Awful Announcing
"We respect and acknowledge there are a variety of feelings about what happened and the actions we took. The details of what took place last year are confidential, nuanced and complicated personnel matters."
"When the league is ready, we're interested in having that conversation with them."
A recent incident involving broadcaster Dave Lamont highlighted tensions at the network.
Rita Ferro and Justin Connolly previously reported to Mayer; they'll now report to Pitaro and Peter Rice.
Four years after its launch, The Undefeated is set for a further expansion, and EIC and senior vice president Kevin Merida will now report directly to ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro.
"If Le Batard feels the need to address a political issue in the future, he will check with higher-ups."
Le Batard is set to return to a regular radio schedule next week.
Dan Le Batard was on the air on Friday, a day after his pointed criticism of both President Trump and ESPN's "cowardly" no politics stance.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said in February "I don’t see The Walt Disney Company, certainly in the near term, getting involved in the business of gambling, in effect, by facilitating gambling in any way." Well, they're doing so at the moment thanks to their stake in DraftKings.
"We’ve been leaders in the virtual reality and augmented reality space for a long time now. We’ve already developed content for the Oculus [VR headset] and are willing to make our content available in those spaces."
ESPN's putting a big football game on ACC Network to kick things off, and get providers to pick the network up.
Last year, Fox aired a simulcast of the NFL Network’s coverage of the first two days of the...
