Showing 676 - 690 of 731 articles tagged "ESPN"

• Posted Wednesday 11/29/17 at 8:50AM EST

  ESPN lays off 150 staffers

  Unlike ESPN's mass layoffs in April of more than 100 people, which included prominent on-air personalities, today’s layoffs will affect...

• Posted Monday 11/20/17 at 11:08PM EST

  CBS used crowd noise to mask gay slurs at the Patriots-Raiders NFL game in Mexico City

  Last year, ESPN was criticized for not censoring gay slurs during its broadcast of an NFL game from Mexico City.

• Posted Thursday 11/16/17 at 12:56AM EST

  Catch an NFL-themed glimpse of ABC’s American Idol reboot

  ABC's sister network ESPN shared a clip of Detroit Lions wide receiver Marvin Jones auditioning before Katy Perry, Lionel Richie...

• Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 10:11PM EST

  ESPN president gets a contract extension weeks before mass layoffs at his network

  John Skipper, who has led ESPN since 2012, will continue leading the sports network as it copes with lost revenue...

• Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 10:11PM EST

  ESPN’s SportsCenter on Snapchat doesn’t have NFL replay rights, so it used paper cut outs to reenact highlights

  The Snapchat SportsCenter is doing what blogs have done for years in getting around restrictions on replay rights.

• Posted Monday 11/13/17 at 7:57AM EST

  SportsCenter is launching a Snapchat version, with Katie Nolan hosting the first episode

  The former Fox Sports personality will kick off the 3-5 minute show at 5 p.

• Posted Saturday 11/11/17 at 3:34AM EST

  ESPN’s 30 For 30 on Ric Flair glorified his sexual misconduct

  David Bixenspan notes that in Tuesday’s documentary, “an animated depiction of the scene .

• Posted Saturday 11/11/17 at 3:34AM EST

  ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown and other NFL pregame shows have seen their ratings decline this season

  Even NBC’s Football Night in America has seen its viewership slip this season, down 7.

• Posted Thursday 11/09/17 at 6:08PM EST

  ESPN is getting an ESPN Plus streaming service

  Disney CEO Bob Iger promises a “one-of-a-kind product” with ESPN Plus, which will have ESPN programming plus access to thousands...

• Posted Wednesday 11/08/17 at 12:00AM EST

  ESPN’s 30 For 30 on Nature Boy would be so much better if Ric Flair wasn’t so cagey about wrestling being fake

  “The subject’s caginess about fakery gets in the way of what’s most interesting about his story,” says Noel Murray.

• Posted Tuesday 11/07/17 at 10:17AM EST

  NFL broadcasters' ad prices decline 6.7%

  Of all the networks that carry NFL games, only NBC has seen its prices for commercials rise this season.

• Posted Saturday 11/04/17 at 1:58AM EDT

  ESPN’s Around the Horn turns 15

  “15th Anniversary of @aroundthehorn!’ tweeted Tony Reali, longtime host of the game show-style sports debate show.

• Posted Friday 11/03/17 at 1:59PM EDT

  ESPN’s new social media policy tells employees to not “embroil the company in unwanted controversy”

  “Do nothing that would undercut your colleagues’ work or embroil the company in unwanted controversy,” reads the new guidelines that...

• Posted Monday 10/30/17 at 3:16PM EDT

  What if ESPN drops NFL games?

  ESPN historian James Andrew Miller says the “previously unthinkable” might happen when ESPN’s NFL deal is up in 2021.

• Posted Tuesday 10/24/17 at 5:27PM EDT

  ESPN accused of sexual harassment by Jenn Sterger

  The TV personality alleges that a “decision maker” at ESPN took her to a strip club while she was being...