"We try our best to respect the game and showcase and display it in a fashion that might be a little bit more appetizing for a different group of people that are watching alongside the best play commentators on Earth."
Networks owned by The Walt Disney Company attained several viewership milestones over the weekend surrounding sports coverage. College football and Little League Baseball drew...
This past Sunday, a regular-season WNBA matchup between the Seattle Storm and Indiana Fever averaged 2.23 million viewers on ABC, rendering the second most-viewed...
With the conference ditching longtime partner CBS and jumping to the Disney-owned ESPN/ABC this year, Sankey now presides over an SEC that is fully invested in broadcast revenue, period.
Overall, the MCWS averaged 2.82 million viewers across ESPN platforms, which has it behind only last year's LSU-Florida series as the most-watched on record.
"We look forward to honoring the content that moved audiences in 2026 and continuing the Gracies’ long-standing investment in the people who will shape what comes next.”