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Posted Monday 10/02/17 at 6:58AM EDT
ESPN won’t televise the National Anthem before today’s Monday Night Football game
Tonight, the cable sports network will return to its normal coverage of not showing the anthem after much of the...
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Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 11:05PM EDT
NFL on Amazon was mostly just football on TV, with internet glitches
Amazon’s first broadcast of an NFL game Thursday night might have been a preview of the future.
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Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 2:51AM EDT
The Voice alum Meghan Linsey says she’s been receiving death threats after taking a knee at NFL game
Linsey took a knee in Nashville this past Sunday after singing the National Anthem at the Tennessee Titans-Seattle Seahawks game.
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Posted Wednesday 9/27/17 at 3:06PM EDT
Why didn’t TV networks show angry, booing NFL fans while showing the National Anthem?
One anonymous TV staffer tells the Sporting News that camera operators were ordered to avoid crowd shots.
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Posted Tuesday 9/26/17 at 5:44PM EDT
NFL ratings actually went up 3% after President Trump’s attack on National Anthem protesters
Updated numbers show that CBS saw a ratings bump on Sunday, while Fox was down.
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Posted Tuesday 9/26/17 at 2:26AM EDT
ESPN’s Doris Burke will be the first woman to become a national NBA game analyst
She’ll regularly analyze NBA games, both in the regular season and in the playoffs.
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Posted Monday 9/25/17 at 1:26PM EDT
ESPN will begin measuring its viewership based on streaming and regular TV viewing combined
Starting Monday, viewership will be measured using what's known as “Total Audience Measurement.
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Posted Monday 9/25/17 at 1:24PM EDT
NFL shows seriously covered President Trump’s comments berating players for kneeling
ESPN’s three-hour Sunday NFL Countdown devoted 22 minutes to Trump’s comments at the start of the show (with the president’s...
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Posted Wednesday 9/20/17 at 2:21PM EDT
Report: Jay-Z turned down the Super Bowl halftime show
According to The Source, the NFL approached the rap mogul about becoming the 2018 Super Bowl halftime performer.
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Posted Monday 9/18/17 at 10:50PM EDT
Is the NFL’s RedZone channel a source of its ratings and attendance woes?
The RedZone channel, showing live "whip-around" coverage of games airing on CBS and FOX on Sunday afternoons, has been “singled...
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Posted Monday 9/18/17 at 1:40PM EDT
Friends is a hit among Latin American Major League Baseball players who use it to help learn English
New York Mets infielder Wilmer Flores, a 26-year-old from Venezuela, is so obsessed with Friends he’s watched each episode seven...
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Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT
Don Ohlmeyer thought he’d be remembered for putting on an NFL game without an announcers
The former NBC executive, who died Sunday at age 72, thought experimenting with an announcer-less game would bring in ratings,...
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Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT
ESPN is setting a terrible precedent by sending College Gameday to Times Square
The college football staple deserves to be at the location of a football game, not in the “worst part of...
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Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 3:31PM EDT
Amazon’s NFL stream will include an audio option for football newbies
When it begins showing NFL games in two weeks, the streaming service will offer two audio feeds, the CBS feed...
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Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 3:31PM EDT
Trump urges ESPN to “apologize for untruth” in wake of Jemele Hill calling him a white supremacist
Trump tweeted early this morning, “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming).