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Imagine a sport making their #2 player in the world have to choose to take an extended break from the sport rather than just give them a brief reprieve from doing interviews and letting them continue to play. Nicely done WTA. Even worse is the sports writers with a vested interest supporting the WTA's approach.
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I catch a good bit of daytime sports radio driving in the work vehicle, some local and some national shows. I’m not sure how they pulled it off, but ESPN radio is even more unlistenable than ever. Former Jet LB Bart Scott has a daytime slot that makes my ears bleed, like turn the station when a commercial for his show comes on terrible. I know I’m not in the desired demo, but from radio to ARod to Stephen A to that Max Kellerman guy, ESPN is just one big Idiocracy loop. Now that LeBatard’s gone there’s nothing redeeming. Maybe Bomani Jones.
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NBC Sports is shutting down at the end of the year. Supposedly most of their sports programming including EPL will go to USA Network, but I bet Peacock will get a bunch as well.

 

https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/Stamford-based-NBC-Sports-to-shut-down-NBCSN-on-16585897.php

 

In similar news, ESPN Classic is also shutting down at the end of the year. Not surprising, I can't remember the last time I tuned into ESPN Classic

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Apparently, this is where Sharma is going

 

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I'm late to this but I kinda can't believe that Sharma is pairing up with Greenberg. Everything I've read from Greenberg has been smarmy and superficial, basically the opposite of Sharma's work.

 

The Athletic will almost certainly fail, but definitely worth it to try on the off chance they stumble into something, since writing jobs that pay the rent aren't a growth market. Sharma will be no less employable after the Athletic than he was at BP.

 

I was recently thinking about how I, too, thought this was going to be a huge failure.

 

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Could have sworn I saw speculation recently that Athletic was hanging on by a thread and could fail soon.

 

Hopefully NYT backing keeps them in business and doesn't change thr model much.

 

There was definitely stuff going around last year about how much money they lost in both 2019 and 2020.

 

And the NYT being willing to chuck out cash isn't necessarily a ringing endorsement of how well it's doing since, for one, it's the horsefeathering NYT, and, two, horsefeathers like the AOL and Time Warner merger happened. Or Yahoo buying Geocities for $4 billion(!!!!!!!!!!!). Big money doesn't mean smart money.

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Could have sworn I saw speculation recently that Athletic was hanging on by a thread and could fail soon.

 

Hopefully NYT backing keeps them in business and doesn't change thr model much.

 

yeah, not gonna lie, i'm not informed enough to understand how some of these companies you always hear operate at a loss can just continue to soldier on. others that come to mind are like the rideshare apps, sirius, xm, siriusxm

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Could have sworn I saw speculation recently that Athletic was hanging on by a thread and could fail soon.

 

Hopefully NYT backing keeps them in business and doesn't change thr model much.

 

yeah, not gonna lie, i'm not informed enough to understand how some of these companies you always hear operate at a loss can just continue to soldier on. others that come to mind are like the rideshare apps, sirius, xm, siriusxm

 

Netflix, too.

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Could have sworn I saw speculation recently that Athletic was hanging on by a thread and could fail soon.

 

Hopefully NYT backing keeps them in business and doesn't change thr model much.

 

yeah, not gonna lie, i'm not informed enough to understand how some of these companies you always hear operate at a loss can just continue to soldier on. others that come to mind are like the rideshare apps, sirius, xm, siriusxm

Sirius/xm made almost a billion dollars last year. They have negative equity due to the costs of putting satellites in orbit, but it's a profitable company.

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Could have sworn I saw speculation recently that Athletic was hanging on by a thread and could fail soon.

 

Hopefully NYT backing keeps them in business and doesn't change thr model much.

 

Their goal was to use their VC money to drive their user base sky high while losing money and the selling to a larger entity. That larger entity wants to make money. Can’t see how that doesn’t change the model quite a bit.

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I am a huge Athletic fan, have subscribed for over 4 years and because of a promo deal this summer am locked in another 18 months. I guess there's a reason it seemed too good to be true, I just hope things don't change too much for the worse.
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Could have sworn I saw speculation recently that Athletic was hanging on by a thread and could fail soon.

 

Hopefully NYT backing keeps them in business and doesn't change thr model much.

 

Their goal was to use their VC money to drive their user base sky high while losing money and the selling to a larger entity. That larger entity wants to make money.

 

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Sounds like a recipe for this to not end well for subscribers.

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Yea, obviously I wont doubt the actions of the buying entity to make money, but if they were really on course to start turning a profit by 2023, maybe that's enough to not dramatically change pricing and such.

 

Hell I'd probably consider some combo deal even if it meant meeting in the middle of NYT and Athletic separately, but getting both.

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