Executive Producer of MASN says "nah, I'm good", jumps off sinking ship

[interloper]

Not that I'm giving this guy any credit, really, as the production/broadcasts over the last few years have been pretty poor.

[LookinUp]

Can someone smarter than me tell me WTH is going on with MASN? 

[interloper]

Just now, LookinUp said:

Can someone smarter than me tell me WTH is going on with MASN? 

They're a sham company with a bunch of idiots at the helm, basically. 

[Can_of_corn]

1 hour ago, LookinUp said:

Can someone smarter than me tell me WTH is going on with MASN? 

Ownership is slashing costs?

[OriolesMagic83]

Maybe he wasn't ok w/ his salary being cut to $8/hr wage?

[Moose Milligan]

Gotta hand it to @interloper, the thread title was pretty funny.

[spiritof66]

1 hour ago, LookinUp said:

Can someone smarter than me tell me WTH is going on with MASN? 

I don't know about the "smarter" part, but I've posted several times my view that many of the Orioles' decisions are consistent with a plan to sell the team. My view about that has gotten stronger; I've started but haven't finished a longer post explaining why I think that, but here's the bottom line: the Orioles' strategy and tactics are consistent with either (a) the Angelos's plan to sell the team or a big chunk of it after Peter Angelos dies, or (b) the Angeloses' expectation that their financial situation upon Peter Angelos's death will force them to sell all or a large part of the team. The MASN decisions about spring training and dumping veteran broadcasters, saving a few dollars now and increasing MASN's short-run profits, without concern for the effect on fan interest, and then relenting a little when the situation gets so ridiculous that it leads to media attention and some embarrassment, fit right in.

[interloper]

10 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Gotta hand it to @interloper, the thread title was pretty funny.

Haha. My disdain for this stupid, broken, half-assed sports network has really reached new heights this year. If folks want to place the blame squarely on the Angelos's for its failure, then I don't really have a great argument against that. It's clear they are going to have to pony up to the Nats and when they do MASN will be close to bankrupt. They can barely sustain partnerships to get the damn channels broadcast, the only broadcaster still involved worth a damn is Palmer and it remains to be seen for how long. They can't even get their s*** together for long enough to announce the pitiful 2 games they're broadcasting, and in fact it was "announced" by a MASN parody account on twitter like 24 hours before they finally got around to it. 

Their pre/post game shows are objectively bad, their in-game graphics are dated (PAPYRUS??), and they offer no real programming when the games aren't on. It had a few good years there but the thing is dead in the water and deserves to be.

[Aglets]

7 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

I don't know about the "smarter" part, but I've posted several times my view that many of the Orioles' decisions are consistent with a plan to sell the team. My view about that has gotten stronger; I've started but haven't finished a longer post explaining why I think that, but here's the bottom line: the Orioles' strategy and tactics are consistent with either (a) the Angelos's plan to sell the team or a big chunk of it after Peter Angelos dies, or (b) the Angeloses' expectation that their financial situation upon Peter Angelos's death will force them to sell all or a large part of the team. The MASN decisions about spring training and dumping veteran broadcasters, saving a few dollars now and increasing MASN's short-run profits, without concern for the effect on fan interest, and then relenting a little when the situation gets so ridiculous that it leads to media attention and some embarrassment, fit right in.

Couldn't it also be that they are slashing costs way down cuz MASN owes the Nats like $100M?   Isn't that at least equally as likely here?

[eddie83]

43 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Gotta hand it to @interloper, the thread title was pretty funny.

Glass didn’t jump he was pushed off. 

[eddie83]

37 minutes ago, interloper said:

Haha. My disdain for this stupid, broken, half-assed sports network has really reached new heights this year. If folks want to place the blame squarely on the Angelos's for its failure, then I don't really have a great argument against that. It's clear they are going to have to pony up to the Nats and when they do MASN will be close to bankrupt. They can barely sustain partnerships to get the damn channels broadcast, the only broadcaster still involved worth a damn is Palmer and it remains to be seen for how long. They can't even get their s*** together for long enough to announce the pitiful 2 games they're broadcasting, and in fact it was "announced" by a MASN parody account on twitter like 24 hours before they finally got around to it. 

Their pre/post game shows are objectively bad, their in-game graphics are dated (PAPYRUS??), and they offer no real programming when the games aren't on. It had a few good years there but the thing is dead in the water and deserves to be.

I think they deserve most of this criticism. All these RSN’s don’t have much in the way of quality programming except for the the games. That said showing the same classic games again and again gets old. 

[jabba72]

I think it has to do with the Nationals revenues increasing in the coming years. Aren't the Nats winning all the court appeals about revenue? To me that sounds more likely for the cuts than any intention to sell the O's. 

[Orioles0615]

3 hours ago, LookinUp said:

Can someone smarter than me tell me WTH is going on with MASN? 

Angelos Family

[interloper]

50 minutes ago, andrewochs615 said:

Angelos Family

Sure, but MLB, the Nats, the cable networks, and the head people that work at MASN all share some blame as well. COVID was the stiff breeze that blew over the house of cards. It's just a poorly managed entity. 

[spiritof66]

2 hours ago, Aglets said:

Couldn't it also be that they are slashing costs way down cuz MASN owes the Nats like $100M?   Isn't that at least equally as likely here?

I'm not following this. The owner of the Orioles ordinarily would want to make decisions that will improve the team's success on the field and increase the team's value by maximizing its long-term ability to earn profits. Sometimes those two things are in conflict, and a team faces a difficult decision.

It's my view from the outside, shared by others on this board, that the Orioles' recent decisions about MASN don't make sense financially, and are likely to undermine the long-term profitability of the team. I don't see how that view is affected by money owed to the Nats (and I've long forgotten how much it is), but maybe I'm just missing the point.