{"id":7084,"date":"2009-04-01T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2009-04-01T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:59:31","slug":"sportnet-gets-a-grinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7084","title":{"rendered":"Sportnet Gets A Grinding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sport-grind-tmjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sport-grind-tmjpg.jpeg','popup','width=200,height=81,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sport-grind-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"81\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sport-Grind-Tm.Jpg\" \/><\/a>On March 19, 2009 when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportnet<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GrindTV<\/a><\/strong> announced that they were<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6602\" target=\"_blank\"> joining forces<\/a><\/strong> to create a super online sports company backed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbank.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Softbank Capital<\/a><\/strong> many wondered how long it would take the new company to realize efficiencies in the work force. The answer: about 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources familiar with the situation more than 30 people were relieved of their duties at <strong>Sportnet <\/strong>yesterday, leaving the group with approximately 12 employees. Apparently, GrindTV co-founders <strong>Erik Hawkins<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Morrow<\/strong> are holding on to the individual site editors (which is good) and their own employees, as GrindTV staff reportedly did not experienced any cuts yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 19, 2009 when Sportnet and GrindTV announced that they were joining forces to create a super online sports company backed by Softbank Capital many wondered how long it would take the new company to realize efficiencies in the work force. The answer: about 10 days. According to sources familiar with the situation more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}