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NFL broadcast producers and execs say they’ll cover anthem protests, won’t dwell on them
Producers and executives from the NFL's broadcast partners say they'll cover and discuss anthem protests, but in a limited fashion.
Richard Deitsch calls Fox’s claims about featuring Katie Nolan “absolute bullshit”
FS1 executives were reportedly furious when Troy Aikman publicly bashed Skip Bayless
FS1 executives were as mad at Aikman as Aikman was at Bayless.
Doug Gottlieb misses the point of Richard Deitsch’s Skip Bayless ratings tweets
When Deitsch tweets about how more people watch Animal Cops Miami than Undisputed, it's not about saying Skip is wrong.
Jim Miller: ESPN will lay off 40-50 employees, all but a few on-air personalities should be nervous
Mike Tirico says moving to NBC without NFL assurances “worked out absolutely perfectly”
One of the big sports media stories last year was Mike Tirico moving from ESPN to NBC, but...
Would you trade jobs with Skip Bayless?
A brief Twitter spat between SI.com’s Richard Deitsch and Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Mac Engel has prompted an...
ESPN Communications staff read mean tweets from Richard Deitsch, Chad Finn, others
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel started the whole “celebrities read mean tweets about them” craze, and it’s now...
Doris Burke: ‘I adore Pop, but do I agree with how he handles those interviews? No.’
Last week, ESPN announced longtime reporter/analyst/host Doris Burke would serve as a regular game analyst for a slate of NBA...
Will we see a woman calling NFL games anytime soon?
Over at SI.com, Richard Deitsch published a column Wednesday in which he spoke with women in sports broadcasting...
Former SI managing editor Terry McDonell: 1/3 of staff disliked Swimsuit Issue
A long-running subject of discussion around Sports Illustrated is the annual Swimsuit Issue, which is regularly one of...
Can audiences expect NBC to talk about Rio Olympics issues during broadcast?
The latest edition of the Sports Illustrated Media podcast with Richard Deitsch dropped on Thursday and his guest was Sports Business...
FS1 reportedly abandoning Fox Sports Live highlight show
When Fox Sports 1 launched in August 2013 as the first apparently serious challenger to ESPN in decades, Fox Sports...
NBC is not the best company for Mike Mayock anymore
As fans and critics of the show Mad Men know all too well, series creator Matthew Weiner would...