Tag: ESPN

The network’s digital platform has been at the top of the U.S. sports category for 24 consecutive months.

"...I got asked by Dave Roberts and my agent – they really pitched me hard on doing a year contract with ESPN."

“There can’t be two top dogs up top pulling in opposite directions. If Norby wasn’t sold on the path forward, it was time to move on.”

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.

The report states that ESPN president of content Burke Magnus decided the two executives did not share the same vision for the long-term strategy for the network.

PGA TOUR winner Geoff Ogilvy is joining the coverage team and will appear as an analyst on SportsCenter all week from the event.

"I think the goal is to try and give you information that's palpable and that people can digest and absorb."

The life of an insider takes no breaks, probably causes internal consternation and means you’re on your phone constantly, all in the name of being first to report on a story.