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ESPN Continuing All-Women Led NBA Game and Studio Broadcast on Friday

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ESPN Continuing All-Women Led NBA Game and Studio Broadcast on Friday

On Friday, March 8, ESPN will celebrate International Women’s Day with an all-women led NBA live game and studio broadcast as the Minnesota Timberwolves visit the Cleveland Cavaliers at 7:30 p.m. EST/4:30 p.m. PST. This will mark the third consecutive year that the network will present an all-women broadcast within its NBA coverage, which begins with NBA Today at 3 p.m. EST/12 p.m. PST.

Malika Andrews will host the show along with reporter Ramona Shelburne and analysts Chiney Ogwumike and Becky Hammon. They will be on the air again at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. EST on Friday night for NBA Countdown leading into the live game broadcast from Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Beth Mowins will deliver the call of the game alongside color commentator Monica McNutt and sideline reporter Katie George. Mowins has been the play-by-play announcer for the two previous all-women broadcasts, which will also include a game production team led by women at ESPN. Some of the roles implemented in this initiative last year, as outlined by the network in a press release, include producer, director and statistics analyst among others.

Friday will mark the fifth time this season ESPN is using an all-women broadcast on the season. The network will have 175 women working on the network’s slate of games that day, many of whom work on its NBA coverage daily.

Following the Timberwolves-Cavaliers game, the network will present a matchup between the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from Crytpo.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles. Dave Pasch will be on the call for that game joined by color commentator Stephanie White and sideline reporter Cassidy Hubbarth.

The broadcast will commence at 10 p.m. EST/7 p.m. PST and feature a star-studded matchup between Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lakers forward LeBron James. The commentary team will remain in Los Angeles to commentate the Sunday night game between the Timberwolves and Lakers at 9:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. PST.

Preceding that matchup is the Philadelphia 76ers’ tilt against the New York Knicks from Madison Square Garden, which will include Beth Mowins and Katie George on the broadcast along with color commentator Hubie Brown.

The Michael DelGiorno Show Adds 4 More Affiliates

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The Michael DelGiorno Show Adds 4 More Affiliates

After launching his show with iHeartMedia last October on a trio of stations, The Michael DelGiorno Show has been added to four more markets.

DelGiorno — who hosts from 6-9 AM ET — can now be heard on 600 WREC in Memphis, 1060 WKMQ in Tupelo, 570 WKBN in Youngstown, and 640 WHLO in Akron, according to a report from RadioInsight. All four stations are also owned by iHeartMedia.

The program originates from Talk Radio 98.3 in Nashville. DelGiorno was based in the city from 2007 until March 2023 at SuperTalk 99.7 WTN before exiting his midday program. When his show with iHeartMedia launched, it also debuted on Newsradio 1000 KTOK in Oklahoma City and 1300 The Patriot in Tulsa. He spent time in the Tulsa and Oklahoma City markets earlier in his career.

The four new stations airing the program are the latest expansion for DelGiorno. When the company flipped 1250 WHNZ in Tampa back to its former Impact Radio branding — moving away from Spanish news/talk — it added The Michael DelGiorno Show in morning drive.

Report: Peyton Manning Pursuing Bill Belichick for Omaha Productions

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Report: Peyton Manning Pursuing Bill Belichick for Omaha Productions

Andrew Marchand of The Athletic has reported Peyton Manning and Omaha Productions are interested in hiring former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. Marchand’s reporting goes a step further and also says his sources are telling him, if Belichick does partner with Manning, there is a possibility of Omaha and ESPN partnering for a Bill Belichick and Nick Saban “Manningcast” type broadcast.

Bill Belichick and Jason Kelce are two names at the top of several outlet’s list of new talent to potentially bring in for football analysis. Nick Saban has already been hired by ESPN to work on College GameDay, the NFL Draft and other projects. Saban retired from coaching, however, several people close to Bill Belichick believe he is still planning to coach after taking this year off. So, signing Belichick could be a short-term plan for whichever outlet retains his services.

Marchand reports that Belichick has told networks he has met with that he is not interested in doing a weekly studio show. If a network is hesitant to give Belichick a prime seat in an NFL booth, perhaps the alternate broadcast route could make the most sense.

Omaha Productions collaborates with ESPN on the “Manningcast,” which features Peyton Manning and his brother Eli discussing the Monday Night Football game while interjecting guests into the conversation. The alternate broadcast debuted in September, 2021

Parkins & Spiegel Already Miss Jason Benetti in Chicago

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Parkins & Spiegel Already Miss Jason Benetti in Chicago

Danny Parkins and Matt Spiegel, of 670 The Score in Chicago, couldn’t make it past one broadcast without missing former White Sox announcer Jason Benetti. Benetti made his Detroit Tigers broadcasting debut alongside Craig Monroe and Johnny Kane earlier this week in a Spring Training Game.

On the Tuesday edition of Parkins & Spiegel, the hosts hit on a hot topic in the Windy City, which is why Benetti is no longer calling White Sox games and chose instead to move, within the division, to Detroit.

