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YES Network Sees Highest-Rated Yankees Game Since Derek Jeter’s Final Home Game

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Tuesday night’s broadcast of the Yankees-Blue Jays was the most-viewed YES Network telecast in eight years.

Aaron Judge’s pursuit of Roger Maris’ American League home run record has brought big numbers for the network, peaking at 901,000 total viewers (8:45-9:00p ET) and averaging 708,000 total viewers on Tuesday night. Those numbers are the highest were the highest total for the network since Derek Jeter’s final home game on September 25, 2014. That game averaged 1.2 million total viewers.

YES has averaged at least 600,000 total viewers in each of their last three primetime Yankees games. YES has had 40 games this season that have averaged at least 400,000 total viewers and six games that have averaged at least 500,000 total viewers.

TNT To Replace Dwayne Wade with Jamal Crawford

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Earlier this month, news broke that Dwyane Wade would be stepping away from his role with TNT’s Tuesday night broadcasts. On Wednesday, we learned who his replacement will be.

Jamal Crawford is set to replace Wade on the TNT’s Tuesday night NBA set according the New York Post. Crawford, 42, is going to join Shaquille O’Neal, Candace Parker and host Adam Lefkoe after 20 years as a player.

TNT declined comment. 

Dennis Eckersley: Don’t Be Afraid to Say What Needs to Be Said

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Dennis Eckersley has said that when this season concludes for the Boston Red Sox, he will be calling it a career. On Tuesday night, he offered advice to Will Middlebrooks on how to be successful in the TV booth.

Middlebrooks has been in the NESN booth before but this time, with the exit of Eckersley and the season looming, he took a moment to ask for some advice from Eck.

“I’m new here,” Middlebrooks began, “what would make me good at this job?”

Eckersley didn’t have to hesitate before divulging some wisdom.

“Not being afraid to say what needs to be said,” Eckersley said. “That’s probably one of the hardest things to do coming out of the dugout. Once you leave the dugout, you’re not in the dugout anymore. Players have a hard time with it, because this game is not easy and then we get up here and it looks a lot easier up here.”

Eckersley would continue by adding that being live, as a broadcaster, it can be scary but nothing else compares to the feelings he got while playing.

“Be who you are and it’s scary because if you are who you are, you can’t be afraid to be who you are,” Eckersley opined. “Sometimes you feel a little naked up here because, I don’t know, it’s falling off a cliff sometimes. Because you never know, it’s live. This is as close as it gets to playing because you get a little nervous, I love it. that’s why it’s going to be hard to leave, cause there’s nothing that you do in life that gets you going like this.”

Joe Madison Calls Matt Walsh A ‘Jackass’ For Little Mermaid Comments

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Joe Madison Calls Matt Walsh A ‘Jackass’ For Little Mermaid Comments

Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire recently made comments condemning Disney’s decision to cast Halle Bailey, a black actress, as Ariel in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Walsh claimed it wasn’t accurate “scientifically” for a mermaid to be black. In turn, SiriusXM host Joe Madison called Walsh a “jackass”, among other things, for his comments.

“This is just my perspective,” Madison said. “I’ll be honest with you. Listen to this asshole. I mean listen to him. This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard as it relates to a fictional character. He actually talks like mermaids exist.”

Madison then played the clip of Walsh’s comments, where he argued “from a scientific perspective, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean” before saying, for accuracy’s sake, the mermaid should be translucent. He then added, “that would actually be the version of The Little Mermaid that I would watch”.

“‘From a scientific perspective, can we all agree about mermaids?’…what the f*** is scientific about a mermaid?”, Madison shouted. “I’m just gonna get the $20 out and put it in the swear jar. ‘From a scientific perspective, I’m getting ready to describe to you what a mermaid looks like’. This is what he’s getting ready to do! If you’ve seen a mermaid, call me! Ok!”

Madison continued to be dumbfounded by the statement.

“Disney ought to sue his ass. Who is this guy? Daily Wire? Are you freaking kidding me? Mickey Mouse should be gray! Give me a break! Give me a break! ‘Oh, by the way, scientifically, if you’re in the deep sea, you should be translucent’. Huh? Tell that to the clownfish. I used to have an aquarium. Tell that to the octopus that can change f***ing colors…never mind. I’ll be getting dollars in this swear jar.

