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Danny Parkins to Fill in For Colin Cowherd on The Herd

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Danny Parkins to Fill in For Colin Cowherd on The Herd

670 The Score afternoon host Danny Parkins will be filling in nationally for Colin Cowherd on Monday and Tuesday. Parkins took to X and posted, “Cool professional update. The next time I host a show will be Monday July 8th and 9th from LA filling in for the great Colin Cowherd on The Herd. This is a big one! Have a happy 4th and I’ll talk to ya on FS1 on Monday.”

Parkins, who hosts Parkins & Spiegel weekdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT along with Matt Spiegel, was a guest of Cowherd’s on his podcast in early April.

In the introduction of the podcast, Cowherd said about Parkins, “A really talented guy. I really hope you will listen to the next hour with Danny Parkins, Chicago radio host. And the most talented sports talk radio host I think out there right now at his age…”

To start the interview, Cowherd told the story about how he found out about Parkins. “I first heard of Danny Parkins from Nick Wright,” he said. “…Nick had introduced me to two or three people. A couple of them were just obnoxious and annoying and then he introduced me to Danny and told me to listen to his show. And so, I fashion myself as some sort of talent scout, obviously not, but since I started The Volume, I really enjoy it…I go to Chicago regularly and listened and I thought, ‘wow this guy is about the best young guy I’ve heard in the country.’”

Parkins has been making guest appearances across the country as he promotes a book he co-wrote, Pipeline to the Pros, with Ben Kaplan.

Jim Ross: ‘I’ve Never Seen Tony Khan So Ecstatic with My Work as He Was After the Show on Sunday’

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Jim Ross: ‘I’ve Never Seen Tony Khan So Ecstatic with My Work as He Was After the Show on Sunday’

All Elite Wrestling announcer Jim Ross put a scare into wrestling fans last week when he posted on his X account, “Another trip to the ER. Difficulty breathing. Likely an overnight stay. I’ll be ok. Let’s fight!” With the Forbidden Door pay-per-view event coming soon afterwards, fans were concerned Ross would not be able to work on the broadcast team. As it turns out, Ross did make it and talked more about his status with his Grilling JR podcast partner Conrad Thompson for an episode scheduled to drop later this week.

“Are you ok, what’s going on man?” asked Thompson.

“I had a respiratory infection, and you just have to deal with those things. I was short of breath. I got past it.”

Ross, who had been hospitalized last month with influenza A, added, “It’s been a challenging week to say the least. I got back from Oklahoma where I had hospital time, now I’m back in Jacksonville. Things were busy. I like being busy. I think I’m just insecure, I feel like I’m not contributing to the welfare of my cause if I don’t stay busy. It’s all good.”

Ross then told Thompson about his time in New York and being back on the road with the AEW team. “I had a good experience,” Ross said. “I wasn’t sure how much fuel I’d have left in the tank…It was good fellowship. A lot of people were very supportive, and I appreciated that. It was good to have support, friends. It all worked out pretty good.

“…I got lucky. I had enough energy and stamina to pull it off. It’s just funny how an old veteran like me can survive the schedule, the intensity.”

Ross then talked about AEW CEO Tony Khan and his response to having Ross able to work on Forbidden Door.

“I’ve never seen Tony Khan so ecstatic with my work as he was after the show on Sunday night, and I appreciated that. It was timely. I understand the ways of the world in wrestling so that I didn’t go crazy here. Just a good scenario and good situation and I appreciated his kind words, he was very nice to me after the show, so it worked out good.”

Ross, 72, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007.

Christopher ‘Mad Dog’ Russo: New York Giants Having Editorial Control Over ‘Hard Knocks’ Is Ridiculous

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The offseason edition of Hard Knocks featuring the New York Giants premiered on Tuesday night and drew interest from sports fans, eliciting reviews of the first episode within the five-part series across social media. Consumers were given inside looks of how the Giants handled certain situations during the offseason, including the decision to let Saquon Barkley walk to the division rival Philadelphia Eagles in free agency and how the team perceived quarterback Daniel Jones. Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo, however, would not watch the series because of the team possessing final editorial control over parts of the show that are aired and left on the cutting room floor.

