If you haven't noticed yet, any 24-hour sports channel is going to have a lot of repeats and/or boring shows (or, worse, repeats of the boring shows). The effect is multiplied at about this time, when almost nothing is going on. The NBA, NCAA, and NFL are over, the World Cup and Wimbledon are over, so there's basically nothing to watch. Add to that the fact that there are TWO ESPN channels, and you have a lot of unpopular things.