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Atlanta Hawks reach over-the-air deal with Gray Media for local broadcasts
The Atlanta Hawks are going over-the-air. According to a report by Tom Friend in Sports Business Journal, the Hawks have formalized a local broadcast deal with Gray Media that will see the team’s games air on WANF-Channel 46 in Atlanta, and on the Peachtree Sports Network across the rest of the state. The Hawks become…
World Cup quarterfinals drew massive audiences even without United States and Mexico
Even with the United States and Mexico out of the World Cup, Fox and Telemundo continued to post record audiences for the quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The four quarterfinals averaged over 25 million viewers across Fox, Telemundo and Peacock according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. Games on Fox averaged 15.0 million viewers,…
Netflix earns smallest Home Run Derby audience since 2003
The first Home Run Derby on Netflix was also the least-watched in over 20 years. Monday’s Home Run Derby drew just 5.3 million viewers on Netflix, marking the least-watched edition of the event since 2003, when the Derby earned 5.2 million viewers on ESPN, according to Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. The audience for…
PTI podcast title implies LeBron James is joining Steph Curry and Warriors
If LeBron James ends up signing with the Golden State Warriors, you heard it from a Pardon The Interruption producer or intern first. When Wednesday’s podcast episode of PTI was released, it showed up on all major platforms with an interesting title that caught the attention of everyone waiting on the latest LeBron James announcement.…
Jon Lester admits ‘complete moron’ Anthony Rizzo ‘does a great job on TV’
Anthony Rizzo has been a star in his first year as a Major League Baseball analyst for NBC Sports and Netflix. He’s fit in seamlessly with the “Inside the Pitch” analyst role for Sunday Night Baseball on NBC, and he provided sharp and insightful commentary for Netflix during Monday night’s MLB Home Run Derby. Before…
Mike Tyson caught making wild Shohei Ohtani comment at ESPYS
Mike Tyson may have known where he was when he appeared at the 2026 ESPYS, but he didn’t appear to know who Shohei Ohtani is. Tyson teamed up with one of his greatest boxing rivals in Jake Paul, along with DJ Khaled to present the award for best single-game performance at the ESPYS Wednesday night.…
Paul Skenes, Jacob Misiorowski weigh in on broadcasters jinxing no-hitters
Do baseball broadcasters have the magical ability to jinx no-hit bids? It’s something that many fans blame announcers for after the words are said (or hinted at) during a broadcast and the pitcher proceeds to lose the no-hitter. New Philadelphia 76ers president Mike Gansey even delivered a video apology to Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jesús Luzardo…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup announcer rankings
Last month, we asked you, the readers, to grade the nine Fox Sports broadcast teams calling games at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Voters were asked to assign letter grades ranging from A through F to as many or as few teams as they’d like. Now, we’ve tabulated all of the votes and compiled the…
Chris Russo doesn’t plan on retiring anytime soon: ‘What am I gonna do?’
Chris Russo isn’t slowing down. The longtime SiriusXM and ESPN personality, who turns 67 in October, recently told The New York Post that retirement isn’t in his near-term plans, even as the question keeps coming up with age. “I will definitely do this for, I don’t want to say for the next 20 years, but…
Newsday sports section facing buyouts, travel cutbacks
Newsday is slated to be the latest New York metro newspaper to curtail its sports coverage. The Long Island-based tabloid owned by Patrick Dolan — the brother of Madison Square Garden Entertainment CEO James Dolan — announced a buyout program at an all-hands newsroom meeting on Wednesday amid plans to heavily cut back on travel…
AA Podcast: Linda Cohn on leaving ESPN, her next venture, Keith Olbermann, John Skipper, and more
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, Brandon interviews now former ESPN personality Linda Cohn. They discuss a wide range of topics including Cohn being ESPN’s longest-tenured SportsCenter anchor, working in Bristol vs. Los Angeles, being a woman in a male-dominated industry, “Master Batter,” Keith Olbermann, her lone suspension, and more. Here’s the…
Marcello Hernández roasts Bill Belichick, Tiger Woods, Shane Gillis in ESPYs monologue
Saturday Night Live cast member and comedian Marcello Hernández hosted the 2026 ESPY Awards at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City on Wednesday night. As part of his 10-minute monologue, Hernández had jokes about many topics in the sports world, including Bill Belichick and Tiger Woods. He also roasted Shane Gillis, who…
Sports media world reacts to Argentina’s thrilling win over England to reach World Cup final
