https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-shuts-down-grantland-effective-immediately/
Where will we read Zach Lowe?
Where will we read Zach Lowe?
Grantland Shutdown
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♪alt13
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I'm sure he will have plenty of suitors.
Hotdog
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Smart move by ESPN. They had some awful writers there.
What probably did it in was that really bad article written about Zach Lavine not long ago. A lot of people there had no idea what they were talking about. Zach Lowe in particular was terrible.
Never liked reading that garbage anyways.
What probably did it in was that really bad article written about Zach Lavine not long ago. A lot of people there had no idea what they were talking about. Zach Lowe in particular was terrible.
Never liked reading that garbage anyways.
This was a great website for three and a half years. It's a shame to see it go.
Zach Lowe will probably get folded into espn.com/nba. He'll just be another Kevin Pelton level writer among the many, although obviously with better material.
Zach Lowe will probably get folded into espn.com/nba. He'll just be another Kevin Pelton level writer among the many, although obviously with better material.
That would be a damn shame if they bury him as an "insider" writer. I think Lowe will go away from ESPN actually.
That's unlikely. It's rumored (as in I've read a handful of places but no one ever has the numbers) that Lowe is VERY well compensated by ESPN. To a degree that it would be difficult for him to match his current salary other places.
Supposedly Grantland had really bad ratings. It was great stuff, but the facts are the masses just want to watch "First Take" videos and here Skip Bayless argue with people about the "it factor".
IDK, I feel like it might be a emotional thing though. Like they got rid of Simmons now this. Maybe someone will come out and offer him a great deal to hurt ESPN? Or maybe he joins Simmons?
No one will ever really know the truth about that topic and "bad" is obviously relative.
I think the issue was that the cost to produce the content was probably higher than the traffic generated justified. Simmons has demonstrated in his own venture that he's able to get a lot more sponsors (and presumably revenue) for his podcasting than ESPN ever was. It could be that ESPN was crappy at monetizing the golden goose of high end content. Grantland is going to be something that, in ten years, young people are going to get really tired of hearing about. It will effectively be a legend from a different time.
It's going to be our generation's version of the National sports Daily
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Sports_Daily