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On Monday’s First Take, Stephen A. Smith urged ESPN’s leadership to "cherish" analysts Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick and Ryan Clark, warning they could be poached as the network integrates NFL Network talent following a merger. He highlighted Orlovsky’s recent multiyear contract extension and his ambition to ascend to the lead Monday Night Football booth, despite being removed from the secondary MNF team. Smith also suggested Riddick for a general‑manager role and Clark for a coaching job, underscoring the broader talent‑retention challenge. The remarks come amid ESPN’s strategic reshuffling of its NFL coverage assets.
The 2026 Masters Tournament kicks off Thursday, April 9 and runs through Sunday, April 12. While ESPN, CBS, Paramount+ and Amazon Prime Video will stream the event in HD, 4K coverage is exclusive to DIRECTV, which will broadcast the iconic Amen Corner...
Main Street Sports, owner of the FanDuel Sports Network, will shut down its regional sports network (RSN) at the end of the current NBA and NHL seasons, freeing the broadcast rights for 13 NBA and 7 NHL teams. The leagues...
NBC acquired Sunday Night Baseball rights but scheduled the St. Louis‑Detroit game exclusively on Peacock due to a conflicting NBA double‑header on the broadcast network. The streaming‑only approach forces viewers without Peacock to miss the game, sparking social‑media complaints. NBC announced...
TV Media Blog released its weekly sports viewership report for the week of March 23, ranking the top 75-plus telecasts using Nielsen's Big Data methodology. The list reflects linear television audiences and deliberately omits viewership from streaming platforms such as...
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and ESPN analyst Troy Aikman told a podcast that the Miami Dolphins hired him because he possesses league‑wide information that other teams cannot easily obtain. He admitted his consulting role creates a clear conflict of interest,...
Tom Brady, retired NFL quarterback, is in the third year of his ten‑year, $375 million broadcasting deal with Fox and continues as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. In a recent blog post, he reflected on the difficulty of...
The NBA leveraged its new media rights to air “Sunday Night Basketball” against March Madness, delivering a combined 3.4 million viewers for the Knicks‑Thunder matchup on NBC. This marked the league’s strongest March‑Madness‑era audience in a decade, surpassing the 2016...
TNT Sports CEO Luis Silberwasser says the network is "extremely interested" in extending its NHL partnership and is ready to begin talks whenever commissioner Gary Bettman decides. The league’s renewal timeline may be tied to the NFL’s ongoing media‑rights negotiations,...
Main Street Sports Group announced it will wind down its FanDuel Sports Network regional sports networks within roughly five weeks, ending NBA regular‑season coverage and NHL first‑round playoff broadcasts. The move follows the loss of its core Major League Baseball...
Riot Games launched 2XKO with a high‑budget esports vision, but costly skins, aggressive marketing and a top‑down structure clashed with the fighting‑game community’s authenticity‑first culture. Early layoffs of most of the development team signaled waning corporate commitment, while community‑run events...
The Baltimore Ravens and Dallas Cowboys are slated to play a Week 3 NFL matchup in Rio de Janeiro, marking the first of three Brazil games scheduled over the next five seasons. This will be the third NFL contest ever...
ESPN signed former Eagles star Jason Kelce with expectations of a football‑centric analyst role, but his on‑air presence has been scattered across Monday Night Countdown, a short‑lived late‑night show, NHL coverage, and now golf events like the TGL and the...
Comcast Xfinity blacked out several Scripps-owned regional NHL stations, including those airing Florida Panthers games, after failing to reach a new carriage agreement. ESPN has taken operational control of NFL Network as part of a broader deal that gives the...
Veteran broadcaster Ian Eagle once warned that NIL deals and the transfer portal could dim March Madness, fearing roster churn would erode team chemistry. He now says the opposite: player‑movement freedom and name‑image earnings have lifted on‑court talent and fan...
