Originally posted on 11/30/2016:
We just went over this a month ago.
But for those who missed it, this wasn't the reason. It would be nice and all if it was, because ESPN is on some serious fukkery nowadays, but it's not.
Everyone is dropping their cable packages and switching to AppleTV, FireStick, Roku, etc. This hurts every basic cable channel, but hurts ESPN the most since they overleveraged and dropped billions on the rights to NFL and NBA games, that a lot less people are going to watch now.
And I contributed to a clickbait thread once again.