“Disney, what you should really do is have a mermaid where you can see her freaking brains and her skeleton. ‘Oh, by the way, that’s the Little Mermaid film I’ll watch’. God. You keep giving out names. He’s a jackass, he’s a troll. No. He’s an asshole. Give me a break! My god!”

Buffalo Sabres Will Travel TV Broadcasters for First Time Since Pandemic

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The Buffalo Sabres revealed they will travel play-by-play announcer Dan Dunleavy and analyst Rob Ray to the majority of the team’s road games this season.

The announcement was made by Chrisanne Bellas, vice president of media and content for the Sabres. She said that the broadcast crew will be traveling for the MSG Network telecasts. The only games the crew won’t travel for are the ones on the West Coast. Dunleavy and Ray will do those games from the studio.

The Sabres broadcasters didn’t travel to road games during the Covid-19 pandemic but the NHL allowed teams to choose to travel last season.

Stephen A. Smith: ‘I Usually Get My Way’ With ESPN

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Stephen A. Smith knows what his value is in Bristol. He was on 94.7 The Block on Wednesday morning to promote his new podcast Know Mercy, which is being produced by The Block’s parent company, Audacy.

During the conversation, Block morning host Miss Jones asked Smith about how he sees his on value in the media world. Smith answered that he began to better understand what his place in the business was and what it could be in 2009 when ESPN declined to renew his first contract with the network.

“Popularity wasn’t my name in the streets, somebody saying ‘Stephen A!’ Popularity wasn’t myself on billboards. Popularity was the ratings and the revenue I brought in, and how I was able to get that information and thereby monetize myself, me recognizing how much I was truly worth rather than using popularity to determine that. And once I had that informational muscle to support what I believed about myself, suddenly I sat up there and I changed my attitude, not just because of what I learned about me, but that same knowledge I learned about my bosses.”

Smith went on to say that he changed his approach and focused not on being right, but instead on what he could do to make the network more money. Once the network saw that was his goal, he found it easier to accomplish the goals he had for his career.

Jones asked what that meant for disagreements between he and his bosses at ESPN.

“I’m a businessman,” Stephen A. Smith said. “You come to me and you tell me that something is affecting the bottom line, I’m all ears. Because we’re in this together, and it’s a business relationship and I understand that. That doesn’t mean you own my thinking. That doesn’t mean I’m going to march lock-step with you 100 percent of the time.”

He added that changing his thinking and gaining a true understanding of his value to the network helped him in those situations where he may say something ESPN isn’t fully on board with. Those conversations are not him on the receiving side of a lecture anymore.

“Of course, I have to listen and to some degree capitulate to what they want. But I usually get my way. They usually listen to me. Because they trust me, and they trust that I’m thinking about them as much as I’m thinking about myself when it comes to business. That’s respect that I hope I have with anybody I choose to do business with because I never think about just myself as I’m conducting business.”

Stephen A. Smith will drop the first episode of Know Mercy on Monday, September 26. New episodes will premier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Monday Night Football Sees Largest Week 3 Audience In ESPN History

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Monday Night Football Sees Largest Week 3 Audience In ESPN History

Monday Night Football has continued to break records for ESPN, and this week’s broadcast was no different as the game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants featured an audience of 19.342 million viewers.

It marks the best week three broadcast in ESPN’s 17-year history of broadcasting Monday Night Football, and is the fourth highest rating in that same time period.

ESPN’s 19.3 million viewers for Cowboys versus Giants was an 11% increase over last year’s week three game that featured the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears.

Two of the network’s top five most-watched games have come this season, as Russell Wilson’s return to Seattle with the Denver Broncos was the fourth highest audience in Monday Night Football on ESPN history. That game saw viewership at 19.845 million.

Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli also drew 1.4 million viewers this week. Through the first two episodes of the alternate broadcast, it’s audience has increased by 15%.

