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Report: Sure looks like ESPN’s political commentary has chased away right-leaning audiences

By Becket Adams

Published April 27, 2017 11:25pm ET

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Report: Sure looks like ESPN’s political commentary has chased away right-leaning audiences — Put more simply, ESPN's audience skewed to the right in 2015, and then changed somewhat dramatically the next year. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) | Jessica Hill

Though some maintain ESPN’s decline in ratings and subscriptions has little to do with the company’s move towards left-leaning political commentary, one analytics firm says the data suggest otherwise.

In Ohio, for example, ESPN saw a noticeable drop in Republican viewership in 2016, which coincides with the sports media group’s sharper shift towards partisan commentary, according to Deep Root Analytics.

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