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When cowardice meets incompetence?
By Javier Palenque
MEMORANDUM FROM JAVIER PALENQUE
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Date: Miami September 30, 2021
To: Immediate Past President and Chairman of the Board of the United States Lawn Tennis Association
From Javier Palenque
Ref: TV RATINGS PROBLEM
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Horrible TV rating over the contract of ESPN
This was sent to me by a ESPN executive who follows me. Latest report from ESPN who paid $10M over CBS in 2015. The logical question would be how was the $10M extra you received per year used to increase tennis participation or support the supposed mission? I want to see a dollar by dollar breakdown. This will tell us if it was used in the claimed mission or not.
Please see link to validate what I have just said. ESPN paid 30% more for rights and viewership keeps declining and you and your board refuse to hear solutions from outsiders. This is called not honoring your fiduciary duties as CEO is knows as dereliction of duties, look it up. Why is this the case? I imagine you expect the rights in 2023 to increase or decrease given…