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NFL Sunday Ticket Crowded With More Issues in Week 3

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The NFL Sunday Ticket issues that appeared in the first two weeks of the NFL season continued to show themselves in Week 3.

In the first two weeks of the season, DirecTV was lambasted online for not being able to provide customers access to the entire NFL slate as the service promises. On Sunday, it was much of the same. A quick survey of the official DirecTV twitter account on Monday shows dozens of replies to customers complaining that the service did not work for them.

DirecTV has one more year of the service’s distribution rights before it will move on to another company. The new company that will host the NFL Sunday Ticket feature has not been announced.

John Granato: ESPN Cares About Aaron Judge More Than Fans Do

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John Granato: ESPN Cares About Aaron Judge More Than Fans Do

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is still chasing the franchise and American League record for home runs in a single season, and ESPN 97.5 morning co-host John Granato couldn’t care less.

After a week of coverage centered around Judge, and consternation about the possibility of Judge breaking the record on AppleTV+, which would have limited coverage. ESPN and MLB Network broke into coverage during Judge’s at-bats over the weekend, which caught the ire of Granato.

“I don’t care about Albert Pujols. You know what else I’m sick of hearing about? I don’t care about Aaron Judge,” Granato said. “ESPN cut in all the time. I was listening to our station the weekend, I’m driving, they’re talking college football, and then ‘Let’s cut-in to Aaron Judge’s at-bat’. No! I don’t care! Stop with Aaron Judge! No one gives a rat’s ass, outside of New York. Who cares? Stop already. Bonds hit 73. This is 61. He’s gonna pass Roger Maris for the American League lead and the Yankee lead. Who cares?!”

Granato later asked who held the National League record for consecutive games with at least one-hit. Joe DiMaggio holds the record at 56, set with the Yankees. Pete Rose had a hit in 44 straight games, but no one cares, because it’s not the record, he argued.

Thursday Night Football Ratings Slightly Dip In Second Week

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Amazon Prime Video saw ratings for Thursday Night Football drop from 13 million for its debut broadcast featuring the Chiefs and Chargers to 11 million for the Browns and Steelers.

The 11 million viewers, however, is a 39% increase over Thursday Night Football from week 3 of last year, which saw the Carolina Panthers face the Houston Texans exclusively on NFL Network. Amazon’s internal numbers, paired with Nielsen’s estimations for the Cleveland and Pittsburgh markets suggest 13.6 million viewers watched the week contest.

Even with the ratings dip, Thursday Night Football was stilly easily the top-rated program of the evening. Law & Order: SVU was second place with 5.5 million viewers.

Another interesting note, according to Nielsen’s ratings, the average viewer of Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video is 46 years old. That average is six years younger than the average viewer on tradition television.

Joe Haden Says He Has Met With Networks For Potential Gig

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The playing days are over for Joe Haden. He told Pat McAfee that he didn’t receive any offers to play this season that he felt justified leaving his family in California. Now, he says he is fully in dad mode with his two sons.

That doesn’t mean that he is done with the NFL. The three-time Pro Bowler says he is retired and interested in making a move into the broadcasting world.

“I’ve been meeting with CBS,” Haden said on Monday’s edition of The Pat McAfee Show. 

He said that at one point, he had discussions with Amazon about joining its Thursday Night Football crew.

“We were just talking, but they weren’t doing anything with active players, so they’re doing the Thursday Night Football thing. I was talking to them this offseason, but they kinda cut short because they thought I was still playing.”

So what does the perfect broadcasting role look like for Joe Haden? 

“I’m really into the commentating,” he said. “I really like that.” 

Haden added that he would be open to any opportunity. In addition to being a dad and working on his broadcasting skills, he is dabbling in California real estate to pass the time.

Kayleigh McEnany: Tiffany Cross ‘Lap Dog’ For Joe Biden

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Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany had strong criticism for MSNBC host Tiffany Cross.

During her show Outnumbered, McEnany discussed phrasing used by prominent Democrat lawmakers, as well as former Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and President Joe Biden himself in regards to Donald Trump supporters.

“What’s been interesting is it’s not just him,” said McEnany of Biden’s put downs. “Some lap dogs have followed the president’s orders in using the same language.”

