Disney Wraps Upfront Ad Sales as ESPN Lands Double-Digit Revenue Increases
ABC’s “The Fix,” “A Million Little Things” draw strong advertiser interest
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ESPYS Ratings Plummet 36 Percent, Doubles Last Year’s Decline
Sports award show already sunk 18 percent in 2017
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2018 ESPYS: 15 Things You Didn’t See on TV
The “sister survivors” spark tears, Chadwick Boseman shows off his trivia skills and LeBron James is on everyone’s mind at ESPN’s annual awards show
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WWE Superstars, US Women’s Ice Hockey Team Among ESPN Sports Humanitarian Awards Winners
Roman Reigns, Stephanie McMahon, Charlotte Flair, NBA veteran David Robinson and Laila Ali join honorees at the fourth annual event celebrating the positive impact of sports
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Wimbledon 2018: ‘Serena Williams Is Still the One to Beat,’ ESPN’s Cliff Drysdale Says
“As usual the men’s event is going to be a lot more predictable than the women’s,” tennis analyst and former U.S. Open doubles champion tells TheWrap
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ESPN Alum Ed Werder Accuses Sports Illustrated Writer of Sexism: ‘Men Need Not Apply?’
“Sorry for attempting to make sports media more than 10 percent female, my bad,” Sports Illustrated writer Charlotte Wilder shoots back
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Jim Kelly to Receive Jimmy V Perseverance Award at ESPYS
Former Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame QB has been battling oral cancer since 2013
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Rape Accusations Against Bikram Choudhury Examined in Dark ESPN ’30 for 30’ Podcast
“This was a quintessential #MeToo moment,” producer Julia Lowrie Henderson tells TheWrap of sexual assault accusations aimed at hot yoga guru
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Keith Olbermann Signs New Deal With ESPN
Longtime personality to host 20 editions of the 11 p.m. ET “SportsCenter”
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Danica Patrick to Be First Woman to Host ESPYs
ESPN’s annual awards show is July 18
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ESPN Becomes Sole TV Home to UFC in $1.5 Billion Mega-Deal
$300 million annually dwarfs Fox’s prior average payment of $116 million per year
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‘Fox & Friends’ Corrects Story Which Falsely Said ESPN’s Jemele Hill Was ‘Unemployed’
“Correction: Hill is currently employed by ESPN,” Fox News show tweets
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‘Fox & Friends’ Mocks ‘Unemployed’ Jemele Hill Over ESPN Reporter’s Journalism Award
“The bottom line is that she is unemployed from hosting her own TV show,” said “Fox & Friends” guest Lawrence Jones
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2018 ESPYS: Sexual Abuse Accusers to Receive Arthur Ashe Courage Award
Accusers who spoke out against former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State team doctor will be honored at ESPN’s awards on July 18
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ESPN Upfront: ‘SportsCenter’ Future and 3 More Takeaways From Network’s Presentation to Advertisers
Kenny Mayne puts it best: “I’m tired of doing this”
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Netflix, ESPN Films Team on 10-Part Michael Jordan Doc ‘The Last Dance’ (Video)
Series will be directed by Jason Hehir, who recently completed “Andre the Giant” for Bill Simmons and HBO
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ESPN’s Sage Steele and Kevin Negandhi Reunite to Co-Anchor ‘SportsCenter’ (Video)
The show will fill the 6 p.m. vacancy left by Jemele Hill and Michael Smith’s “SC6”
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Ex-ESPN Boss John Skipper Lands New Job
He will be new executive chairman of Perform Group
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ESPN’s New Streaming Service Lands Portion of UFC TV Rights for $150 Million Per Year
Disney-owned cable channel will also air some of MMA major league’s events — but plenty is left for another partner
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Twitter and Disney Sign Deal to Air Live ESPN Shows
Companies to announce specific live shows at their NewFront presentations later this week
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Dallas Cowboys’ Jason Witten to Retire From NFL, Join ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’
Tight end will provide analysis next to new play-by-play guy Joe Tessitore
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ESPN’s Bomani Jones Gives Us His Take on the Podcast Craze, Social Issues Invading Sports
It isn’t “effective to ramrod politics into sports discussion because it doesn’t do you any good to talk if there ain’t nobody listening,” Jones tells TheWrap
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Fox, ESPN in Talks With UFC to Split Pricey TV Rights
Endeavor-owned fight club mulls multi-network deal that could be worth nearly $400 million
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Coolest Things About ESPN+ Streaming Service, From ’30 for 30’ Film Library to Live Sports Events
“This is our first inning and we are going to be adding more content on a regular basis,” network president James Pitaro says of direct-to-consumer subscription service and new ESPN app
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ESPN Lets Viewers Binge Watch ‘We the Fans’ Season 2 by Stacking Episodes Back-to-Back
“We’re trying a lot of different ways to get our content out to consumers on different platforms,” Libby Geist, vice president and executive producer of ESPN Films and Original Content, tells TheWrap
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ESPN’s Sage Steele Says Tiger Woods’ Return to the Masters Proves ‘He Came Back Different’
“There are so many life lessons that can be learned from him already, even if he doesn’t make the cut,” the “SportsCenter” anchor says as Woods chases a fifth green jacket
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ESPN’s Mike Greenberg Tells Us Why His New Show ‘Get Up!’ Has the Right Chemistry
“The four of us are a good bet,” Greenberg tells TheWrap of co-hosting morning show with Jalen Rose, Michelle Beadle and executive producer Bill Wolff
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TI Calls Netflix Docuseries ‘Rapture’ the ’30 for 30’ of Hip Hop
Mass Appeal co-production’s “micro look” into music culture similar to ESPN film series, singer tells TheWrap
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Watch New WWE Star Ronda Rousey in Epically Awkward ESPN Interview (Video)
Former UFC champ becomes visibly annoyed when she misunderstands Mike Golic’s question
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Indy 500 to Zip Over to NBC After 54 Years on ABC
Races will begin in 2019
