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Maybe it's one of those things where the ratings are good, so they figure that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I read similar reasoning in a Dr. Z column on SI.com regarding ESPN's horrendously bad Sunday Night Football crew. A producer/director/talent scout/something similar wrote to Z and said that since the ratings were so good for the Sunday night game, ESPN was not going to make any changes.

Of course, Z pointed out that the ratings were gonna be high ANYWAY, because football is popular and it's the only game on Sunday night, so why don't they hire some better guys? Maybe the ratings would be even better then, eh? And the producer basically said ESPN doesn't care if announcers are "good" or not if the ratings are sufficiently good.

I think there are a lot of similarities with the WSOP coverage.