James Pitaro
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Posted Tuesday 3/08/22 at 12:57PM EST
ESPN to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX with month-long Fifty/50 initiative
To commemorate the 50th anniversary in June of the 1972 landmark federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in...
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Posted Tuesday 7/13/21 at 8:15PM EDT
ESPN president responds to the Maria Taylor-Rachel Nichols spat, says he's planning a town hall over the network's diversity
“We respect and acknowledge there are a variety of feelings about what happened and the actions we took,” ESPN president...
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Posted Wednesday 3/24/21 at 7:17PM EDT
Super Bowl may get the ESPN "Megacast" treatment when it's broadcast on ABC
For years, ESPN has shown the college football national championship game with a "Megacast" of alternative options that include a...
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ESPN accused of having an enduring racist culture behind the camera
ESPN's Black employees have begun speaking out on the sports giant's everyday racism and barriers in a series of conference...
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Posted Monday 7/06/20 at 11:05AM EDT
Disney signs a first-look deal with Colin Kaepernick that includes a Jemele Hill-produced ESPN docuseries on his life
One week after Kaepernick teamed with Netflix and Ava DuVernay on a scripted series on his high school years, Kaepernick...
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Posted Tuesday 10/08/19 at 5:56PM EDT
Report: ESPN forbids discussion of Chinese politics and Hong Kong in Houston Rockets GM story
An ESPN memo sent Monday and obtained by Deadspin discouraged any specific discussion on why there are protests in Hong...
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Posted Saturday 7/27/19 at 2:41AM EDT
ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro sees sports as escapism, and that's why he's so intent on avoiding politics
“I’ve had this discussion internally with hundreds of our employees that sports is about uniting and ESPN needs to unite...
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Posted Thursday 7/25/19 at 2:57PM EDT
Dan Le Batard will reportedly continue on ESPN after meeting with ESPN's president
The New York Post's Andrew Marchand reports that Le Batard and ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro met today over the ESPN...
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Posted Wednesday 7/24/19 at 11:33PM EDT
Dan Le Batard to meet with ESPN's president on Thursday to discuss his future with the sports network
Le Batard will reportedly have a formal sitdown with ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro on Thursday, one week after calling his...
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Posted Monday 7/22/19 at 1:32PM EDT
Dan Le Batard voluntarily skipped his ESPN radio show Monday in wake of his anti-Trump comments
Le Batard and ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro reportedly traded phone calls all weekend before the ESPN host decided to skip...
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Posted Friday 7/19/19 at 1:15PM EDT
ESPN tells employees its no-politics policy is in place even after Dan Le Batard violated it and remained on air without possible discipline
Le Batard, the son of Cuban immigrants, ripped President Trump on Thursday for his comments about Rep.
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Posted Friday 7/19/19 at 1:32AM EDT
ESPN's Dan Le Batard slams the sports network's stick-to-sports rules in denouncing Trump's “instigation of racial division"
ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro arrived last year with a mandate to have ESPN personalities avoid politics after the Jemele Hill...
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Posted Tuesday 8/21/18 at 10:26PM EDT
President Trump slams ESPN for not broadcasting the National Anthem during Monday Night Football
ESPN, like other NFL broadcasters, usually doesn't show the National Anthem before NFL games.
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Posted Friday 8/17/18 at 1:55PM EDT
ESPN won't air the National Anthem during Monday Night Football
ESPN will avoid the National Anthem kneeling controversy this season by not showing the anthem.
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Posted Wednesday 6/20/18 at 1:32PM EDT
ESPN is divided by politics: New president says we're not "a political organization"
According to The Hollywood Reporter, new ESPN president James Pitaro "is asserting his leadership of ESPN at a time of...