All Things Sports Media Thread!!

Who remembers the joe buck hbo show? Cancelled after one episode because his guest artie lange insulted him the whole time and it was a trainwreck and so awkward to watch.

Three episodes. Not that it actually matters. :lol:
 
This was a huge weekend in sports (Fury/Wilder, Alabama losing, baseball playoffs in full swing) and I'm sure all we will get on Undisputed tomorrow is Brady, Cowboys, Brady, Cowboys.

I'd be shocked if they talk about anything else. :lol:

Love Skip and Shannon but they never even touched the Joshua upset 2 weeks ago. I tune in daily but really wish they would diversify the rundown which is clearly influenced heavily by Skip. :smh:
 
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Sports media is in such flux right now.

And I love it simply bc too many people use the media for the wrong reasons.

Whole system needs an overhaul imo.
 
^ I'm with you there.

The biggest thing IMO is the blending of athlete and media member. There's clearly no line any longer, and Twitter also puts everyone on the same "plane." And there's no going back.

These ESPN dudes are now on commercials, they hawk products, they are their own companies now. The top ESPN faces are more famous than 95% of the athletes they cover, and front offices and agents kiss their feet. What a world we live in.


Report: Caesars Sportsbook is “preparing to go after” Adam Schefter
PFT

The rumors have percolated in industry circles for weeks. Wednesday’s developments may have caused the rumors to transmogrify into an official report.

Via Michael McCarthy and A.J. Perez of FrontOfficeSports.com, Caesaers Sportsbook “is preparing go after” ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Schefter’s contract expires in the summer of 2022. A buzz has been building among those in the NFL media business that Schefter plans to leave ESPN for one of the gambling companies. Surely, Caesers isn’t the only one thinking about trying to hire him.

The sports books are VERY aggressive about exploring opportunities to add individual reporters/analysts and/or entire media companies. A massive audience for sports content instantly becomes a captive audience for the purposes of converting members of that audience into gambling customers.

As more and more states legalize gambling, the competition for media personalities and/or media outlets will intensify.

Meanwhile, the article about Schefter also mentions that “cash-rich gambling companies could eventually try to pick off ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski.” That’s not an accident. The chatter has been that Schefter and Wojnarowski are considering joining a gambling company as part of a package deal.
 
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All these sports media folks can thank Skip for these lucrative opportunities they now have

^ I'm with you there.

The biggest thing IMO is the blending of athlete and media member. There's clearly no line any longer, and Twitter also puts everyone on the same "plane." And there's no going back.

These ESPN dudes are now on commercials, they hawk products, they are their own companies now. The top ESPN faces are more famous than 95% of the athletes they cover, and front offices and agents kiss their feet. What a world we live in.


Report: Caesars Sportsbook is “preparing to go after” Adam Schefter
PFT

The rumors have percolated in industry circles for weeks. Wednesday’s developments may have caused the rumors to transmogrify into an official report.

Via Michael McCarthy and A.J. Perez of FrontOfficeSports.com, Caesaers Sportsbook “is preparing go after” ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Schefter’s contract expires in the summer of 2022. A buzz has been building among those in the NFL media business that Schefter plans to leave ESPN for one of the gambling companies. Surely, Caesers isn’t the only one thinking about trying to hire him.

The sports books are VERY aggressive about exploring opportunities to add individual reporters/analysts and/or entire media companies. A massive audience for sports content instantly becomes a captive audience for the purposes of converting members of that audience into gambling customers.

As more and more states legalize gambling, the competition for media personalities and/or media outlets will intensify.

Meanwhile, the article about Schefter also mentions that “cash-rich gambling companies could eventually try to pick off ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski.” That’s not an accident. The chatter has been that Schefter and Wojnarowski are considering joining a gambling company as part of a package deal.
 
Where is Toni Collins?

Bae has been MIA on SportsCenter for a minute now.

Don't tell me she's one of these antivaxxers.
 
Saw katie nolan doesn't work for espn anymore. 98% chance she ends up working with Lebatard. Also saw some people hate toni collins now. Last month during a baseball highlight she said digger instead of dinger and people are saying they heard the n-word.
Where is Toni Collins?

Bae has been MIA on SportsCenter for a minute now.

Don't tell me she's one of these antivaxxers.
I read about that on awfulannouncing and maybe why she hasn't been on sportscenter.
 
Speaking of antivaxxers, alison williams is a college football sideline reporter for espn and couldn't go to work because she refused to get vaccinated. she left the company to work for some ben shapiro show.
 
^ I'm with you there.

The biggest thing IMO is the blending of athlete and media member. There's clearly no line any longer, and Twitter also puts everyone on the same "plane." And there's no going back.

These ESPN dudes are now on commercials, they hawk products, they are their own companies now. The top ESPN faces are more famous than 95% of the athletes they cover, and front offices and agents kiss their feet. What a world we live in.


Report: Caesars Sportsbook is “preparing to go after” Adam Schefter
PFT

The rumors have percolated in industry circles for weeks. Wednesday’s developments may have caused the rumors to transmogrify into an official report.

Via Michael McCarthy and A.J. Perez of FrontOfficeSports.com, Caesaers Sportsbook “is preparing go after” ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Schefter’s contract expires in the summer of 2022. A buzz has been building among those in the NFL media business that Schefter plans to leave ESPN for one of the gambling companies. Surely, Caesers isn’t the only one thinking about trying to hire him.

The sports books are VERY aggressive about exploring opportunities to add individual reporters/analysts and/or entire media companies. A massive audience for sports content instantly becomes a captive audience for the purposes of converting members of that audience into gambling customers.

As more and more states legalize gambling, the competition for media personalities and/or media outlets will intensify.

Meanwhile, the article about Schefter also mentions that “cash-rich gambling companies could eventually try to pick off ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski.” That’s not an accident. The chatter has been that Schefter and Wojnarowski are considering joining a gambling company as part of a package deal.

Great points.

It's worth pointing out that ESPN is just part of the Disney empire so that blend of announcers/advertising will likely get worse. Dressing up like Star Wars characters on May the 4th, Marvel themed NBA broadcasts like they experimented with earlier this year, commercials with Elle Duncan and Jay Harris for Marvel's What If, etc are just a few examples.

And as with everything in society, you're correct in that there is no going back. Smh

Schefter and Woj joining gambling companies for "insider knowledge" smells of all kinds of fishy to me.
 
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