On Wednesday, sports network ESPN announced it was laying off employees effective immediately. The long-expected announcement follows a similar purging of 100 employees back in April.
At present ESPN has about 87 million subscribers, a big drop from 2010 when it had around 100 million subscribers.
Even at this late date there are still those who claim that ESPN’s decline has nothing to do with its liberal bias. Bram Weinstein, who used to work at ESPN and now hosts a radio show at ESPN affiliate 980 AM in Washington, D.C., insisted the layoffs are just a “market correction” on his Wednesday show. ESPN is adjusting to the fact that millions of people are going “mobile,” paying to have NFL, NBA, and MLB games streamed directly to their cell phones and iPads, or so he claims.