Jason Kelce has landed his first gig post NFL. Kelce, who recently retired from the Philadelphia Eagles, is heading to ESPN to be part of its Monday Night Countdown pregame show, a source with kn...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/jason-kelce-espn-monday-night-football-1235898961/
Round 1 coverage of the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit was seen by an average audience of 12.1 million viewers (TV+Digital) across ESPN, NFL Network, ABC, ESPN Deportes, and digital channels. The rati...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/nfl-draft-2024-round-1-viewership-1235897314/
Howie Schwab, a longtime ESPN producer and star of the ESPN trivia show Stump the Schwab, died today at 63, according to his family. No cause or location was given. Schwab began at ESPN in 1987 a...
The college basketball season may be over, but Caitlin Clark helped lead ESPN to one more audience record before going pro. The Iowa Hawkeyes superstar was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft on Mo...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/wnba-draft-2024-viewership-record-1235887765/
UPDATE: ESPN’s live coverage of the first and second rounds of the Masters Tournament on Thursday and Friday, April 11-12, attracted the largest two-day average viewership for the 3 p.m. ET tel...
NASCAR has hired John Dahl as its new SVP Content, bolstering the sanctioning body’s efforts to further connect with current and new fans across the globe over a range of content platforms. Dah...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/nascar-hires-ex-espn-exec-john-dahl-as-svp-content-1235882685/
Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions is staying in business with ESPN through 2034. The company has struck a long-term, multi-platform media rights extension for the next nine years. This covers ...
South Carolina defeated Iowa in front of a record-breaking national audience on Sunday. The NCAA Women’s Championship delivered 18.9M viewers across ABC and ESPN, which marks an 89% increase in...
ESPN EVP of Production Norby Williamson, who helped build SportsCenter into a signature franchise but recently had a public clash with Pat McAfee, is departing after nearly 40 years at the networ...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/espn-norby-williamson-leaving-espn-40-years-pat-mcafee-1235876712/
Once again, the Iowa Hawkeyes are leading ESPN to record audiences for women’s basketball. Last week’s Elite Eight matchup between the Hawkeyes and the LSU Tigers drew 12.3M viewers, making i...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/iowa-lsu-womens-college-basketball-viewership-elite-8-espn-1235874999/
Women’s basketball is heating up on ESPN. The network just scored its most-watched NCAA Women’s Sweet 16 on record with 2.4M viewers across all games. That’s up 96% year-over-year, per Niel...
https://deadline.com/2024/04/iowa-colorado-espn-most-watched-ncaa-womens-sweet-16-ever-1235873985/
Veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor John Anderson said today that he will retire from the show at the end of June. Anderson announced his decision on his podcast, Inside Wisconsin, which he co-hosts...
https://deadline.com/2024/03/espn-sportscenter-anchor-john-anderson-leaving-1235870439/