The New York Giants Giants organization will be celebrating its 100th season in the NFL next year, and Nilay Shah, senior vice president of marketing and brand strategy for the team, said in a statement that it provided NFL Films with “unprecedented access to this critical time of the year” from the moment last season ended. Joe Schoen, senior vice president and general manager of the New York Giants, divulged the organization having final editorial control at a recent event. As a result, Russo stated that he would not view the series if he had “insomnia,” he claimed on Wednesday’s edition of First Take, and viewed the oversight as “ridiculous” and not representative of legitimate television.

“Do you think John Mara is going to allow you to see anything that is a bit controversial [that] happens with Joe Schoen or Brian Daboll or Wink Martindale, who was fired, any of these scenarios between January and May?,” Russo said. “You’re not going to see a word. It’s going to be sugarcoated and vanilla, so why would you watch five hours. Are you that desperate to see how the Giants work some draft pick out?”

The offseason edition of Hard Knocks is the first series within a year-round programming schedule surrounding the franchise, which is produced by HBO and NFL Films. The Chicago Bears will be featured on the training camp edition of the show while the entire AFC North division will take part in its in-season edition.

“This is television,” Russo said. “If you don’t like it, you know what, you don’t like it, but it’s good TV, it’s good for football and the fact that the Giants will tell you what they want to see it makes it not worthwhile. I wouldn’t watch that if it was in my backyard – I’d close the blinds.”

Brian Custer, who was filling in as the host of the program on Wednesday, mentioned that he loved when the Dallas Cowboys were on Hard Knocks because owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones would let everything be aired. Chris Carlin, who produced Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN early in his career and currently co-hosts Carlin vs. Joe on ESPN Radio, elaborated on the situation and gave his perspective as to why the Giants are being featured on the show in this manner.

“This is the thirst of the fan for anything NFL-related, so they’re going to let them do whatever they want,” Carlin said. “That’s what’s going to happen.”

Kendrick Perkins, who was appearing on the program remotely, concurred with Russo’s point that he would want to see everything going on if he were to watch the show. Without being able to watch the genuine sequence of events, he is not entirely interested in the offseason show.

“I don’t want it to be edited – I wanted it to naturally have it be authentic,” Perkins said. “I’m right there with you. Damnit, I don’t want to watch it either if they got control over it.”

Ahead of the 2007 season when Herm Edwards was serving as the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, the organization was featured on the show. With that experience, he asked why the Giants are being featured on the show and questioned what there would be to present on the air.

“Why do we want to watch the Giants?,” Edwards said. “Come on.”

New episodes of Hard Knocks premiere on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. EST on HBO and streaming on Max. The training camp edition of the show with the Bears will take the air starting on Tuesday, Aug. 6 and continue to debut new episodes through Sept. 3. As a result, Hard Knocks will feature new programs every week until the start of the NFL regular season.

Howard Eskin Banned by Sixers; Spike Eskin Addresses Story on 94WIP

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Howard Eskin Banned by Sixers; Spike Eskin Addresses Story on 94WIP

Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that longtime Philadelphia sports talk radio host Howard Eskin had been banned from Citizens Bank Park for the remainder of the Phillies season after an investigation found he had made an unwanted advance toward a female Aramark employee back in May. Today, the Philadelphia 76ers told the paper the team won’t grant Eskin access to their training complex for an undecided amount of time.

In a column from Marcus Hayes, he says the team asked the Wells Fargo Center, where the team is a tenant, to also deny access to Eskin. Additionally, Hayes gives his opinion that Eskin should be suspended until next May by WIP owner Audacy (Eskin hosts a weekly Saturday show and is a sideline reporter for Philadelphia Eagles games on the station) and for all of the local teams to ban his access for a season.

Howard Eskin’s son Spike Eskin, the former 94WIP and WFAN program director, is now an afternoon host on the station and as Ike, Spike, and Fritz began today, the younger Eskin briefly addressed the subject.

