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874 complaints

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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
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talking whole timenot calling gamerambling
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women announcersladybimbo

Complaints

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Mike Koehler

Mar 14, 2021
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Bill Walton sucks and the most arrogant piece of shit there is. Can not stand watching a west cost game with his bull shit comments. Get rid of this biased person and more people will watch.

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Richard Warren Wilkinson

Mar 13, 2021
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The announcers on ESPN for the MD. vs. Iowa game continually talked about other things than the game itself. Very little play by play commentary.

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Larry Torreyson

Mar 13, 2021
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I just watched the Pac-12 conference tournament game between Colorado and USC. Unfortunately, I experienced the worst experience watching an ESPN college basketball game in my long history. Bill Walton was beyond his usually abrasive self. Obviously he was to drugged up on his favorite partake of weed and his co-announcer was feed up with him as well.

It was obvious that many times Walton had no idea what was happening on the court as he was announcing. 30 to go for not stopping a play at the rim when Mobley was 20 feet away trying to block the shot.

This was just one of many poor comments. Please bring some professionalism back to your announcing corps as Bill Walton is far from professional anymore.

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glenn

Mar 12, 2021
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please enough about rectal thermometers on DCR radio. lubricants vaseline carbulated jellies . 4 headed thermometers i tune the station off come back 25 minutes latter and their'e still in discusssion. talking about being violated ad intrusions enough is enough please.

1. rick 2. dave and 3 chris backs off

next on the michael kaye show i think the constant picking between themselves is too too much. not funny and peter thinks thats hes a therapist .does not make for good radio or rating in my opinion. otherwise love the shows.

thank you.

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Judith Nevitt

May 27, 2020
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I love ESPN. Your coverage of women's sports is exceptional. Your coverage of high school and college sport is the best. College GameDay is the standard to which every other TV coverage is trying to follow. I am forever, grateful, to you for giving Women Commentators an opportunity. I watch Golic&wingo and GET UP every day. Please Don't let Dan Orlovsky ruin my Get UP! He is dreadful. Bring back Pat McAfee And tell Doris Berk to retire.

Thanks for your time and Service.

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Geno Santiago

Apr 14, 2020
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On the Dan Le Batard show the co host is called Stugotts. Frankly that is vulgar and disgusting to many Italian listeners. It's a vulgar slang term that translate to "my dick" or "my cock". It's not clever or socially acceptable to different viewers or listeners.

Especially women and Italian listeners. I feel that ESPN should have known this before hand and not use this handle. Believe me I will not stop with this Email. Stop using that name. Gene Santiago.

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Old Enough To Know Better

Mar 10, 2020
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New subscribers end of December 2019 1st of January 2020. Before watching any thing we have to call customer service for them to find out why it doesn’t work for us. , etc. Eventually it will be provided for viewing, but very low, poor quality even though we have LTE Internet and top-of-the-line viewing products.

We probably watch one or two items monthly. Recently, we tried viewing the wilder-fury fight, which would not work like all the others initially.

However, customer service sent us an email saying it would work 15 days after the event, so we waited, then called on the 16th day to report it was not operational again. We were told we could not watch it at all.

Kallie told us that she spoke w/her supervisor earlier and that this was not available as a replay. ” we ask what it meant…

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Henry L. Quihuis

Mar 9, 2020
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MEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL My complaint is about Arizona Wildcats Basketball commentators Bill Walton and Dave Pasch. They talk about everything throughout the game that had nothing to do with it. Walton is obnoxious and Pasch is his goat. Something is wrong here, one game Walton pulls out a jar of peanut butter and sticks his fingers in it and into his mouth several times throughout the game then, he tries to shove it to Pasch, and he just smiles and turns his cheek.

In another game, a scout came and joined them and talked for 15 minutes , according to Pasch, he said, we should be concentrating about the game. And in another game, Richard Jefferson was their guest and sat in between them and seemed to be avoiding Walton's rude comments.

They also spoke for about 15 minutes. I muted the…

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Doug Smith

Mar 3, 2020
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When Spike Lee and his childish antics is your lead story on Sports Center, you have definitely have lost it. Get a grip!

