How would you compete against sportscenter?
I think ESPN is weakening to the point where competitors for its title of "Supreme Television Sports Entity" will be showing up in the next few years. If not FoxSports, then some other network. Keep in mind something like half your cable bill goes to ESPN...there is sooo much incentive to come up with a network to make ESPN work for it's cable buck.
The key, as I see it, is to start grabbing ratings from the flagship news show, Sportscenter. Given the attitude of invicibility Sportscenter has to feel right now, coming up with legit threat to it's sports-news monopoly can't be too hard. I have specific ideas on what my centerpiece sports-news broadcast would look like, whick I will post later, but I'd like to hear what you guys would like to see in a competitor's news show.
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