Coming out of break, a clip was played of an old White Sox broadcast with Benetti and analyst Steve Stone talking about a sandwich served at the ballpark. Benetti took a bite of the sandwich on the air, which is really only notable because of things Benetti has said since his departure from Chicago.

Benetti had previously told Parkins and Spiegel that there were little things that he wasn’t such a fan of when it came to working with the White Sox, things like eating on camera or singing, but Benetti never pinpointed one specific thing as the reason why he decided to move to Detroit.

“I’m just saying all this to tell you all that it is super complicated and there were a ton of factors,” he said on 670 The Score in early December. “But in the end, it really is a thing that I felt like I was pulled to do.”

This week, when the clip was played, Spiegel jokingly said, “How dare you sell the experience and the product for a terrible organization…Get outta here.”

Parkins added Detroit wanted Benetti “…because they recognized his talent and his worth and they wanted to make him feel important.”

“They wanted to do a really good TV broadcast, do the Tigers, and they think a broadcaster should help to shape the TV broadcast,” Spiegel said. “…I do believe that the team should absolutely support and build the broadcast with the help of the broadcasters.”

After playing several clips of Benetti’s first Tigers game, the 670 The Score hosts both noticed something immediately. “How happy and excited did he sound to be there?,” asked Spiegel. “He sounds happy,” replied Parkins.

Benetti had been with the White Sox for eight seasons before he decided to take the position with the Tigers. The versatile play-by-play announcer, who also calls college football, college basketball and MLB games for FOX Sports, will call a minimum of 127 Tigers games each season, allowing him to continue his national broadcasting responsibilities.

Ben Shapiro Rises In February List of Top 10 Podcasts

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Ben Shapiro Rises In February List of Top 10 Podcasts

Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro has long been a mainstay in the conservative podcast realm. However, the syndicated radio host is rising up the podcast rankings in the month of February.

The latest rankings from Podtrac show Shapiro as one of the top risers in the space, moving from 9th to 7th on the list of podcasts with the highest unique monthly audience.

The Ben Shapiro Show isn’t the only news podcast featured in the top 20 this month. The first four spots are taken by news podcasts. The Daily from The New York Times remains in the top spot, followed by a pair of NPR podcasts — NPR News Now and Up First. Rounding out the top four slots is Dateline NBC produced by NBC News.

The Dan Bongino Show rests just outside the top 10, ranking 11th in February. Meanwhile, Fox News Hourly Update (14th), 20/20 (15th), 48 Hours (18th), and CNN 5 Things (20th) are also included in the most-listened-to podcasts list.

iHeartPodcasts remains the top podcast publisher, with its 870 active shows reaching a unique monthly audience of more than 33 million. NPR (19.875 million), Wondery (17.631 million), The New York Times (9.8 million), and NBC News (9.4 million) round out the top five of that category.

CBS Sports Extends Terrika Foster-Brasby Through 2025

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CBS Sports Extends Terrika Foster-Brasby Through 2025

CBS Sports contributor Terrika Foster-Brasby recently announced her contract with the network was extended through 2025. Foster-Brasby announced the move via her X account Tuesday evening:

“What God has for you…Excited to announce my continuation working with the CBS Sports family on @CBSSportsNet & @CBSSportsHQ through 2025! I’ve loved my time with @CBSSports and looking forward to the next year!” she said on X.

Brasby contributes to the company’s CBS Sports Network linear channel as well as its CBS Sports HQ FAST (free, ad-supported television) channel as a WNBA, NBA, college basketball, and MLB analyst.

She also contributes to ESPN, where she regularly serves as an in-game analyst for college basketball games. She is the co-host of the WNBA show Around the Rim alongside LaChina Robinson. She also regularly appears on digital properties such as WNBA Hoop Streams, BBTN Live, and Countdown to GameDay. She also served as a sideline reporter for the network’s coverage of the 2022 WNBA Playoffs.

Outside of CBS and ESPN, Foster-Brasby served as a sideline reporter and game analyst for the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun. She previously appeared on ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, NPR, and Amazon Prime Sports, and is a regular contributor to Peacock’s Brother From Another. Her international appearances include the CBC, Canada’s top news network, and she has been a part of various MSNBC panels.

WJR 760 Host Mitch Albom Stranded in Haiti After Uprising at Airport

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WJR 760 Host Mitch Albom Stranded in Haiti After Uprising at Airport

WJR 760 host Mitch Albom is the founder of an orphanage in Haiti. He makes regular visits to the site in the Caribbean nation but is currently stranded in the island nation after a group of gangs tried to overtake the country’s main airport.

“It’s a mess, in plain English,” Albom said while appearing on JR Morning with Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds.

Albom was quick to point out that the children at his Have Faith Haiti orphanage are ok and not in danger due to safety measures put in place. However, he continued by giving details on just how he got to the point of being stuck in the country.

“The country is basically shut down…The long and the short of it is the acting prime minister — Ariel Henry — went to Kenya to secure troops to come here to deal with the gangs because the gangs are running rampant in the country,” Albom explained. “And now he can’t get back into the country. The gangs are basically storming all the airports and saying if he lands here, it’s going to be civil war, because they don’t want him landing. Because if he lands the Kenyans are going to come next and they’re going to come after the gangs. So the gangs are sort of making their last big stand here.”