The program then aired a clip of panelists from The Cross Connection, the show the aforementioned Cross hosts on MSNBC, saying MAGA Republicans are the “biggest threat to democracy”. The most explosive comments were made by Roland Martin, who called Trump supports “evil” and went as far to say “we are at war” with them.

Harris Faulkner called the comments “irresponsible” before saying the language is damaging and could be used to fuel anti-conservative crimes. She also rebuked Clinton for her comparison of Trump supporters to slavery and Hitler.

Cross raised eyebrows earlier this month by saying a Civil War has already begun, after Republican Senator Lindsay Graham said there would be “riots in the streets” if former President Donald Trump was indicted for having classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Doug Gottlieb: Ime Udoka Coverage Not Centered On Race

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Last week, Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka was suspended for the duration of the 2022-2023 season for an improper relationship he had with a team employee. Many speculated on the identity of the woman, while other pundits said the only reason Udoka’s infidelity came to light was because of his race. Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb pushed back on that assertation.

“The biggest issue is the media coverage of it and even in the Twitter-sphere,” Gottlieb said. “Not just trying to search for ‘What woman was it? Who could it be?’, but we have this ridiculous part of the media. And I am part of the media, you’ll have people go on TV or radio and go ‘the media, the media, the media’, hey dude, if you’re on TV and you’re representing ESPN or ABC, FOX, NBC, you’re part of the media. I’m part of the media. We are part of the problem.

“Twitter is a cesspool,” Gottlieb continued. “And I know, I participate in it. It has its use for me. It has its use for our business. It is a great way to communicate and a great way to read breaking stories and be a news feed. But you have people on Twitter who want to relate this story to the Brett Favre story. Or they want to ask ‘Why are we finding out about Ime Udoka when this has occurred in other places?’. That’s for Twitter, but for people like — I’ll just say it — Stephen A. Smith to question why this has come out, what are the other possibilities?”

Gottlieb continued by saying the idea that Udoka’s transgressions came to light simply because of his race is outlandish, pointing to other scandals that focused on power dynamics.

“It all links to this thing that we’ve become, which is gross, and I think we know what it is, but unless we say it, if we tip-toe around it, it becomes the elephant in the room,” The Doug Gottlieb Show host said. “Ime Udoka is black. I don’t know how to point that out to you, but he is, in fact, a black man and a very successful one at that. So is that the reason he’s being pointed out? No.

“If you’re not looking in the narrow focus of this story you realize whether it’s CBS why they made a change, Fox News, look at all the changes they made there. NBC and the Today Show. Ever heard of Matt Lauer? This is not a new story, this is a new element to the overall story. But this is not a new story.”

Ken Rosenthal Discusses Bowtie Origins

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When you watch Ken Rosenthal report from the dugout on FOX or FS1, he is usually wearing a unique bowtie that represents a signature charity. The MLB insider has been wearing bow ties during games for a decade, but it wasn’t always his decision to do that.

On the latest episode of the Starting 9 podcast with Barstool Carl and Jake Arrieta, Rosenthal said that it was the higher-ups at FOX that ordered him to start wearing bowties in October 2012: 

“I wasn’t inspired. I was ordered. FOX ordered me. I believe it was the 2012 NLCS (Giants-Phillies) and the order came down from the highest power on FOX Sports. They said they wanted me in a bow tie for the World Series. I had never worn one in my life. I started wearing them for the World Series with the help from some people at FOX, who would tie them for me because I did not know how to tie them.”

After that season, Rosenthal said he ran into a former football player who had a non-profit organization that asked Rosenthal to wear the bowties for different causes and it allowed him to make the best of the situation.

“That winter, a former football player named Dhani Jones approached me and he had this non-profit foundation called The Bowtie Cause. What they do is design bowties in partnership with various charities and he wanted me to be the person that represented them. At first, I was resistant. I didn’t want to wear the bowties ever again, but then I had a rare revelation. You know what, FOX is going to make me do this again, so I might as well get control of it.”

Rosenthal mentioned that FOX wanted him to wear the bow ties so he would be noticeable when people watched on TV. While the network ended up proven right, he wanted his work to do the talking, not the outfit.

