"PTI has always chosen to be different from everything else on ESPN, dating back to the moment it first hit the airwaves. It has continued to resist changing its core formula despite trends within the industry and within the network itself. So, why change now?"
"The savings we were able to generate by going through this other way of doing station imaging — utilizing AI — saved about 10 people who otherwise would have lost their jobs as a result of the expense reductions we wanted to put in place."
It's a dog-eat-dog world. When survival is more important than thriving, you have to do what you have to do. I give credit to both sides for thinking about the bigger picture.