ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History
Cord cutting is a big part of this, but there is a cultural aspect in play as well:<p>ESPN has been increasingly pushing a progressive narrative on its viewers, many, perhaps most, of whom are conservatives.  The NFL is seeing the same thing, with big declines in viewership since the national anthem protests began.<p>I see a lot of newly developed&#x2F;developing antipathy towards professional sports among my right-wing acquaintances.  What&#x27;s funny is that the reasoning is often very similar to what my left-wing acquaintances had to say back when I was at Berkeley.<p>As with the libertarian -&gt; alt-right shift of the last five years, I think it is one of the more interesting sociological developments I am aware of, and largely unremarked upon by the press.