australian open Archives - Awful Announcing

Australian Open men’s final sets nine-year viewership high on ESPN

Carlos Alcaraz's four-set win over Novak Djokovic averaged 730,000 viewers on ESPN.

"I find it a little bit disrespectful that you kind of miss out on what happened in between... I don't feel like I'm chasing."

All matches had previously been available on the significantly more affordable ESPN+.

Andrews will handle hosting duties for the second week and championship weekend.

"I just don't think the comment is respectful from a guy I've never met before in my life."

Medvedev was fined more than half his winnings, while Tien delivered a remarkably honest answer during a strange interview.

American tennis star Danielle Collins is having the time of her life embracing a villain role at the Australian Open to the home fans.

For fans that can't access the traditional AO broadcast for whatever reason, this is a decent alternative.

Stephens gave it right back to tennis reporters who wanted to pick apart her post-match celebration at the Australian Open.

It's somewhat understandable why networks go to remote broadcasting. But they should tell viewers.

"They will still think that I defied the umpire, went to the toilet and that I didn’t follow the rules"

ESPN is taking criticism both for remote broadcasts and for the prominence ESPN+ is playing in their coverage.

ESPN's platforms, mainly ESPN+, carry the 2nd round of the Australian Open. ESPN2 has a few hours of coverage.

If smoke forces matches indoors some of the tournament won't be on ESPN; meanwhile players are already questioning how effective that plan would be.

Photo errors can happen, especially with feed tweets that sometimes can put a headline with a wrong photo...

On Thursday morning, Serena Williams defeated Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-4 at the Australian Open. It may not have been...