"If ESPN Radio wanted to make the strongest statement possible about its commitment to the platform, there may not have been a better option available at this moment than bringing Mike Golic home. Sometimes the smartest move isn't chasing what's next. It's recognizing the value of what already worked."
"I'm saddened that it's often the largest media companies — those that rely on creative content and entertainment — that repeatedly eliminate the very people who helped build those organizations into the giants they have become."
truTV started hosting TNT Sports prime time programming in March, which featured programs leveraging the properties within the Warner Bros. Discovery portfolio.
And truTV could use the attention. In 2023, the network ranked 84th in ratings across all viewers, with an average audience of 120,000, an 18% drop from the year before.
The "TNT Sports on truTV” programming lineup will feature live, studio, and pre-recorded content regularly televised weeknights from 6 p.m. to late-night ET
The broadcast reached 11.6 million unique viewers across networks, up 20 percent vs. last year. Its average of 5.5 million viewers was up 14 percent YoY.
"Our strategy on sports may be slightly different, we don’t have a sports network, per se, so we need to be disciplined and very choiceful about the things that we agree to do and want to do. But once we do, once that becomes part of our portfolio, we go all in.”
"If ESPN Radio wanted to make the strongest statement possible about its commitment to the platform, there may not have been a better option available at this moment than bringing Mike Golic home. Sometimes the smartest move isn't chasing what's next. It's recognizing the value of what already worked."
"I'm saddened that it's often the largest media companies — those that rely on creative content and entertainment — that repeatedly eliminate the very people who helped build those organizations into the giants they have become."