ESPN makes big changes on NFL and CFB oversight
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.
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ESPN announces major executive shakeup including new roles for Norby Williamson and Stephanie Druley
Williamson will replace Druley as the new head of NFL programming.
Dan Le Batard to leave ESPN in January: “It was mutually agreed that it was best for both sides to move on.”
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.
ESPN cancels daily Outside The Lines, changes it to segments and a Saturday show, and Norby Williamson claims they’re ‘expanding’ it
"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."
Dan Dakich and Trey Wingo apparently hashed things out on a phone call in the wake of the Andrew Luck take debate
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.
ESPN exec reportedly complained that SC6 with Jemele Hill and Michael Smith was “too black”
The short-lived SportsCenter show was often accused of having a "liberal bias."
ESPN is again promoting 6 p.m. SportsCenter ratings, maybe a sign of larger shifts in their strategy
After taking criticism for hyping a 6 p.m. SportsCenter ratings boost over SC6 last month, ESPN has done that again.
Sage Steele and Kevin Negandhi look set to host the new 6 p.m. SportsCenter
ESPN looks set to assign permanent anchors for the 6 p.m. SportsCenter, which they haven't had since early March.
What is SportsCenter? In search of a 21st-century identity, ESPN’s signature show has changed course once again
Michael Smith says he and Jemele Hill felt ‘muted’ in final months together on SC6, which ‘frustrated the shit out of us’
"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?"
ESPN reportedly set to lay off more than 100 people post-Thanksgiving, many from SportsCenter
Layoffs are expected to hit both front-facing and behind-the-scenes talent, and to hit SportsCenter particularly hard.