Tag: FS1

"If Griffin truly wants to champion sports journalism, his fight shouldn't be with the people entertaining audiences. It should be with the companies that decided entertainment was the better business model in the first place."

"The strong ratings reinforce baseball's value as a major television property."

"The pirate ship may have found a home in traditional sports television, but that doesn’t mean it’s willing to follow the rules of the harbor."

"A direct quote. You can never have enough Cowboys talk and never enough LeBron talk. [I] swear to God."

"They force you to take topics. That's not real journalism. That's not real conversation. You don't have no respect for the ability of other people to think on their feet that you're making people say something."

"The partnership itself shouldn't be viewed as a failure. It was different. It generated attention, created conversation, reached audiences in ways traditional television has struggled to reach them and, for a time, it worked."

"The people upstairs, going all the way to the top, were more impacted by that kind of clash than you and I were [having]. Like everybody else in this world, they were prisoners of internet overreaction."

"These new media relationships give us a huge opportunity to build on that and continue to reach new fans and introduce them to the incredible competition."

"I’m in the gaming space. There’s not a lot of high-level ex-professional athletes in the gaming space at this level. I don’t know any, to be honest. There’s a lot of gamers that can identify with me, and that’s what I hope to bring to VSiN."

"The media landscape, audience, and definition of what is considered offensive or profane has changed. Yet broadcast radio and television remain bound by standards created for a media environment that no longer exists."