Skyview Networks To Remotely Produce Tampa Bay Rays Games During Hurricane Ian

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Skyview Networks To Remotely Produce Tampa Bay Rays Games During Hurricane Ian

Skyview Networks has announced it will remotely produce Tampa Bay Rays radio broadcasts from Arizona due to Florida office closures as a result of Hurricane Ian.

The Rays have utilized Skyview Networks for more than a decade, and the network’s software allows them flexibility to shift the location of their broadcast facilities. Hurricane Ian is approaching landfall in the greater Tampa area Wednesday, with winds reaching nearly category five levels.

“Skyview Networks is a proud, longtime partner of the Tampa Bay Rays and we are glad to step in for their production team so they can focus on Hurricane Ian,” said Andrew Kalb, SVP Business Development and Communication of Skyview Networks. “Our operations team is diligently working to ensure that the Rays play-by-play remains uninterrupted this week and we are proud to have the technical support and software that allows us to step in wherever necessary.”

The Rays are currently in Cleveland to face the Guardians. That series ends Thursday before the squad goes to Houston and finishes the season in Boston.

Chris Long Discusses Green Light Podcast Growth

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Former NFL defensive end Chris Long continues to be one of the rising stars in the sports media industry with the Green Light with Chris Long Podcast that he records three times a week. So, what does he want you to think after you listen to his show?

Long was a guest on The Adam Schein Podcast this week and he said he wants to convey his knowledge about the game, but also he thinks he could learn a little bit from the fans as well.

“Number one is to communicate information to people about the game. If we are talking about the game, I want people to know what I think I know because I look at it a little differently. I think sometimes I can stand to gain a little perspective looking at it the way the fans look at it but I think there is also a time where a little player insight might help.”

While Long wants the show to be educational, he also wants the listener to feel like they are just hanging out with his friends and that the podcast can be dirty sometimes.

“I want people to feel like they are sitting in the room with us. That’s my favorite thing is just BS’ing with my buddies. We edit some things out. The final product doesn’t always look like it sounded in the room, but for the most part, it’s a dirty show. We dirty things up a little bit. It’s going to sound like it would sound sitting on the couch with 3-4 buddies hopefully drinking a couple of beers. You feel like you are sinking into the couch with us. That’s my goal. It’s supposed to be educational, dirty, and feel immersive and inclusive.”

Every Monday, Long has an NFL weekly wrap-up episode with his brother, Kyle and his best friend, Macon. As he tries to prepare for the show, he told Schein he has more of an appreciation for all the information the national media is able to get.

“As a player, I didn’t have the appreciation for what national media goes through on a Sunday trying to gather all the information that people in their respective local markets expect you to master. You can’t fool fans. They know whether it’s the Bengals, Dolphins, Raiders, they know who the third corner is, they know how this guy performed in camp. There’s a tremendous challenge on a Sunday to not master everything, but to get to the point where you can talk about what happened. Then, on Wednesday and Friday, we can color in why it happened.”

Rest assured, Long is putting in the work for that episode, but he also understands that if he messes something up on Monday, he knows he has the rest of the week to correct the mistake.

“I think that’s one of the hardest things on Monday is not overreacting, but also not overreacting to what happened. Let’s dig in and find out why it happened and look at the context around why it happened. The challenge makes me feel like I’m in school again. I’m up till 2 AM watching Raiders-Titans. You do want to know what the hell happened. Hopefully that comes through, but we also aren’t going to be perfect. It’s Monday. You have a safety net. If I didn’t get it right, I have the rest of the week to rectify the situation.”

Katie Couric Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

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Katie Couric Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

Longtime journalist Katie Couric has announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

The former NBC, CBS, ABC, and now podcast host revealed the diagnosis on Instagram, saying she received the word on June 21st. June 21st was her 8th wedding anniversary to husband John Molner. Her first husband, Jay Monahan, died from cancer in 1998.

Couric had surgery in July to remove a tumor from her breast, and also said she began radiation treatments earlier this month.

“Please get your annual mammogram,” the 65-year-old Couric said on her website. “I was six months late this time. I shudder to think what might have happened if I had put it off longer. But just as importantly, please find out if you need additional screening.”

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