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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.
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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
With everything going on at DirecTV, Disney and the industry at large, this is clearly not just any old carriage dispute.
Sept. 10, 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
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.
Sept. 6, 2024
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
Pat McAfee says on his ESPN show that ‘God’ and ‘the universe’ told him to stop talking about Caitlin Clark, apparently after he called the WNBA star a ‘white b—.’
Aug. 22, 2024
“NFL Sunday Countdown” host Samantha Ponder and football analyst Robert Griffin III have been laid off by ESPN, a decision that has been characterized as strictly a business move.
Aug. 16, 2024
Malika Andrews was interviewing basketball analyst Rebecca Lobo on-air Monday when a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck Los Angeles, shaking ESPN’s studios.
Aug. 12, 2024