Hollywood Inc.
With everything going on at DirecTV, Disney and the industry at large, this is clearly not just any old carriage dispute.
Sept. 10, 2024
Sports
Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving about $20 million in salary with ESPN to join the St. Bonaventure basketball program. NBA insider Shams Charania or Chris Haynes may succeed Woj.
Sept. 18, 2024
Disney and DirecTV agreed to a new distribution deal, restoring ESPN, ABC and other channels for more than 10 million DirecTV and U-Verse customers.
Sept. 14, 2024
Disney pulled its channels from DirecTV and U-Verse on Sunday, just minutes before a highly anticipated USC-LSU college football game. DirecTV has offered credits to customers as the blackout reflects building tensions in the TV industry.
Sept. 3, 2024
World & Nation
The U.S. government has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former advisor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds.
Sept. 6, 2024
Ryder was previously co-host of the ‘Kevin and Bean’ morning show on KROQ-FM. He was brought over to the rival station in 2021.
Sept. 7, 2024
Lifestyle
In ‘The Morrison Game Factory,’ Lauren Bello created an affecting, story-driven tabletop game about an abandoned board game factory — a tale of love and loss.
Sept. 19, 2024
The star of “First Take” has been taking on issues beyond sports through his podcast and on cable news networks, some of which have offered contributor roles, he says.
The ABC and ESPN blackout on DirecTV — affecting nearly 11 million homes — comes during a busy sports calendar with college football, the NFL and the U.S. Open tennis tournament.
Sept. 1, 2024
Mike Greenberg, known for the sports-talk radio show ‘Mike & Mike,’ takes over for Sam Ponder as host of ESPN’s ‘Sunday NFL Countdown.’ Ponder was laid off.
Aug. 20, 2024