Skip Bayless’ high-profile breakup with ESPN is looking more and more like the first drop in a flood of changes that could wipe away the media giant’s morning TV empire.

Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg’s “Mike & Mike” looks like the next domino to fall.

Last week, Sports Illustrated reported ESPN was thinking about moving Greenberg off his radio show, which is simulcast on ESPN2, in order to give him a “SportsCenter”-like morning show. Then on Wednesday, ESPN colleague Dan LeBatard seemed to inadvertently confirm the “Mike & Mike” split was for real.

After joking about how he wanted to break up with his own ESPN radio co-host, Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, LeBatard said, “These marriages don’t tend to last. The nature of television partnerships and radio partnerships is that they flame out because forever contracts make it hard to be in these relationships and not get tired of each other.

“Well, ‘Mike & Mike,’ it’s been reported … well, I don’t know what’s been reported out there, and what’s not out there, and what’s real and what’s not real, but it’s been reported that ahhh … OK, never mind.”

LeBatard tried to nervously laugh his way past the subject, but the implication was clear. One of the longest-running partnerships in sports radio and TV — more than 17 years — is probably done.

If “Mike & Mike” is no more, it means ESPN’s highly successful block of shows between 6 a.m. and noon ET will each have changed in the past six months.

The changes have not been good for ESPN’s ratings. “First Take,” which kept Stephen A. Smith and brought in Max Kellerman to replace Bayless, averaged around 325,000 viewers between Sept. 6 and Oct. 6, a nearly 30 percent drop in viewership versus last year, according to Sports Illustrated.

ESPN can take solace in the fact that Bayless might be doing even worse. Snapped up by Fox Sports 1, reportedly for more than $5 million per year, Bayless’ new show, “Undisputed,” grabbed a measly 90,000 viewers per show during the same period from September into October. FS1 also is trying to craft a new lead-in for Bayless and Shannon Sharpe’s show. The Sporting News reported the cable channel is in the early stages of developing a three-hour morning program that will take you directly to the “Undisputed.”

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Whether or not Bayless manages to bump up his numbers, it is clear that his old employer is in turmoil.

They are trying to reinvent their flagship show, “SportsCenter,” as younger audiences seek out highlights on social media. Top talents such as Bayless, Bill Simmons and Keith Olbermann have departed. And even their live sports broadcasts, like the record-breaking deal to show NBA games, are starting to look less and less profitable.

It’s no wonder, then, that analysts are giving Disney’s stock the stink eye.