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The Walt Disney Company, Bristol, CT, 06010

ESPN customers are primarily frustrated with announcer quality, citing excessive talking, bias, and failure to focus on game action. Technical issues including wrong channel information, app problems, and poor camera work are widespread. A significant portion of complaints involve politics being injected into sports coverage and inappropriate gender-related commentary.

Common Issues

38% (154)
announcerscommentatorstalking
12% (48)
political viewspoliticssports not politics
22% (89)
channel wrongappcoverage
16% (65)
talking whole timenot calling gamerambling
12% (48)
women announcersladybimbo

Complaints

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Thomas

Aug 17, 2016

Who are these people on your N.

F.

L. talk shows?

Never heard of any of them.

What happened to the sing retired ball players.

Just like the baseball games you need former players.

For Sunday Nite baseball how about Curt Shilling and Pete Rose, now that would be a real Dream Team.

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Barbara Kuchta

Aug 13, 2016

Well, the scores are never accurate and always a inning or two behind.

I don't know why scores can not be updated like MLB.

Also, constantly the pge will not come up if you start checking other games.

Happens on a daily basis when I use ESPN.

Rarely happens with MLB.

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Lindy

Jul 10, 2016

Please Get rid of tennis commentators Chris Fowler and Chris Evert .

Their tennis commentary has always been banal and boring.

Their recent commentary of the exciting Wimbledon women's final was lackluster.

Anyone with a modicum of tennis knowledge could do better.

Men's matches get exciting and sometimes controversial commentary by the McEnroes, Brad Gilbert, Lindsey Davenport and other retired players that delve into player's technique and playing style.

Fowler and Evert comments about player's "tenseness" and desire to win is condescending and offensive.

It feels as though commentary by Evert and Fowler was dumbed down.

Women's tennis at the level of the Wimbledon final deserves the same quality coverage as the men receive.

Are women still fighting for recognition as athletes?

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Gillian Sanders

Jul 7, 2016

Could you have the tennis commentators stop talking during the actual play.

Chris Evert, Chris Fowler and John McEnroe cannot stop talking, they love the sound of themselves.

We just watched the Women's semi-final between Kerber and Williams and Evert and Fowler talked constantly throughout the match.

Next one we watch, we will put the mute button on.

There is nothing more frustrating than hearing commentators talk nonsense and missing the actual play they should be commenting on.

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Frank V Mariani

Jun 29, 2016

Your broadcast comes on the air @ 7 am.

Here it is @7:30 and all I hear is 3 of your commentators pontificating about their worthless opinions.

Can you please show some early round competition?

Something tells me you really don't understand the tennis playing, past or present, viewer audience.

7:35am and McEnroe still yapping.

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Paul Jacobus

Jun 28, 2016

Here's the deal.

First, I realize that no one will bother to read this email.

I get that.

Nobody at ESPN or seemingly anywhere else on the planet cares anymore.

Nevertheless, I thought, just to make myself feel a little better, I'd send off this message.

Your web site is just awful.

It's just a mess with no apparent organization to it.

I was looking for a way to contact somebody at Pardon the Interruption.

I wanted to tell them that I will no longer be a viewer.

Tony Kornheiser has always been annoying.

He's arrogant, thinks he's always right, and has always been rude and impolite.

Lately I notice that something has changed.

He's become a jerk.

And I don't want to watch him on TV.

I want to watch intelligent people discuss issues politely and in a civil manner.

Please tell…

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Herb Thompson

Jun 28, 2016

When watching baseball, please inform all the announcers that I'm interested in the game - not their history, or guests that are interminably interviewed while play is going on, or what the Mexican League used to be compared to AAA baseball.

For heaven's sake they should all take a course with Vin Scully as to what announcing a Baseball Game means.

The latest is to film a kid in the crowd staring at the camera while the game is on and the announcers think it is the funniest thing they have seen.

Then we get in on the latest birthday of one of the announcers with a dumb cake.

Why do you need 4 people announcing the game.

Let them all get jobs with Sports Center and get ONE "Vin Scully" type person to talk about the game.

You have Baseball Today, and Sports Center for this kind of…

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Bob Fernandez

Jun 23, 2016

I am greatly disappointed with the performance of your ESPN announcers on both Mondays and Wednesdays Dodgers national broadcast.

I am here to watch the game and have them report on the progress of the game.

They have spent way to much time with self promotion and stories that I do not care to hear about.

Please remove Rick Sutcliffe and anyone who you might be thinking about partnering him with from the announcing booth.

Their behavior has been disrespectful the the players, fans, and the game of baseball.

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Bob Fernandez

Jun 21, 2016

The announcers working the Dodger - nationals game tonight were terrible.

I gind them to be disrespectful to the fans and players with their discussions.

The cake and not following the games action.

Should this continue I will stop watching ESPN.

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thomas lavera

Jun 20, 2016

What a mess with Sunday night baseball.

You need two former players in the booth and at least one of them needs to be a pitcher or catcher.

Poor Aron Boone just does not have anyone to talk baseball with.

Get some help up there.

Would like to see Kurt Shilling back, as he knows baseball and he is great at this job.

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Tom Potter

May 30, 2016

For three years I have been sending you complaints about Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless if what I hear is true that they are both done at ESPN.

Now get rid of about Serina Moralus and life will be good she is a no talent idiot and I refuse to watch while she's on the air.

