The Official "Espn First Take , FS1 Undisputed, Sportscenter , Sports Radio, Podcasts etc" Thread.

[blackrain]

Yea I agree Stephen A is over talking and doing way too much. This shit is about to burn to the ground.

It's the highest rated show on ESPN...it ain't burning to the ground

 

[blackrain]

Will Cain was much better today. I especially liked his take on the requiremnet that players play 1 year in college before going to the NBA (will basically called it slavery).

Yesterday's show with Will and Stephen A. was bad, not becaue of Will, but because Stephen A. is now treating the show like it's his radio show or his cancelled show Quite Frankly. Now that Skip's gone, Stephen A. is talking 3x as much. He didn't even let Will finish his points before cutting him off to talk some more. Stephen A. isn't going to let this be a debate show. He's going to make it 2 hours of Stephen A. with the guest chiming in here and there.

Not good. The higher ups at ESPN need to tell Stephen A. that he can't make First Take a one man show.

IMO i don't think Stephen really wants to do the show that much more anyway, especially with all that he has goin on with other ventures cuz it seemed like more and more he was on location than actually in the studio the last couple of years....ESPN could be "forcing" him to do all that loud mouth overtalking BS to keep viewers interested and until they figure out if he's going elsewhere(cuz i think he said he really only did the show as a favor to Skip) or find a legitimate debater that has a good chemistry with SAS....they might have to find two new people altogether and just maybe bring SAS on as a guest debater from time to time

SAS just renewed his contract earlier this year with ESPN and you had to know there was a chance Skip was leaving.....if he ain't wanna do the show why stay?

 

[The Recipe]

FS1, is on point The Herd and Speak for Yourself are really good shows.

 

[stringer bell]

FS1, is on point The Herd and Speak for Yourself are really good shows.

Apparently you're one of the few who like that smug ferret faced douchebag & that fat coon...
http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/is-the-viewership-for-speak-for-yourself-as-bad-as-we-think.html

IS THE VIEWERSHIP FOR SPEAK FOR YOURSELF AS BAD AS WE THINK?

FS1’s attempt to embrace debate and revamp its late afternoon/early evening block once again started in earnest three weeks ago with the premiere of Speak For Yourself, the Colin Cowherd/Jason Whitlock PTI-style show. The early reviews of the show have been tepid, but with a pair of polarizing personalities like Cowherd and Whitlock, that was expected. You can either take them or leave them – there really isn’t much of a middle ground with those two.

The viewership for Speak For Yourself has been lambasted over the show’s three weeks on the air, bottoming out at a sad 35,000 viewers last Wednesday, June 29th. That’s obviously poor – in fact, as many people watched that episode as watched a 6 AM showing of Golf Central on Golf Channel.

However, there have been strong data points too. The show’s premiere on June 13th drew 94,000 viewers. On Thursday, June 16th, FS1 aired the show back to back at 4:58 PM and it’s usual 6 PM timeslot following the US Open. The early show capitalized on the strong lead-in (and start time before 5 PM), and drew 247,000 viewers, while the show in the normal timeslot drew 104,000 viewers.

Looking at only the 6 PM timeslot (a total of 11 shows, as data for June 30th wasn’t immediately available because of the holiday), Speak For Yourself averaged 60,000 viewers. If you include the 4:58 PM showing on June 16th instead of the 6 PM showing, the average jumps to 73,000 viewers. That’s all well and good, but it really doesn’t tell us much of anything. 60,000 or 73,000 viewers on ESPN or ESPN2 at 6 PM would be a disaster, but we’re not talking about ESPN or ESPN2 – we’re talking about FS1.

The two weeks prior to Speak For Yourself’s premiere featured a cornucopia of content during the 6 PM hour on FS1, from NASCAR practice to Copa America Centenario pregame shows to UFC Tonight to World Poker Tour. As you’d expected, the viewership was all over the map for this content on FS1. The three Copa pregame shows averaged 167,000 viewers. The poker drew 55,000. UFC Tonight drew only 42,000. In other words, some of the content picked up many more eyeballs than Speak For Yourself has been averaging, and some picked up less. One constant has been live events drawing strong numbers for FS1, which is to be expected.

Higher viewership for Race Hub has translated into higher viewership for Speak For Yourself – the Race Hub episodes on June 13th and June 27th were its most-watched episodes of the last three weeks, and Speak For Yourself drew its two most-watched live episodes not following the US Open on those two occasions.

The Herd, in its noon timeslot, has performed similarly to Speak For Yourself since the latter show’s premiere, averaging 67,000 viewers on FS1.