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Markus

Feb 23, 2020
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Markus molschewski@me.com

Why does ESPN keep assigning Dave Flemming and Sean Farnham to cover BYU basketball? Farnham, in particular, is so biased that he is really offensive. Every comment he makes is negative towards BYU- everything they do is a foul and when Gonzaga fouled, but the refs didn't call it, then he says "that was a good no-call". He went on and on about Haws elbow to the back, called it dirty, wouldn't let it go, but when Gonzaga threw an elbow on a moving screen and floored a BYU player neither commentator said a word and ESPN, of course, didn't even show a replay, even though the whole arena saw it.

I finally turned off the audio and listened to the local radio coverage because I was sick of those two- especially Farnham- cheering for mighty Gonzaga and biting at BYU.…

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Tom Hulsewede

Feb 22, 2020
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Cannot take anymore Dick Vital. Have yet to find anyone who likes this guy. He is the worst announcer in sports but you get force Fed if you want to watch a game he is calling.

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Jerry Brandewie

Feb 22, 2020
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I'm a big fan of ESPN Sports and college basketball but are you broadcasting a large number of games from the SEC including teams like Kentucky with a relatively modest season and record. I'd like to see more of the cinderalla teams that are ranked higher this year (i.e. Dayton and San Diego State)!

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Stuart Vander Hoek

Feb 16, 2020
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I watch UW men's basketball, and turn off the sound when Bill Walton is announcing. He is a complete distraction to the game action. He's also using a term that is derogatory to little people. The word is "midget". My 3 yr old granddaughter was born with a rare disease call Achondroplasia. She is a little person. Walton's use of the word midget is both disturbing and uneducated. Please educate him about the use of this term and what it means to recklessly use it and hurt people.

If I really thought you would terminate him for his bizarre comments during games that would be my first wish. If not, please get him some sensitivity training.

Stu Vander Hoek

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Paul Wyatt

Feb 15, 2020
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Jimmy Dukes andnhis partner tall more about themselves than calling the the game they arr supposef to be calling. If this continues you will lose me and my friends ad a customer!

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maria foulenfont

Feb 10, 2020
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I ordered the fight on Saturday and I had trouble seeing the fight I was on my xbox did not get to see the fight wasted my money and espn does not want to refund my money back so I am very upset about this they don't even respond back to me at all so it is poor customer service

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Mark St John

Jan 28, 2020
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I have never seen such misinformation in my life! I thought I recorded the Australian Open this morning, but no it was not on the channel you said it was on, When you pull up the guide, it gives you another channel, BUT THAT CHANNEL IS WRONG TOO!!!!!!! What in the hell is so difficult about giving the proper channel, Kobe's death is not an excuse for you to be incompetent Pathetic

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Karen Riegle

Jan 28, 2020
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Once again some idiot has changed the program on ESPN2 the Australian Open Tennis Tournament to a channel I do not subscribe to. They took ESPNs program and moved it to ESPN2. I subscribe to ESPN and ESPN2 so I can watch the 4 major tennis tournaments.

Once again I cannot watch what I have paid for. Again I ask, would you move another program to replace the Super Bowl. Of course not. You have 24 hours a day to move your program of Kobe Bryant to any of your networks.

Why is that so hard for you to do. I am sorry for the loss but you need to figure out a better way to honor him than making your subscribers angry. You will continue to hear from me if you keep making these stupid decisions.

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Priscilla Casares

Jan 28, 2020
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I originally was not able to stream the Mcgregor fight after making the purchase. I had a room full of guests and was only able to stream the prelims and then it cut off and showed a white screen with message saying website not available.

I immediately called customer service hoping they would fix this. I stayed on the phone with them for over 45min trying to troubleshoot the problem- uninstalling the tv app on my samsung smart tv/ reinstalling, logging in throught the website, logging in via other devices, and ultimately sending in screenshots for them to start a case with.

The rep tells me not to worry, the image should be enough proof for a refund. Then today, 1/27/20, I get an email that they can not refund me the cost for the fight because on their end they can see that I streamed…

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Larry Lee

Jan 26, 2020
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Seriously the best sports network in the world and the best announcers you can find for NFL are Jim and Booger?!?! Those two are terrible, can hardly stand to listen to them. Hope you have better plans for next year?!

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steven

Jan 25, 2020
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I cannot stand the number of stupid fucking videos that loudly play in the background of every single boxscore to a game/match 30 seconds after I view the page. I don't care about your content, just the score/stats. So stop trying to shove it down my throat you money driven, piece of sub-human shit excuse of a company.

Not one person on the face of the earth wants an advertisement to loudly play without their permission while they JUST WANT TO SEE THE FUCKING RESULTS OF A GAME. Fuck you scum bag greedy sheep

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Former Watcher

Jan 21, 2020
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Not happy.

