Awful Announcing
Charania's contracts with The Athletic and Stadium expire later this month. Both are looking to keep him, but other suitors could also get involved.
Upcoming ESPN+ content includes Mike Greenberg interviewing bettors, a documentary on Oklahoma State, Cal Ripken Jr., Joe Montana, and Wayne Gretzky doing episodes of Detail, and more.
The MAC is proposing to play football in the spring, and other conferences may follow. ESPN reportedly has interest in televising the MAC's games then, and they may wind up being fine televising other conference games in the spring as well.
After ESPN+ commentator Jane Crafter stepped on Rory's ball while helping to look for it, McIlroy faced a choice some of his competitors wouldn't have even considered.
Scott Van Pelt and a ton of live golf shots were welcome presences for ESPN's day 1 coverage of the PGA Championship.
An ESPN employee took cellphone recordings of a video feed from Rachel Nichols' hotel room that was running without her knowledge while she was on the phone. Someone then leaked some of those recordings.
"There are only 10 reporters and a handful of other folks who are going to be able to experience this and document it first-hand."
A recent incident involving broadcaster Dave Lamont highlighted tensions at the network.
ESPN has apparently checked out from their sports programming to present a Chris Berman-introduced Eagles concert film.
"Boston is incredibly defensive when it comes to any accounts from Black people about any potential racism that they’ve faced there."
While some are yelling at ESPN commentators to "stick to sports," much of this seems to fall within ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro's 2018 comments that "There is going to continue to be an intersection of between sports and politics and we’re going to continue to cover that."
This marks the first time two separate networks have produced their own live coverage of the MLB Draft.
Rita Ferro and Justin Connolly previously reported to Mayer; they'll now report to Pitaro and Peter Rice.
ESPN+ gained 300,000 net subscribers since the last earnings report in February, but a lot of that may be about the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle.
With ESPN's contracts stating they have until Sept. 2021 to make up their promised number of events, don't expect them to offer rebates any time soon.