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Charlie White

May 29, 2016

On Sunday, May 29, 2016, I hosted a viewing party for the ACC Men's Baseball Championship game between Clemson and Florida State.

Due to rain delay, we watched coverage of the Indy 500 on ABC and continuously switched back to ESPN2 for updates of the delay.

About 2:50 PM, ESPN2 reported the delay was ending and the game was now scheduled to resume at 3:15 PM.

At 3:15PM, ESPN2 began showing the SEC Championship Game between Texas A&M and Florida.

I spent twenty minutes frantically searching all ESPN televised channels, both on TV and Internet, to locate broadcast of the restarted coverage to no avail.

We saw no information about where the game had been moved on the scrolling information feature on ESPN2, et cetera.

Finally, our group decided unanimously that ESPN, the official network…

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Art

May 13, 2016

Stop putting Jeff van gundy as a commentator for the Spurs game.

Disrespectful I will stop watching ESPN if it doesn't get fixed I will be posting this on my social media and will be shared throughout the world!!

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Harry Tate

May 5, 2016

I am mostly happy with ESPN but your baseball television schedule is horrible anytime you put the Yankees and anyone else on the tube....but don't get me wrong, I loved the Yankees when they could play, but now.

You know, you have the miserable Yankees on when you could be showing the Cubs and the Nats.....a real game between the two best teams out there right now.

And even though you think there is a big audience for the Yankees and Boston, you don't.....no baseball fan is interested in them.

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Ken Haney

May 2, 2016

ESPN's website now locks up my computer with live streaming videos and sales trash.

It is impossible for me to read one page without constant page pausing advertisements.

You win, I will find my daily information from a lessor advertiser and switch sports sites to Fox or CBS.

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Larry Stockert

May 2, 2016

Your recent Business decision to renewal the contract of Ray Lewis, whose crimmial/violent past is well documented, while terminating Schilling for speaking his "personal opinion," I find to be truly gutless & must actually reflect your true corporate culture in 2016.

I will be using other means to follow my Ohio State Buckeyes after all of these years plus encouraging others to do the same.

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Stephen Francz

Apr 25, 2016

I am deeply saddened by the Dan Lebatard show being placed in its current time slot.

His is racially biased and attempts to impose his opinions on others, not to mention that the whole concept of a sports radio program has diminished from previous.

I am not writing this because Colin Cowherd is not there, but how horrible the current lebatard show is and the time slot it occupies.

I have watched ESPN since its inception and still do!

The only radio I listen to in the car and at work is ESPN radio, have for years, 24 x 7.

It is with great sadness that the lebetard show is so putrid that I have to change my radio station every day @10am to another station .

I am just one person and I realize different folks like different things but bring back a sports related show please!

If I wanted…

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Skip

Apr 22, 2016

By firing Curt Schilling, You have showed us that you are an integral part of the group of corporations that hate America and are trying to destroy the society of our country.

Curt was accurate and brave to say what he said and a great many of us applaud his comments about letting male perverts into the womens' bathrooms with our wives and daughters.

You can be assured that I and many other Americans will no longer watch ESPN and its advertisers.

Your corporate ideals are stupid and disgusting.

Shame on you and You Go Curt!!

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Bruce

Apr 22, 2016

The firing of Curt Schilling is the last straw for me!

So farewell ESPN, I don't need or want you in my life anymore.

Where and when will this insanity stop?

Freedom?

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Jim Braswell

Apr 21, 2016

I have a question.

Has the management at ESPN gone completely nuts?

Are all of you gay?

It doesn't take courage to dress up like a woman.

Will you take responsibility the first time a woman is raped in the woman bathroom or a child is molested?

We need to feel compassion for these people because they obviously have problems, we do not need to embrace their lifestyle.

Please employee a few real men within the upper management their at ESPN.

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Wendy schipper

Apr 21, 2016

Very upset you fired Curt Schilling on his remarks about transgender bathrooms.

I have 4 children and you should hear my voice and freedom of speech for me in saying this is inappropriate.

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Kenneth Allen

Apr 21, 2016

I understand that ESPN has fired Curt Schilling for his comments about Transgender people.

The majority of the people in the U.

S. feel the same as he does.

I am very much disappointed in your action and am calling Dish net work to take ESPN off my cable programs.

I will no longer watch any of the ESPN programs.

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Kendall Bake

Apr 20, 2016

I am reporting unnecessary profanity on a prime time show.

8:55pm Jon Gruden was hosting a football show where is used the word " god***m." I am very disgusted and offended as a Christian that this language was used on a football show.

ESPN should be more responsible with their content.

It was TOTALLY unnecessary.

I will no longer watch Jon Gruden again.

If he is on monad night football I will not watch.

Please take the correct stance and properly train your employees to be respectful and more responsible with their words.

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Linda Bousquet

Apr 11, 2016

The commentators at the Spurs Warriors game were obviously pro Warriors.

That gets very annoying.

You can't be acting like a Curry groupie and call the game fairly.

Or just keep your opinions and enthusiasm to yourself.

Every time Warriors made a basket they were happy and shouting.

Spurs could do no right.

Sickening.

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Jeffrey Gerard

Apr 6, 2016

The ladies announcing the women's national championship basketball game, we're absolutely sickening, they did not even talk about the game itself, but rather spent the whole time gloating about UCONN players, past and present.... please do everyone a favor and don't let these two ever announce another game, not ever.

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