In his memo to employees, ESPN President John Skipper spoke about a need to be more "efficient and nimble" in the network's operation.
Dilfer began his broadcasting career with the NFL Network in 2006 while with the San Francisco 49ers and played one more season before retiring and joining ESPN.
Some of the biggest names include Jay Crawford, radio host Danny Kanell, NFL reporter Ed Werder, and baseball reporter Jayson Stark. I tried to represent the best in college hoops. "You can not pay four times for the house [more] than what you paid for the house a year ago". Bummed it ended in 3 minutes.But totally get it.
"They're often letting go of the most expensive people they feel they can let go", he added.
Amidst the shockwaves of ESPN cuts, it has been revealed that ESPNU is moving its studio operation in Charlotte to Bristol.
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Cowherd, who worked alongside many of these people during his 12 years at ESPN, seemed to offer a soft recruitment for the ones left now on the street.
The layoffs are an attempt by ESPN to evolve in the wake of a two-headed challenge: a declining subscriber base and skyrocketing rights fees.
ESPN has been facing a slump in revenue that's most easily traced to cord-cutting by former cable subscribers, in an era of sharply shifting habits both for sports fans and for television viewers in general. Last year, the network's new nine-year agreement with the NBA to televise pro basketball games took effect. That's on top of deals the network already had with the NFL ($1.9 billion annually), various NCAA conferences and the College Football Playoff (well over $1 billion), and Major League Baseball ($700 million). The reported cost to ESPN: somewhere around $1.5 billion per year, a massive increase over the previous deal.
In total, fewer than 10 people in Charlotte are being laid off. In 2015, Bristol laid off about 350 employees, and Cowherd claimed he knew then - with the price ESPN had paid for sports TV contracts - that the cycle would continue.
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