“The only reason I am mentioning this here at the top of the show is because I have love and respect for my co-hosts here, Jack and Ike, and I have a great love and respect for people who listen to this show,” he said. “I’ve only been on the air for a few months, but I feel like we have a great group and a great community, and I feel like you are owed that.

“So, there’s a story out there about my dad. And you can read it, you’ve probably read it, you probably heard about it. The truth though is that he and I are different people who do different things, even though he did this job and I do this job. I am not him he is not me. I think we have made that very clear over the years for better or for worse.

“I don’t feel comfortable at all speaking on the issue itself, as I would not if it were anyone else at WIP. It’s his issue with the radio station and with the people involved, it is not my issue. As far as this show goes and as far as I go, we are going to do this show exactly as we always do. There’ll be no difference. Things will go as they do and from this point on that’ll be it out of me.

“The reason for that is I because I feel it is the right thing to do, the respectful thing to do. And truthfully, these four hours out of my day is the highlight of my day. And I feel like this show is my escape from everything else. The same way that it is the escape for you…That is what it is. I felt it was the right thing to say something but that’s about all I can or will say.”

With that, the show went on to talk about the Philadelphia Eagles and did their show just as Eskin said they would.

Crowd React Media Study Highlights Spanish Language Media Consumption

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Crowd React Media Study Highlights Spanish Language Media Consumption

Harker Bos Group and Crowd React Media have unveiled a new study that shows just how imperative radio is to the Spanish language media ecosystem.

According to the study, 69% of respondents said that radio plays at least a somewhat influential role in their media habits. News radio is even higher, with 71% saying they consume content from the genre. Additionally, 79% say podcasts are an influential medium in their audio consumption.

In total, 72% of respondents in the study said they listen to radio regularly, with 70% claiming they listen to at least one hour of AM/FM radio daily. While music is the biggest draw, 53% claimed they were regular news/talk listeners, dwarfing that of other formats like sports (26%).

There are also important takeaways for advertisers from the study. 40% of Spanish-language listeners claimed they were more likely to purchase products advertised in Spanish than strictly in English.

In total, more than 500 Spanish-language media consumers were surveyed by Harker Bos Group and Crowd React Media. The entire study will be made available on Tuesday, July 9th.

Jason McCourty: No Reason to Move For ‘Good Morning Football’ Aside From ‘Selfish Ambition’

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Jason McCourty: No Reason to Move For ‘Good Morning Football’ Aside From ‘Selfish Ambition’

NFL Network morning program Good Morning Football is moving its production to Los Angeles after spending parts of the last eight years in New York City. While show members Jamie Erdahl and Kyle Brandt will be remaining with the program, Jason McCourty is not going to be making the move across the country. McCourty, who joined Good Morning Football in 2021, is going to be leaving the program and is currently in conversations with CBS to continue calling NFL games as a color commentator next season. The former NFL cornerback and Super Bowl champion explained his rationale regarding the decision on the latest edition of SI Media with Jimmy Traina.

In addition to its regular program airing on NFL Network, the program will add a new two-hour extension series syndicated by Fox Television Stations. The decision to move came after Good Morning Football earned its highest regular-season viewership since 2017. When McCourty first learned that the show was relocating, he immediately thought that he would have no interest in going to California. In reflecting back on his disposition, he remembers being in a state of shock about the move that he did not see coming. At the time, he had been preparing when to go on vacation and take time off for the next season.

“When that news hit the beginning of March [that] at the end of March it’s going to be our last show in New York, originally, you know, like anybody, you’re like, ‘Screw them, I’m not going to LA,’” McCourty said, “and I think as time went on, the realization is like, “I really love the show. I love being around the people that are involved in the show.’”

McCourty and his wife tried to envision what it would look like if they moved to Los Angeles in order for him to continue doing the show. CBS was not a factor at the time; instead, he was focused on what would be the best outcome for his family. Throughout the second half of McCourty’s NFL career, he and his family frequently moved to different cities across the country, including a stint when he won the Super Bowl with the New England Patriots. In this moment though, McCourty could not think of any reason aside from “selfish ambition within the industry” to continue his career on the show.

