Sports biz insider identifies potential Norby Williamson replacements at ESPN
The next person isn't coming from ESPN's mailroom.
The next person isn't coming from ESPN's mailroom.
"It's not about what Pat said, it's about how Norby was involving himself with a major piece of talent that the company clearly wanted to succeed."
"Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith have some sort of unprecedented power in the history of the place to call out an executive by name who runs the place and shortly thereafter, the executive is gone."
"What I just found disquieting, was the stuff calling out individuals by name. Including one that I’ve known for 40 years who has always dealt with me honestly and forthrightly."
"Leaks? I wanted to take a leak when Jo Koy was talking during the Golden Globes monologue."
After being called out by name by Pat McAfee as leaking negative info about his show, just how much power does Norby Williamson have at ESPN?
"The overarching theme is, we all want our opinions to matter or want our opinions to be heard."
"Such a good story."
Amanda Gifford is set to be ESPN's point person on college football, with Mark Gross taking much of the responsibility for their NFL coverage.
Williamson will replace Druley as the new head of NFL programming.
Replacing Le Batard's radio slot with Mike Greenberg feels like a pretty good sign of ESPN's current corporate brand over personal brand approach.
"We’re taking away ‘OTL’s’ linear half-hour daily presence and expanding it. If you compare that 30 minute weekday show from 1-1:30 to the amount of impressions that I’m going to get, we’re going to impact more people."
The ESPN-on-ESPN violence in the wake of the Andrew Luck retirement take-fest led to at least one instance of Norby Williamson getting involved.
The short-lived SportsCenter show was often accused of having a "liberal bias."
After taking criticism for hyping a 6 p.m. SportsCenter ratings boost over SC6 last month, ESPN has done that again.