Digby
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Cool, thanks y'all. New FOX is mostly a national television concern.
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And FS1 is the spiritual successor and literal one to Fox Soccer Channel, it'll turn out. Though Fox Soccer never had World Cup rights, which might be all they need to hang on. I know Disney-Fox will have to sell off the local affiliates, but is there any rumor as to what'll happen to FS1 and FS2 under Disney? ESPN8, finally?
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This tweet seems to be deleted but I'm sorry for giving him the benefit of the doubt. Looking forward to his "reckoning with my alcoholism" post as a follow-up to his "reckoning with my being a dip misogynist fratboy" post. (p.s. I don't think of myself as a prescriptivist by any measure, but a professional writer saying "prolly" is unacceptable.)
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I mean, I can’t stand his writing but I’m not gonna speculate!
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Deadspin formally alluded to Magary being in some sort of accident a couple weeks back. Said the family would prefer the details under wraps.
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Who expected the viral heartwarming tearjerker of the 2018 holiday season to have a Charles Barkley angle? https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley
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People try say white privilege doesn’t exist, but if that’s true then explain why Brian Scalabrine is still here.
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Channel 4 in Boston has been a CBS O&O since 1995 and has underperformed that entire time. Weird because their news-radio AM station, as far as I know, remains the standard for that sort of thing around here. An NBC O&O started up in Boston a couple years ago and I don't think ever got traction, either. The ABC affiliate's always been the popular one. When I lived in a much smaller Northeastern market that surprisingly had three local affiliates, though, I will say the CBS one was the most successful -- perhaps because it was the only one that was locally owned, not owned by some Hearst-type chain.
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Recovered well, though; their Premier League coverage is top-notch, they were much better at MLS when they briefly had that, their regional networks seem solid. Sick of Doc Emrick's deal, though.
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Speaking of racists, Kirk Minihane officially out at WEEI. Going to go start a podcast for WEEI's parent company, something called Radio.com. Kind of a brilliant corporate win-win; Minihane gets to curse and be a bigoted miserable sleazebag without FCC or advertiser worries, and the bosses get to say they didn't fire him but shunt him off to nowheresville. I can't believe we're at a point where Gerry Callahan is the good cop on that show, but what could be more 2018. It seems unfair that all the newspaper will go out of business before the sports talk radio stations do.
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I'll have to binge on that one next -- ironically, stuck on the Globe's podcast about the Gardner art heist at the moment. Speaking of Boston: any cord-cutters have a streaming service that includes NESN? I was about to pull the trigger on Hulu's live TV service but realized that one was missing. Far as I can tell only Youtube TV has NESN so far, but I might be wrong.
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Could be the overall branding, too -- when they went to Anaheim the periwinkle scheme and the absurd 90s logos came with it, so it was a cleaner break. Anaheim to LAAoA was easy to miss, frankly, if you weren't paying attention beyond the field of play. -
Paging Patti Smith.
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Yeah, I always thought it was just commonly accepted that the Mighty Ducks and then the Angels took on "Anaheim" as the geographic ID primarily because making it "Disneyland" would have been one step too far.
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Ah, this'll be a fun one to relitigate.
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I think you're spot on about the origin stories -- but I think what Barstool does and is, that's quite a ways beyond the :censored: internet oneupsmanship game of a previous era. I think it's worth outlets (not Deadspin) taking stock of Barstool at a deeper level, the way Daily Beast did, as long as they're going to be the top lifestyle brand for a certain type of modern bro.
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Gotta wonder how long Simmons will keep pumping money into that site. Losing Grantland was unfortunate but all the best parts of it went elsewhere (even the ESPN mothership) which really takes the edge off. Nobody under 30 (maybe 35) knows or cares who Bill Simmons is. And the Ringer has never had the apparent capital or talent to be a big deal.
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Stoolies making a show of some Deadspin editor's 12-year-old comments is like some kind of dollar-store Gamergate, which is kind of an ironic turnabout considering the proponents this time are slacker lawyers and finance bros instead of underemployed gamers.
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My college days involved Champions League on those ESPN afternoons. Halcyon days. (Of course then I had to fire up a bizarre P2P app to watch more than one Premier League game come Saturday morning.)
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Anyone here subscribing to the Athletic? Is it worth it? Seems like some of their national coverage of soccer might be good but I'm not finding any other compelling reasons to subscribe to it. I guess I am lucky to live in the reach of Boston sports media (...) which is saturated enough that the Athletic doesn't really offer a compelling local-level competitor. That and my Boston Globe subscription is unbelievably expensive so, much as I love to support the local media at this point in time, that's also taking up my media-support budget.
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Genuinely curious how much the hardware ecosystem has fractured in the OTT streaming era. I confess I never would've thought having to support X number of gaming systems would be a big deal until this thread! I'm also old-fashioned and stream all my supports on a desktop or laptop computer.
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Right, I think this is an issue in all the non-NFL sports, but it's more obvious in the NHL given more Canadian teams. The Blue Jays weren't on Sunday Night Baseball for what, 14 years or whatever it was, and the Raptors have been nonexistent in the States during their good era, except in the playoffs when their good era has evaporated.
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I just did the same only to discover that he was just a couple of rows in front of me at a Breeders show in Prospect Park last week. I guess that was my brush with greatness. Or at least my brush with something.
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No idea where to put this, but I have to get this out of my system. Today in "You hate to see that": Paul Lukas has to get a new landline number and he may never recover. He's having a terrible time with Verizon customer service but having an absolute meltdown about it on social media. I guess when you get to blog about sports uniforms for a living you might lose perspective on what real problems are. Get a grip buddy.
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Correct! I naively thought that that was vintage Boston, but Minihane has carried the miserable racist torch for a new generation ever since John Dennis got demoted for being an alcoholic.