The late night lineup on FS1 is a different story, mainly because of lead-ins and variable starting times. Fox Sports Live has averaged 84,000 viewers since the launch of Speak For Yourself, topping out at 213,000 viewers on June 16th and cratering to 36,000 viewers on June 20th. The once a week Garbage Time is even more variable, going from 62,000 viewers to 226,000 down to 48,000 over the last three weeks. Best Thing I Herd has aired just five times since Speak For Yourself premiered, and averaged just 39,000 viewers. TMZ Sports, with start times ranging from midnight to 2:30 AM, has averaged 58,000 viewers over the last three weeks.

There are a lot of numbers here, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. But here’s the jist of Speak For Yourself’s viewership after three weeks – it’s low, but not abnormally low for FS1. 60,000 viewers is a decent enough start after three weeks, especially considering we’re in the summer and the sports calendar is pretty sparse around this point of the year. If we get into October and November, and viewership is still stagnating around that number, then maybe FS1 has an issue with Speak For Yourself. But by then, Skip Bayless will be in the fold, and who knows what the evening lineup will look like?

For now, there really isn’t a strong conclusion we can draw either way about the viewership. It’s not ideal, but it’s far from the disaster many would have you believe.

 

[TheBoyRo]

It looks like Skip Bayless has found his next debate partner. There were reports last month that ex-NFL star Shannon Sharpe (who had previously debated Bayless as a guest host on ESPN’s First Take) was a “leading candidate” to join Bayless’ yet-to-be-named show at FS1, and an Awful Announcing source now says that “It’ll be Shannon Sharpe with Skip Bayless.” When asked for comment, a Fox spokesman said “No comment from us on this one at this time.”

It will be interesting to see how the new Bayless show shapes up, and if Sharpe will be just filling Stephen A. Smith’s old role as Bayless’ debate foil, or if there will be a different spin on it. Given Fox Sports’ National Networks president Jamie Horowitz’s role in embracing debate at ESPN and his comments about doing the same at Fox, it seems likely we’ll be in for lots of debate. But will it be just Bayless and Sharpe going at it, or will there be a moderator in the role Cari Champion and Molly Qerim filled on First Take? It would seem likely there will be lots of NFL talk, too, given the sport’s popularity and Sharpe’s credentials from it, but how will he hold up to Bayless on other sports? And how will Bayless (and his point guard credentials) debating an ex-athlete compare to his debates with Smith?

We do have a good idea of where this show will air, though. According to AA’s source, it will be a morning show airing before Colin Cowherd’s The Herd, which starts at noon Eastern. That fits with how an industry source told AA’s Jim Weber earlier this year that Bayless’ new show would likely air from 10 a.m. to noon before The Herd and go head-to-head with First Take. We’ll have to wait and see how it shakes out, but now that Sharpe is in place, we can start to imagine how Bayless’ new show will go. Prepare to embrace the debate.

 

[The Recipe]

FS1, is on point The Herd and Speak for Yourself are really good shows.

Apparently you're one of the few who like that smug ferret faced douchebag & that fat coon...
http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/is-the-viewership-for-speak-for-yourself-as-bad-as-we-think.html

IS THE VIEWERSHIP FOR SPEAK FOR YOURSELF AS BAD AS WE THINK?

FS1’s attempt to embrace debate and revamp its late afternoon/early evening block once again started in earnest three weeks ago with the premiere of Speak For Yourself, the Colin Cowherd/Jason Whitlock PTI-style show. The early reviews of the show have been tepid, but with a pair of polarizing personalities like Cowherd and Whitlock, that was expected. You can either take them or leave them – there really isn’t much of a middle ground with those two.

The viewership for Speak For Yourself has been lambasted over the show’s three weeks on the air, bottoming out at a sad 35,000 viewers last Wednesday, June 29th. That’s obviously poor – in fact, as many people watched that episode as watched a 6 AM showing of Golf Central on Golf Channel.

However, there have been strong data points too. The show’s premiere on June 13th drew 94,000 viewers. On Thursday, June 16th, FS1 aired the show back to back at 4:58 PM and it’s usual 6 PM timeslot following the US Open. The early show capitalized on the strong lead-in (and start time before 5 PM), and drew 247,000 viewers, while the show in the normal timeslot drew 104,000 viewers.

Looking at only the 6 PM timeslot (a total of 11 shows, as data for June 30th wasn’t immediately available because of the holiday), Speak For Yourself averaged 60,000 viewers. If you include the 4:58 PM showing on June 16th instead of the 6 PM showing, the average jumps to 73,000 viewers. That’s all well and good, but it really doesn’t tell us much of anything. 60,000 or 73,000 viewers on ESPN or ESPN2 at 6 PM would be a disaster, but we’re not talking about ESPN or ESPN2 – we’re talking about FS1.

