If There Is A Sports Show You Enjoy, ESPN Is Prepared To Kill It. NFL Redzone Now Featuring Commercials

The World Wide Leader In Ruining Sports is at it again. Scott Hanson says we will have commercials this fall after ESPN bought Redzone and the NFL Network for a bazillion dollars. What's even the point of having this network on at this point. I happily paid for Redzone because it was commercial free. So if your local games sucked or went to halftime you always had an option. At the office it was always there for tracking your bets. It was the instant jump when your actual game was on a commercial. Now I guess I will just check my phone more because there is no difference between that and whatever product ESPN is going to be running this year. 

It feels like ESPN simply can't keep up in the internet age. The only thing worth having is programming around their live sports. So they went out and bought some of the best things going since they couldn't create it themselves anymore. And before it even launches it feels like Redzone and Inside The NBA are both going to get their essence sucked out of them by ESPN and Disney. 

ESPN's business model now seems to be "if you can't beat them, buy them. And once you buy them, break them". They just aren't good at original programming anymore. They don't seem to care or have a feel for it. Just look at the NHL as the biggest and best example. ESPN and TNT both got their rights deals at the same time. TNT does every single aspect of hockey coverage better. The broadcasts. The studio shows. The personalities and analysts they hired. ESPN is the world wide leader in sports. TNT has their live sports programming and reruns of "Charmed". You'd think that a network that is solely dedicated to sports would have the upper hand, but they just can't figure it out. Redzone and Inside the NBA are both about to get gutted by ESPN and we will all have to pivot somewhere else.