Awful Announcing
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.
ESPN looks set to assign permanent anchors for the 6 p.m. SportsCenter, which they haven't had since early March.
"You all acknowledge that one of the strengths we have going for us as a show is Michael and Jemele's chemistry, but Michael and Jemele don't fucking talk to each other?"
Layoffs are expected to hit both front-facing and behind-the-scenes talent, and to hit SportsCenter particularly hard.