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Michael Wilson

Jan 20, 2020
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Have you fired the ass-hole who developed the split screen for the college football playoff? He should be pissed on.

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Steven Burnside

Jan 19, 2020
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Stephen A Smith has now business working UFC events. He has no understanding of the product for which he is commenting on. His a serious and sometimes dangerous sport and deserves educated commentators not ignorant clowns. Please in the future employ professional MMA analysts who add to the viewers experience.

Mr Smith’s lack of knowledge of the sport was embarrassing and made me want to tune out not continue to view your programming. Thank you

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Nathan soares

Jan 19, 2020
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The picture on live stream sucks in and out of focus, buffering every min. I will never again pay for a fight I can't see again. need to put coverage back with cable companies. Waste of money. This is a complaint about ufc 246.

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Ray Melendez

Jan 18, 2020
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I reached out to have my credit card info removed from my espn+ account. I used the chat line for this. I was told I had to cancel the account to remove the info which is totally absurd. Your refund policy is that there is no refund.

So if I cancel my subscription which is good until December 2020, I lose out on 11 months of service. 99 under your refund policy. That is a rip off. 99. That is terrible business. I have a Disney+ Subscription as well that I will cancel.

I will also make sure everyone knows about this insane policy that you can't remove your credit card info from your account. Bad business and I expect more from a Disney company. Awful experience.

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David Spratt

Jan 17, 2020
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I am 43 years old, and part of my daily routine is to turn on ESPN in the mornings as soon as I get up. ESPN would then be on all morning everyday since I was in high school. I am now a father of 2 kids, and am saddened to say that I have to change this morning routine.

First let me preface this by saying that I never watch First Take because I do have small kids and the amount of cursing and yelling has just gotten out of control. When I started watching ESPN in my teens, you never heard anyone cursing. I know times have changed but its just not something I want to subject my children to. With that being said, I figured I was safe with SportsCenter. My kids were home from school the other day and I turned on SportsCenter in the morning like I have done for years, then it happened.…

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Doug Thompson

Jan 14, 2020
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When watching Arizona games and Bill is the broadcasting color man, the games are muted. Bill is a wealth of knowledge, and it should be about the game period. Now my real problem is he doesn't dress like your announcers, respectfully.

The other evening when Arizona was playing the Oregon Ducks, that nut case Bill does this peanut butter stunt, so unprofessional. I'm probably the only upset person along with Bob that are puzzled that Bill can run rampant like this.

Now Bills freshman year at UCLA his coach Mr. Wooden said, you can't practice until you do this, and Walton did. Bill was a champion at UCLA, as we all know. Doug Thompson

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Lary Cantrall

Jan 14, 2020
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What the hell are you doing putting those idiot announcers on the field for the cfp championship. I am so pissed! We only get a half screen and have to look at a bunch of idiots and listen to them too!

I'm going to cancel my direct tv because of this especially if this is what the future broadcasts are coming to. Thanks for ruining the game and our party. Jerks! com

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Melinda

Jan 14, 2020
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Please, please DO NOT let Kirk Herbstreit call another LSU Tiger game again. We all know that he hates LSU but it is just to obvious!!

Thank you

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Allen Schultz

Jan 14, 2020
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Who is the genius showing the national championship game on a split screen? I want to watch football not the coaches on the sidelines. Will this be fixed by the end of the game?

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James Pecou

Jan 14, 2020
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Watching the CFP National Championship ,all 22 people here wanted to rip ESPN‘a head off. You greedy bastards keep flashing the ESPN logo (BUG) to piss off everybody. That goes for the AT&T bug also... What the hell is wrong with you people??!

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charles martin vogler

Jan 14, 2020
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I am trying to watch the college championship game and you have four assholes taking up 25% of the screen dissecting every play. get those assholes off the screen so I can watch the game. thank you

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Jim Webb

Jan 13, 2020
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I worked today, got off in time watch the NFC game today, NO networks INCLUDING ESPN have ANY highlights of the AFC Playoff game. I mean nothing not any plays or any stats. NOW I have been watching ESPN for 45 after the NFC game has been over and not one word or play about the AFC game....WTF!!!!!

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Norman Buls

Jan 10, 2020
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Bill Walton should not be allowed to be on college basketball games. He demonstrates that he thinks he game is more about him than the game. He engages is silly sophomoric antics rather than reporting the game.