The two weeks prior to Speak For Yourself’s premiere featured a cornucopia of content during the 6 PM hour on FS1, from NASCAR practice to Copa America Centenario pregame shows to UFC Tonight to World Poker Tour. As you’d expected, the viewership was all over the map for this content on FS1. The three Copa pregame shows averaged 167,000 viewers. The poker drew 55,000. UFC Tonight drew only 42,000. In other words, some of the content picked up many more eyeballs than Speak For Yourself has been averaging, and some picked up less. One constant has been live events drawing strong numbers for FS1, which is to be expected.

Higher viewership for Race Hub has translated into higher viewership for Speak For Yourself – the Race Hub episodes on June 13th and June 27th were its most-watched episodes of the last three weeks, and Speak For Yourself drew its two most-watched live episodes not following the US Open on those two occasions.

The Herd, in its noon timeslot, has performed similarly to Speak For Yourself since the latter show’s premiere, averaging 67,000 viewers on FS1.

The late night lineup on FS1 is a different story, mainly because of lead-ins and variable starting times. Fox Sports Live has averaged 84,000 viewers since the launch of Speak For Yourself, topping out at 213,000 viewers on June 16th and cratering to 36,000 viewers on June 20th. The once a week Garbage Time is even more variable, going from 62,000 viewers to 226,000 down to 48,000 over the last three weeks. Best Thing I Herd has aired just five times since Speak For Yourself premiered, and averaged just 39,000 viewers. TMZ Sports, with start times ranging from midnight to 2:30 AM, has averaged 58,000 viewers over the last three weeks.

There are a lot of numbers here, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. But here’s the jist of Speak For Yourself’s viewership after three weeks – it’s low, but not abnormally low for FS1. 60,000 viewers is a decent enough start after three weeks, especially considering we’re in the summer and the sports calendar is pretty sparse around this point of the year. If we get into October and November, and viewership is still stagnating around that number, then maybe FS1 has an issue with Speak For Yourself. But by then, Skip Bayless will be in the fold, and who knows what the evening lineup will look like?

For now, there really isn’t a strong conclusion we can draw either way about the viewership. It’s not ideal, but it’s far from the disaster many would have you believe.

I spoke prematurely after watching the clips on youtube watched speak for yourself in its entirety is meh but been watching the herd the last couple days covering KD, ill probably keep tuning in for it. Ill probably just catch SFY when they are covering interesting stories or have good guest like tonight Jon Jones and Cormier.

 

[DR. JEK]

I read they may replace Skip with Max Kellerman

I'm sure he'd love to get away from that Cunt beadle

Max vs Stephen A

I think he one of the only guys that could pull off replacing Skip from a mouth running stand point. Max can definitely bring it. Between him and Stephen Molly will need a blow horn or something to get a word in to go to commercial.

 

[Will Munny]

Who are these people with no jobs that watch first take every day?

 

[Vader_F_Kennedy]

Who are these people with no jobs that watch first take every day?

I use to set my DVR to record it ...I like the show

 

[R.D.]

This is the perfect time to revamp 1st take

Get rid of Stephen A, maybe bring him in once a week or something while transitioning

Replace Skip with Kellerman, get somebody young and black to replace Stephen A

 

[playmaker88]

i always liked scoop jackson

but his and hers >>>>>

 

[joeyfkncrakk]

Amin El Hassen would be a dope replacement for SAS but I honestly want him to stay..

 

[TheBoyRo]

https://twitter.com/firsttake/status/752525008350633984

 

[KamPushMe]

https://twitter.com/firsttake/status/752525008350633984

Now sportsnation can die

 

[CJ]

https://twitter.com/firsttake/status/752525008350633984

Now sportsnation can die

That show wack as hell

 

[Vader_F_Kennedy]

https://twitter.com/firsttake/status/752525008350633984

Now sportsnation can die

That show wack as hell

Marcellus corny and beadle well ..u know

 

[jay83]

Why did max Kellerman leave around the horn as a host years ago before Tony reali?

 

[TheBoyRo]

Why did max Kellerman leave around the horn as a host years ago before Tony reali?

I think he got a job with fox and did a show called "I, Max." It failed miserably

 

[infamous114]

I used to fuck with Sportsnation when it was Cowherd and Beadle before I realized she was a cunt

 

[MallyG]

https://twitter.com/firsttake/status/752525008350633984

Now sportsnation can die

That show wack as hell

Marcellus corny and beadle well ..u know

Bruh, one of my homeboys can't stand Marcellus AT ALL! He think he's the corniest nikka on TV. Anytime he start talkin' he be like...