Showing 31 - 45 of 53 articles tagged "National Anthem Protests"

• 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 Thursday 11/02/17 at 4:50PM EDT

  TV executives blame overexposure, not National Anthem protests, for declining ratings

  “Media executives are rallying around an explanation for the National Football League’s declining TV ratings: too much football available in...

• Posted Monday 10/16/17 at 6:18AM EDT

  Glee and American Idol alum Jessica Sanchez took a knee while singing the National Anthem at an NFL game

  The Season 11 Idol runner-up knelt while singing the words “home of the brave” during the Chargers-Raiders game Sunday in...

• Posted Thursday 10/12/17 at 2:11PM EDT

  ESPN’s Jemele Hill will continue to be paid during her two-week suspension

  ESPN oral history author James Andrew Miller tweeted that Hill's suspension is with pay.

• Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 1:25PM EDT

  President Trump sends an early morning tweet attacking Jemele Hill and blaming her for ESPN’s ratings woes

  “With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have ‘tanked,’ in fact, tanked so badly it...

• Posted Monday 10/09/17 at 10:47PM EDT

  Jemele Hill’s SportsCenter co-host, Michael Smith, opts to sit out tonight’s show

  When ESPN allegedly tried to keep Hill off the air last month after the White House reacted to her Trump...

• Posted Monday 10/09/17 at 3:47PM EDT

  ESPN suspends Jemele Hill for two weeks after she suggested fans boycott Dallas Cowboys sponsors

  The SportsCenter anchor was given a warning after tweeting last month that Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

• Posted Friday 10/06/17 at 4:37PM EDT

  NFL sees another ratings boost as CBS' Thursday Night Football soars 26%

  Last night’s game on CBS benefited from the presence of Tom Brady.

• Posted Monday 10/02/17 at 8:13PM EDT

  ESPN changes its mind, opts to show national anthem on Monday Night Football following Las Vegas tragedy

  ESPN originally decided not to show tonight’s anthem before the Kansas City Chiefs-Washington Redskins game, after last week’s anthem protests...

• Posted Monday 10/02/17 at 6:58AM EDT

  ESPN won’t televise the National Anthem before today’s Monday Night Football game

  Tonight, the cable sports network will return to its normal coverage of not showing the anthem after much of the...

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 11:05PM EDT

  Rob Corddry: I don’t expect Ballers to tackle the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick controversies

  “I personally think Trump just made this a story, and he’s also kind of backed off on it,” he says.

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 4:13PM EDT

  Fox doesn’t plan to show any NFL player National Anthem protests on Sunday

  “The standard procedure is not to show them because of the way the commercial format works and the timing of...

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 2:51AM EDT

  The Voice alum Meghan Linsey says she’s been receiving death threats after taking a knee at NFL game

  Linsey took a knee in Nashville this past Sunday after singing the National Anthem at the Tennessee Titans-Seattle Seahawks game.

• Posted Wednesday 9/27/17 at 3:06PM EDT

  Why didn’t TV networks show angry, booing NFL fans while showing the National Anthem?

  One anonymous TV staffer tells the Sporting News that camera operators were ordered to avoid crowd shots.

• Posted Tuesday 9/26/17 at 10:39PM EDT

  Grey’s Anatomy cast celebrates 300 episodes by taking a knee

  Shonda Rhimes tweeted pics from the 300th-episode celebration and found inspiration in NFL players who took a knee, writing: “we...