{"id":254554,"date":"2017-11-13T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=254554"},"modified":"2017-11-14T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:46:57","slug":"rush-247-morning-update-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/13\/rush-247-morning-update-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The problems at ESPN continue. Last April they let go 100 people. That was after they laid off 5% of the workforce in 2015. But the bloodletting wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN is now terminating another 100 people. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the ESPN layoffs will hit employees in a number of divisions and includes some on-air talent and executives.<\/p>\n<p>The downtrend includes their subscriber base, too. In September, at the beginning of football season, ESPN reportedly lost nearly 7,000 subscribers&nbsp;a day.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of a month, they lost over 200,000 households. They\u2019ve lost over 12 million subscribers in just the last five years. They now have the lowest number in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s management hasn\u2019t figured out why&nbsp;this is happening.&nbsp;They say it\u2019s cord-cutting, but they don\u2019t explain why cords are being cut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-241581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00-Rush-Morning-Update-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"137\">Now, it can\u2019t possibly be the amount of time&nbsp;ESPN&nbsp;spent delving into politics from a left-wing perspective, could it? Or it couldn\u2019t be the anti-Trump rants from some of their sports commentators? Or the short shrift given to actually covering sports? No, there\u2019s no way that could that upset subscribers who tune in for news about sports.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the problems at ESPN will just remain a great big mystery &#8212; an unsolved mystery &#8212; forever. Kind of like why CNN can\u2019t figure out why nobody watches them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  I guess the problems at ESPN will just remain a great big mystery &#8212; an unsolved mystery &#8212; forever. Kind of like why CNN can&#039;t figure out why nobody watches them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":253721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Mystery - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/13\/rush-247-morning-update-mystery\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Mystery - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I guess the problems at ESPN will just remain a great big mystery -- an unsolved mystery -- forever. 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