McCourty’s wife also told him that if they went to Los Angeles, he would be taking the air at 5 a.m. PST, resulting in him having to wake up several hours earlier. During his first few months working in New York City, he described himself as a “zombie” who was irritable during the morning hours. The quality of life pertaining to how it would feel as a husband and father were factors into the decision as well. McCourty explained that NFL Network expressed interest in wanting to keep him on the show, but that it did not make sense to pick up an option in his four-year contract when he told them that he would not be moving.

“The hope was, ‘Alright, maybe there’s something you could work out and figure out,’” McCourty explained, “and those things, I think for them, are a little bit further down the line as they determine exactly what GMFB is going to look like for the future with Kyle and Peter and Jamie and everybody.”

In being caught off guard by the decision, McCourty stated that he is continuing to learn how the sports media industry can be unpredictable at times, similar to when he was playing football. During his 13-year career in the NFL, he experienced what it was like to be cut and traded, requiring him to adjust to the changing circumstances. McCourty is aware that there is no guarantee he will get a better job on another studio show, aspects that factored into his decision, but he ended up deciding not to relocate.

McCourty conveyed his gratitude for Schrager and Brandt for welcoming him and Erdahl to the show upon the departures of Nate Burleson and Kay Adams. Throughout his time in the industry, he has come to realize that everyone is replaceable and did his best to fill the void that Burleson’s departure left. At the same time, he learned more about television through osmosis as he watched Schrager and Brandt execute their roles with aplomb and avidity.

“When the chemistry and relationships work within a show, that’s huge too,” McCourty said. “When you can walk into that studio Monday through Friday and everybody feels good about being there and Peter can look at me and say, ‘You know what? JMac’s a good teammate,’ and I can feel the same way about him, and we continue to further our relationship, I think that’s the big thing.”

Marshawn Lynch Co-Hosting New iHeartMedia Podcast with Gavin Newsom, Doug Hendrickson

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Former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch has been involved in sports media coverage in the past, including on Thursday Night Football studio broadcasts and ESPN SlamBall telecasts last summer. Lynch is now engaging on a new project being referred to as “an unexpected collaboration” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Wasserman Group NFL agent Doug Hendrickson. The Politickin’ podcast, available through iHeartPodcasts, will release a new episode every week and discuss “the conversations that need to be had.” The show will make its debut on the podcast platform on Monday, July 15.

“It’s bridging gaps,” Lynch said within an introduction released on Wednesday. “You sit down, you come to the roundtable. We need to figure it out. I need to figure out where you coming from, right, but you need to figure out where he’s coming from. Your politickin’ might be a little bit different, you feel me? You handle yours a different way. We bring each side, all walks of life, like how we doing right now, and we figure out what we got going on, and what I’m going to call that is Politickin’, not because he a politician, but because that’s just what we do complete.”

Newsom followed up by saying that the show will be politickin’ without politics, concurring with Lynch’s description of the program. Adam Schefter, senior NFL insider at ESPN, divulged that the show has been in the works for the last six months. He also explained that Newsom and Hendrickson have been friends with one another since the 1990s and that Hendrickson has represented Lynch since 2007.

“We got a lot to do together right now,” Newsom said. “That’s why you’re listening to Politickin’, on iHeartRadio.”

Jim Moore Back with Jason Puckett After iHeartMedia, KJR Severance and Non-Compete Over

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Jim Moore Back with Jason Puckett After iHeartMedia, KJR Severance and Non-Compete Over

At the end of March, in a round of iHeartMedia layoffs, Jim Moore was let go by KJR in Seattle. As it turned out, that didn’t sit well with Moore’s partner Jason Puckett who had just negotiated a new contract with the station and so he walked. Shortly thereafter he launched PuckSports.com and new digital content including a ‘Daily Puck Drop’ show. Jim Moore will now join him on that podcast three days a week.

Moore posted on his X account, “Severance and non-compete clause ended June 30th so joining [Puck]⁩ on his podcast at PuckSports.com on Monday. Looking forward to it. Hope you’ll check it out. Puck’s been great to me, just want to help him out if I can.”

In a video that accompanies the post, Moore clarified he won’t just be coming on the show on Monday saying, “The big news, semi-big news, medium news, small news, maybe miniscule news…I’m coming back to PuckSports.com joining Jason Puckett on his podcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

“His idea to have me work three days a week. He probably figured I was so burnt out that’s all I could handle anymore, or he was sick of working with me for five days a week, so he wanted to take me in a small dose. And so, it’s going to be Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

On his most recent podcast, Puckett said, “I can’t wait for it, because his purgatory time is up. You guys have asked for it. We have found him somewhere surviving in Bend, Oregon and if we can pull Jim Moore away from his morning routine of walking his dog…the go to guy will be back with us on Monday for the Daily Puck Drop…we return, we reunite together.”

As far as the three days per week, Puckett quipped, “If that senior citizen can maybe survive and work a little bit more than three days a week, maybe we will add a few more. I’m excited to have him back…I miss him dearly. I just miss bantering and having a fun time with him. We probably have a lot to go over on Monday.”

Moore also said in part on his video, “We’ll see how it goes…I’ve got no reason to be filtered with anything anymore, so I’ll let everybody have it.”

ESPN ‘NBA Today Free Agency Special’ Averages 1.24 Million Viewers on Sunday

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ESPN ‘NBA Today Free Agency Special’ Averages 1.24 Million Viewers on Sunday

As free agency within the NBA continues, players around the league are signing new contracts and determining where they will play next season and beyond. Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics signed a five-year deal reportedly worth $315 million earlier in the week, the largest contract in NBA history, to remain with the team after winning an NBA championship. LeBron James, Paul George and Klay Thompson have all selected teams for next season as well, and there have been many additional transactions both by means of signings and trades. ESPN presented a special edition of NBA Today this past Sunday as free agency opened breaking down all of the action that attained record levels of viewership.

The NBA Today Free Agency Special averaged 1.24 million viewers on Sunday evening, the most-watched NBA free agency special in the history of ESPN, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. Viewership for the broadcast this year was up 207% over last year’s free agency show. Moreover, this year’s program peaked at 1.44 million viewers from the 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. EST quarter-hour.

Malika Andrews hosted the free agent special edition of the NBA Today with analysts Kendrick Perkins and Richard Jefferson on the panel. Senior NBA writers Brian Windhorst and Zach Lowe were also on the show, in addition to insiders Ramona Shelburne, Bobby Marks and Kendra Andrews. The program followed a WNBA matchup between the Indiana Fever and Phoenix Mercury that averaged 1.93 million viewers, the 10th WNBA game of the season to average at least 1 million viewers.

Prior to the beginning of the 2021-22 NBA season, ESPN launched the NBA Today program, which airs on weekdays from 3 to 4 p.m. EST. Sunday’s edition of the show was the largest audience to ever watch the studio program, keeping with the trend of successful studio programs at the network. ESPN recently announced that First Take attained a 23rd consecutive month of year-over-year growth and that Get Up had its best first six months of a year in show history.

Caitlin Clark-Diana Taurasi Matchup Draws Fourth-Largest WNBA Viewership Since 2001

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Caitlin Clark-Diana Taurasi Matchup Draws Fourth-Largest WNBA Viewership Since 2001

The anticipated WNBA matchup between Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever and Diana Taurasi and the Phoenix Mercury lived up to the hype. The game resulted in an 88-82 Fever victory and the television audience came in as the fourth-largest WNBA viewership in over 20 years.

The game averaged more than 1.9 million viewers on ESPN, which also made it the second most-watched WNBA game ever on ESPN. The matchup between the Fever and the Chicago Sky on June 23 is the only game with a larger average audience on the network.

Sunday’s game was the first of three matchups between the two teams this season, with the next two happening on July 12 and August 16. This game peaked at 2.7 million viewers.

Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch reports the game was the most-watched WNBA game featuring Taurasi, which was previously her debut game in 2004. Lewis says the Fever-Mercury game was the 10th WNBA game this year to average at least one million viewers. Seven of those ten have averaged over 1.5 million viewers, all of which have featured Clark and the Fever.

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