Mitch Albom then alleged the United States government has instructed Henry to step down, but says there is a problem with that line of thinking.

“There’s nobody behind him. There’s no transitional government,” said Albom. “You could have the gangs just take over the whole country. Meanwhile, we’re all stuck here. We can’t get out. There’s no airplanes, there’s no helicopters, there’s no anything. And everybody, including our orphanage and other people, are quite frightened.”

The WJR 760 host then shared that he had broken the country’s curfew to “see if we could get out of here on a hastily arranged sort of thing that I won’t go into”, but continued by noting that “the streets are just empty because nobody feels safe and nobody wants to go out.”

“We can’t go anywhere. We can’t buy anything, and we can’t get food. Can’t get fuel delivered. So everybody slowly sort of evaporates.”

Albom added that the 60 children at the orphanage are his priority, noting that “they don’t really know a lot about it”, and have remained busy painting a mural while the unrest surrounds them.

‘Good Morning Football’ Moving to Los Angeles, Adding Syndicated Series After Summer Hiatus

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‘Good Morning Football’ Moving to Los Angeles, Adding Syndicated Series After Summer Hiatus

NFL Network morning program Good Morning Football will be moving its production to Los Angeles, Calif., leaving New York City after parts of eight years in the area. The program will move into the NFL Media headquarters in Inglewood, situated within Hollywood Park near SoFi Stadium. The show, which currently features Jamie Erdahl, Jason McCourty, Kyle Brandt and Peter Schrager, is set to take a hiatus beginning on Friday, March 29 before relaunching later in the summer or the preseason at an exact date to be determined.

Upon the program’s relaunch in Los Angeles, it will add a new two-hour syndicated extension series. This show will have its own title and is not set to air on NFL Network, instead being distributed by Sony Pictures Television. While a deal has yet to be agreed upon, the new series is expected to include multiple syndication partners. This new show will be executive produced by Michael Davies, who currently serves as the executive producer of the popular quiz show Jeopardy!

This past NFL season, Good Morning Football attained its highest regular season viewership since 2017. Combined viewership for the show is up 16% year-over-year as well, gains in accordance with a record-setting season for the league. Super Bowl LVIII broadcast by Paramount Global’s CBS Sports division attained an average of 123.4 million viewers across platforms, and a global audience of 62.5 million tuned into the marquee event as well.

NFL Media studios in Inglewood, Calif. currently serve as the home of NFL GameDay and NFL Total Access. The state-of-the-art facility has 5,970 square feet of space for the programs and five soundstages, along with a revolving red, white and blue NFL logo, catwalk for talent and 360-degree camera views. The facility is situated within Hollywood Park, a mixed-use development created around SoFi Stadium, home of Super Bowl LXI and both the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams.

Rachel Maddow: ‘Irresponsible’ for MSNBC to Broadcast Portion of Trump Victory Speech

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Former President Donald Trump essentially wrapped up the Republican primary with his performance on Super Tuesday. That doesn’t mean MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is willing to hear speeches from the nominee yet.

After airing a portion of Trump’s victory speech Tuesday evening, Maddow chastised producers from her own network for giving the nominee airtime.

“I will say that it is a decision that we revisit constantly in terms of the balance between allowing somebody to knowingly lie on your air about things they’ve lied about before — and you can predict they are going to lie about,” said Maddow.

“Therefore, it is irresponsible to allow them to do that. It’s a balance between knowing that that’s irresponsible to broadcast and also knowing that as the soon-to-be de facto nominee of the Republican Party, this is not only the man who is likely to be the Republican candidate for president, but this is the way he’s running.”

When pressed by fellow host Stephanie Ruhle on a plan to “fact check the hell out of him”, Rachel Maddow did not budge.

“We do that after the fact. That is the best remedy that we’ve got. It does not fix the fact that we broadcast it, honestly,” she concluded.

The MSNBC host has never been shy in her insistence that the network not air Trump’s speeches live. Last year, she argued that “there’s a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things,” alluding to the $787.5 million settlement Fox News paid Dominion Voting Systems for airing false statements about the 2020 election being “rigged” against the former president.

AM/FM Radio Most Trusted News Source, New Survey Shows

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AM/FM Radio Most Trusted News Source, New Survey Shows

While the news media’s credibility and perception have decreased in recent years, the news credibility of AM/FM radio remains high.

According to a new survey from Morning Consult, trust in AM/FM radio news has risen in the last four years. 63% of respondents said they have “a lot” or “some” trust in radio, up from 60% in 2020. That figure is more than 20 points higher than social media, which featured the lowest trust score in the survey.

AM/FM was the highest-ranking medium in the survey, with network news coming in at 61%, newspapers hitting 60%, and online-only news sites reaching 56% of “a lot” or “some” trust levels.

Meanwhile, Podcasts saw the biggest jump, elevating from 27% in 2020 to 47% in 2024.

The credibility of mainstream news has recovered slightly since 2020. 55% of the adults in the survey called the leading outlets in each medium “somewhat credible”, which is a rise of 4% compared to 2020.

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