ESPN’s coverage of the Final Four marked the most-viewed women’s national semifinals on record, garnering an average of 10.8 million viewers, which is up 138% year-over-year.
"...Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith have now some sort of unprecedented power in the history of the place to call out an executive by name who runs the place and shortly thereafter, the executive is gone."
The ESPN platform, which is currently being referred to as “Project Flagship,” will be released in 2025 and include the full breadth of its media rights packages in addition to ESPN+, its current subscription-based streaming service.