Defending tournament champion Argentina scored two goals in the final minutes to stun England with a 2-1 comeback victory on Wednesday in the 2026 FIFA World Cup semifinals. Trailing 1-0, Enzo Fernández drilled an equalizer for Argentina in the 85th minute. “ENZO FERNÁNDEZZZZZZZZZ! ARGENTINA! THEY ALWAYS FIND A WAY! AND THEY’VE TIED THE GAME!” John…
Anaheim Ducks reportedly intend to leave Victory+ streaming platform
Victory+ picked a bad Wednesday to have a bad Wednesday. The Ducks are the second team to walk away from the streaming platform within hours, and the exit comes with two years still remaining on Anaheim’s contract. According to a report from Sports Business Journal’s Alex Silverman, the Ducks have notified Victory+ – who has…
Listen: Fox, Telemundo calls of Argentina’s comeback win over England
World Cup defending champion Argentina kept its back-to-back hopes alive with a rally to stun England 2-1 on Wednesday in the 2026 FIFA World Cup semifinals at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Trailing 1-0, Argentina scored in the 85th minute and again two minutes into stoppage time to steal the victory. Here, we’ll share the goals…
Dan Patrick says Netflix tried too hard with the Home Run Derby broadcast: ‘I didn’t need Will Ferrell’
Dan Patrick isn’t fully on board with the swings Netflix took to dress up Monday’s Home Run Derby. Discussing the broadcast on Tuesday’s episode of his eponymous show, Patrick said Netflix could stand to do a better job getting the word out about the star power it brought to the event, noting he had no…
Fox apparently wanted to finish Game 7 of 2016 World Series the next night in primetime
Game 7 of the 2016 World Series between Chicago and Cleveland remains one of the great sporting events in recent history, but it was almost split in two by executives at Fox Sports. Yes, that’s right. According to famed executive Theo Epstein, who built that Cubs team into a champion, during the infamous rain delay…
Alexi Lalas consoles Rebecca Lowe on-air after England’s crushing World Cup semifinal loss
The FIFA World Cup is a particularly emotional event for commentators to cover, as they have their own long-held national team affiliations to reckon with while covering the thrill of one of the world’s great sporting events. On Wednesday, it was Fox’s Rebecca Lowe’s turn to deal with the agony that can come in defeat.…
Red Seat Ventures CEO bashes Netflix podcast deals: ‘Going back to TV in all the ways that are bad’
The CEO of Fox-owned Red Seat Ventures, a podcast and digital video company that is home to sports hosts like Robert Griffin III and Craig Carton as well as top news commentators like Tucker Carlson, is pouring cold water on Netflix’s efforts to become a podcast distributor. In an interview this week on Vox’s Channels podcast,…
Adam Friedland says he’ll ‘definitely’ pursue more sports work after World Cup podcast success
Adam Friedland didn’t expect the World Cup to turn into a second job, but he’s not walking away from it now that it has. Friedland launched The Adam Friedland Show Presents: The Beautiful Pod with The Ringer’s Chris Ryan last month, a six-week miniseries built around the tournament that ran alongside the relaunch of his…
ESPN, SWAC reach media rights agreement through 2030-31
ESPN is staying in the SWAC business for the foreseeable future. The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and ESPN have agreed to a new media rights deal that will continue to carry the conference’s football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball events on ESPN platforms through the 2030-31 season. Additionally, a separate agreement has been struck to…
Chris Berman’s Home Run Derby schtick has never been more popular
As Major League Baseball fans clamor to hear Chris Berman call the Home Run Derby again, he remembers when they weren’t so fond of his schtick. Berman called the MLB Home Run Derby for more than three decades. And yet it’s taken the last 10 years of him being removed from the event for fans…
Brandon Walker ends ‘Unnecessary Roughness’ with Kaycee Smith, launching solo college football show
Brandon Walker and Kaycee Smith closed the book on Unnecessary Roughness this week, ending Barstool Sports’ longest-running college football podcast so Walker can launch a solo show under the same banner. The Brandon Walker College Football Show debuts Aug. 3 on the same YouTube channel and social accounts that housed Unnecessary Roughness, per Walker’s announcement.…
Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo calls out fans watching Home Run Derby: ‘Read a book’
Netflix’s presentation of the annual Home Run Derby received mixed reviews, with some good and some bad. But it’s safe to say that Chris “Mad Dog” Russo did not enjoy it, and he’s got some questions if you did. The biggest change from previous years was the decision to move away from the timer format…
Buster Olney: MLB All-Star Game in a ‘fragile state’
Long considered the best All-Star game in professional sports, Major League Baseball’s midsummer classic has lost its juice. The 2026 MLB All-Star Game saw the American League shutout the National League in what was a mundane 4-0 win. And according to ESPN’s Buster Olney, the future of MLB’s midsummer classic is now facing some serious…
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