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CANDY HAZEN

Jan 10, 2020
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Please get Bill Walton off the air. All he talks about is peanut butter and ridiculous stuff

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Jane Asch

Jan 10, 2020
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Listening to Bill Walton talk about smearing peanut butter on his co-announcer's face and NOT talking about the game tonight makes me disgusted with your station's coverage. Get some quality in your coverage. Walton is not quality!

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Clark Zaft

Jan 5, 2020
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Your announcers on Buffalo Texas couldn’t be more biased for Texas. They threw in a couple atta boys for Buffalo but very obvious. I am a 49er fan so I don’t care who won. I am 70 years old and it’s the first time I turned the TV off because of the announcers. They basically suck. Call the game.

I don’t care what you think. Tell me what is going on not what you think they should do. You could tell when Texas started to come back their excitement level escalated. Booger is good but loved Texas the other guy needs to be an auctioneer or work at CNN.

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Jeff Clarke

Jan 2, 2020
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Trying to watch the Sugar Bowl with your split screen format, hate it. Shutting it off.

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Robert Kimball

Jan 2, 2020
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I could only watch about 5 minutes of your dumbass split screen telecast of the Sugar Bowl and had to change the channel. Wasn’t worth watching!!!

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Carol Jean Harper

Jan 2, 2020
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Why do they broadcast a football game with a split screen - I hate it. If I wanted to watch a 15x18" screen, I would purchase a smaller tv. I am going to bed and hope the replays will be on a full size screen.

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Cindy Copp

Dec 31, 2019
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We found the Belk Bowl almost unbearable to watch due to the extremely annoying commentator Beth Mowin. Her voice is shrill and she never shuts up. We ended up having to turn the volume down so we didn’t have to listen to her ruin the game for us .

Re evaluate your commentators please!

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Lee L Hisey

Dec 29, 2019
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I pay for cable and ESPN blacks out LSU football games in the Lafayette, LA area. ESPN tries to lead people to believe this is a technical issue but it only happens when LSU is playing football. TOTAL SCAM!

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ED WYATT

Dec 29, 2019
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the game between Oklahoma and LSU ( Peach bowl) was the the worst commenting that I have ever heard. Non stop talking and not really following the game. I got so tired listening i finally turned the volume off. Football is enjoyable to watch and mohave the sports caster follow the game, but not listening to what went on Saturday night.

They talked right over Officials commenting about a penalty. Is this the best that you can do? Ed Wyatt

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Frank Zahorchak

Dec 29, 2019
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Fiesta Bowl split screen is absolutely horrible!!! Who cares what coaches are doing on the sidelines?????? NOBODY!!!!! Who cares about constantly looking at statistics?????? NOBODY!!!! I want to watch the game none of that other bullshit is important except to stat geeks!!

Average Joe wants to SEE THE GAME!!!!!!!

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Steve Spivey

Dec 29, 2019
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The split screen on the football game sucks. There's to much going on

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Ed Bezdziecki

Dec 29, 2019
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Please get this to whomever is in charge of showing the Ohio State vs Clemson game.

I'm watching the Ohio State vs Clemson game. The camera feed has 4 different camera angles/pictures on my TV plus game stats. Thanks for turning my 65" tv into four 28" screens that I can't see. When the game is playing...I can only watch one of the four camera angles at a time. Why can't I get one 65" picture...after all that's why I spent the big bucks to buy a 65” TV. The game is unwatchable with five different boxes on one screen.

This was not used for the LSU vs Oklahoma game. Please change it now.

Ed Bezdziecki

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mike

Dec 29, 2019
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I was looking forward to watching the Ohio State vs LSU game. Now I am turning it off due to the terrible split screen you are televising. Thsi is the worst idea I have ever seen in sports broadcasting. Thanks for ruining the game.

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Christine

Dec 28, 2019
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You have a crystal ball?? What nimrod for your app thinks tomorrow’s game has been played and Seahawks have clinched division and top the conference??? Beyond annoying!!!

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conrad kappel

Dec 28, 2019
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Your triple split screen coverage of the LSU / Oklahoma game is horrible and difficult to watch. I have turned it off.

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Jim samolczyk

Dec 28, 2019
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Who in the hell decided to show LSU vs OKLAHOMA game in split screen? They should be fired. That is the worst broadcast i have ever seen. Wakeup assholes.

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