ESPN Cheerleader for SEC....

[donovan]

Since ABC and ESPN are now in the same corporate Disney structure...they were subsumed.

Subsumed....now there is a great word.....

[billybud]

The Postmodern reference would be that ABC was Borged.

[Spence]

The problem is, Spence, if you are a college football fan, you must tune in ESPN to watch football.

You can tune in to watch games. If I watch a Buckeye game on TV, I turn down the sound and listen to the Ohio State radio feed. If I watch another game I only watch the game. Unless Chris Spielman is doing the game. I like Chris.

You are noticing this now, but ESPN has been on a crusade over the last 10 years to hurt the Big 10 because the Big10 didn't blink when setting up the Big10 channel and jumped over to Fox. ESPN thought Delany didn't have options and low balled him. It turned out he did. Ever since then ESPN has been on a mission to hurt the Big Ten and with Ohio State being the flag ship team over the last 15 years or so, they got the brunt of it. They have just expanded it to others. They are just protecting their turf. When people quit using them for their sports news, they will start coming around. Until then, they will yield the power that we have given them.

[Cane from the Bend]

There is one way to take power away from ESPN if you believe what they are doing is wrong. It is called the on/off switch. I believe TV's still have them. Changing the channel works too.

Turning off the espn channels works only so far.

It's that same sentiment, "if a good person does nothing, then he or she is an enabler".
The problem is, for every 1 tv set turned off, there are 1,000 tuning in.

But, here's the kicker ... I do change the channel.

I watch the games that are shown on whatever tv station that is not espn. However, CBS is only SEC, and that is not a solution. FOX usually showcases 1 Big XII game & 1 Pac-12 game.

I always choose FOX first, because I do not want to give ratings to the Disney chain.

And yet, the internet has afforded me to watch games exclusively on espn, without giving them the ratings. The sites I go to, are streaming broadcasts from all across the country. None of those who are watching those streams are picked up on a broadcaster's signal.

Maybe it is a little amoral to view something that is the property rights of the network, without giving them the acknowledgment of my reception. Then again, it is amoral, because I believe it all balances itself out, seeing as, I still have to sit through the SEC babbling & commercials --- only, they are not getting the credit for it --- I call this appeasement.

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The other issue, though, is turning off espn for college football, doesn't necessarily change how they transcribe their coverage.

What it does, is open the market for something other than college football, because, that is what will not get the ratings.

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[Spence]

I watch SEC games on CBS. I like several teams from the SEC. I just don't care for ESPN. I rarely talk about them or why. Other than this thread I don't think I have talked about them very often. I am over ESPN and have been for a while.

[Cane from the Bend]

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Well, I didn't mean to imply you were a supporter of, nor even an apologist for espn.
I was simply explaining my way of dealing with my adverseness from the propaganda.

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[Spence]

It does surprise me that people are just now noticing this. It isn't anew tactic by ESPN just more wide spread now.