clear picture of why the network which branded itself as the alternative to ESPN, has suddenly become just like ESPN.

Still, these numbers are particularly disastrous for ESPN. Who, due to its ever shrinking subscriber base, will likely no longer be able to afford Monday Night Football after 2021. That will leave the self-described “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” without any broadcast partnership with the biggest sports league in the land.

ESPN is sucking all the bowls. I can’t help but find a little bit of satisfaction in that.

h/t Breitbart