“The idea that the people at FOX had initially was to make me stand out and that was the purpose of it. I hated that. To me, it’s the work that’s supposed to make you stand out….They ultimately were proven right because it does make me stand out and we turned it into a good thing for good causes.”

As for his reporting, Rosenthal prefers writing stories over breaking news because it’s not going to be something that another writer can confirm. However, he told the duo he understands people go to Twitter to see what news he’s going to break next.

“Over the years, I have done the breaking news and I’m sort of known for that as well. Yet, as more time goes by, the value of that seems to be less. Even if I break the biggest story I can think of today, that story will be mine for 2 minutes maybe before somebody else confirms it and the whole world has it. I still do it and there are certain kinds of stories that you can write that maybe no one else can touch and that’s a good break because it’s not a transaction.”

“There are a lot of people who follow on Twitter and that’s what they want, so that’s part of the job too.”

Gavin Newsom: Fox News ‘Ruthless’, ‘Dominates With Illusion’

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) made interesting comments about cable news outlets, specifically Fox News, during a weekend appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival.

Newsom said Fox News drives the political discourse in the nation, and pointed to people in his personal life whose beliefs are shaped by the network.

“These guys are ruthless on the other side,” Newsom said. “That prime time line up by Fox, they are ruthless. They dominate the most important thing in American politics today, and that’s the narrative. Facts become secondary to narrative. They dominate with illusion. We are getting crushed.”

Fox News has dominated the cable news ratings, especially in the primetime hours that Newsom alluded.

The clip of Newsom’s comments aired during CNN’s New Day Monday morning. Anchor John Avlon felt Newsom was correct in his opinion.

“He has a good point about the unified narrative of Republicans that tends to put Democrats on defense because they are saying ‘Gosh, look at all those lies. It goes back to that saying of Will Rogers almost a century ago, ‘I’m not a member of an organized political party. I’m a Democrat,’” Avlon joked.

Mike Gallagher: Media ‘Looked The Other Way’ In North Dakota Political Murder

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Mike Gallagher: Media ‘Looked The Other Way’ In North Dakota Political Murder

The murder of a politically conservative North Dakota teenager continues to be a talking point for conservative pundits, and radio host Mike Gallagher said the mainstream media has turned their attention away from the story.

“Jesse Watters did a great monologue yesterday pointing out the media looking the other way, and yes, the mainstream media has looked the other way and haven’t made a big deal over the man who was charged and released after running over an 18-year-old that the man driving the car called a Republican extremist,” Gallagher said.

He then added the phrase has been used to label conservatives and is now being used to draw harm on them.

“Does that sound familiar? The phrase Republican extremist? Because we’ve been hearing that phrase a lot lately. An awful lot. Coming from the President on down,” Gallagher said.

“And there I am, I’m watching TV yesterday and there’s my friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt, and he’s like ‘It was DUI, I don’t know that it was an attack’. Mark Davis in Dallas (said) ‘Let’s let the fact emerge and we wanna make sure we give the guy the benefit of the doubt’. Are you kidding? The police report was very specific over what the guy said. But now we suddenly don’t want to believe what the suspect himself said? Because we don’t wanna offend people in accusing somebody of a political crime? A political attack. Why would a Republican, why would a conservative, why would anybody be nervous about expecting accountability for a man who said he committed a political crime?”

NPR Senior Vice President Nancy Barnes Leaving Network

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NPR Senior Vice President and Editorial Director Nancy Barnes is departing the network.

NPR’s David Folkenflik wrote a detailed article for the network’s website, sharing that Barnes revealed her departure on Friday. It appears Barnes took issue with the creation of a Chief Content Officer position that would be above her in the hierarchy of the organization.

“As many of you have noted to me and others, there is increasingly overlap between the News and Programming divisions,” Barnes wrote in a memo to the staff. “Now is the right time for me to pursue some other opportunities.”

According to Folkenflik’s report, Barnes and NPR Senior Vice President for Programming and Audience Development Anya Grundmann “often disagreed on which podcasts or innovations to pursue”.

Calling her exit bittersweet, Barnes said she will remain on the job until at least late November.

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