Brad Nessler Leaving ESPN for CBS, will broadcast NFL games

[nctarheel0619]

Brad Nessler has left ESPN for CBS and will eventually replace the network's SEC play-by-play broadcaster Verne Lundquist, according to a tweet from Foxsports.com's Clay Travis.

Nessler, 59, will do NFL games for CBS until taking over for Lundquist, 75, who has called SEC games since 2000.

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2016/04/verne_lundquist_to_be_replaced.html

[Toker Smurf]

ESPN is having a clearance sale.

[Omega Atrocity]

ESPN is really hemorrhaging money. Seriously, check out the commercials that come on there late at night, you can just tell.

[chknwing]

whats going on at ESPN. Mass exodus.

[Kakarot]

Damn, everyone is leaving ESPN. Once my baby Molly Qerim leaves, I'll have no use for the station anymore. 

[TheRumGone]

 

whats going on at ESPN. Mass exodus.

I think they're broke. I remember reading something about it awhile back.

[Arroz con Panther]

I tried watching ESPN this morning for the first time in a long time.  I don't think I made it 5 minutes.  They were showing some 13-year old kid who did a science project on why Tom Brady is innocent when it comes to deflategate.  Like what?

[Bartin]

 

whats going on at ESPN. Mass exodus.

Overpaid for rights fees trying to put competitors out of business and misforecasted that cable subscribers and carriage fees were going to increase when they have decreased. They are pretty massively in the red and have been cutting costs significantly the last few months.

[stirs]

Do we need a sports broadcaster category or something in here?

[Squirrel]

This is what happens when you try to buy all the cfb rights.  

[nctarheel0619]

 

Do we need a sports broadcaster category or something in here?

[weyco2000]

 

I tried watching ESPN this morning for the first time in a long time.  I don't think I made it 5 minutes.  They were showing some 13-year old kid who did a science project on why Tom Brady is innocent when it comes to deflategate.  Like what?

Yeah, saw that also... Why they think crap like this is entertaining is beyond me.

[tukafan21]

I'm guessing there are only a select handful of people who they won't get rid of regardless of how much they get paid 

namely Mike and Mike, SVP, and Chris Berman

almost everyone else is expendable to them I'm guessing

[Bartin]

 

I'm guessing there are only a select handful of people who they won't get rid of regardless of how much they get paid 

namely Mike and Mike, SVP, and Chris Berman

almost everyone else is expendable to them I'm guessing

Two days ago Tirico would have been on that list. He did absolutely everything for them. If another company offers those guys more money and there is a directive from Disney, their parent company, that they can only pay people a certain amount then those guys could be gone as well. Bayless made them a lot of money and they couldn't match Fox's offer.