Holly Wetzel, Author at Awful Announcing

Posts by Holly Wetzel

Holly has spent the majority of her career in affiliate distribution negotiating contracts with content providers across the US. She covers the media landscape of rights fees, retransmission consent, carriage disputes, and the regional sports network business.
She's a Cleveland native and graduate of The University of Mount Union and constantly wishes she was still a student. Since that's never happening, she compensates for it over wine, cooking, sports, not working out, and any Turner Classic movie. Holly can be followed on twitter @HollyanneLiz

Sports media layoffs like ESPN’s are unfortunately here to stay

Sports media layoffs like ESPN's are the product of a broken system. The cable model needs to be restructured, but so does the monopoly of rights fees, who owns the content, and the pricing.