ESPN 30 for 30 Podcast 'Heavy Medals' Explores Complicated Legacy of the Karolyis

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBasketball fans can’t sit courtside these days, but they might just get the ultimate view of NBA action when ESPN opens its coverage of the league’s season this evening.Fans who use the ESPN App will be able to access full games with a “rail-cam” view, which lets the streaming audience see the action through a camera lens placed on a mobile table.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Epix comedy documentary series Unprotected Sets is moving from television to podcasting with a 12-episode audio series.MGM and Audio Up, the podcasting company that the studio invested in earlier this year, will launch the series on August 5.It is the latest MGM series to move into the podcast form after the company launched audio series based on its unscripted franchises including Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court and Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.The

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMichael Collins has been at ESPN for nearly a decade, but he’s still surprised he works there.“I never went to college. I failed high-school English,” recounts the ESPN golf analyst.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMike Greenberg must move fast as the host of ESPN’s “Get Up” each weekday morning. He’s hoping a new radio gig in the afternoons will give him the chance he needs to slow things down.“On the TV show, we are just flying through stuff.

Ja Rule wants to know why ESPN has it out for him.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe nation’s local news veterans are launching a bid to take on a few successful upstarts making a market in national sports.An alliance of local-media companies, the Local Media Consortium, will launch “The Matchup,“ a new online sports news effort that aims to give fans of specific teams more news about them from a wider range of outlets than just those covering it locally The group’s first effort will make more headlines about a team available to a reader, so

Mark Paul-Gosselaar has been a working actor for more than three decades, but there is no doubt that he is most known for his role as Zack Morris on the late 1980s and early 1990s NBC teen sitcom Saved By The Bell. Ahead of the show’s reboot on Peacock, Gosselaar revealed this week that he is launching a new podcast with Cadence13 titled Zack to the Future.

Will Thorne Staff WriterMajor League Baseball returned to our screens on Thursday night, and boy did fans miss it.ESPN’s coverage of the game between the New York Yankees and the defending World Series Champion Washington Nationals struck a huge home run, drawing the network’s largest ever audience for an opening night game.According to Nielsen fast nationals, an average audience of 4 million viewers tuned in for the rain shortened affair, which saw the Yankees emerge victorious by a score of

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN is moving deeper into the increasingly popular game of talking about big topics in smaller chunks of content.The Walt Disney-owned sports-media giant will today start rolling out “ESPN Stories,” a new series of quick-hit content compilations that its executives believe represent a new way of talking about sports to a generation of fans that love seeing not only great plays and highlights, commentator hot takes, stats and player interviews but humorous

TikTok star Addison Rae Easterling is launching a podcast. Mama Knows Best premieres July 20 from Spotify-owned studio Parcast.

“I told my story, it made history,” Drake boasts on “Crew Love,” one of the first tracks on his colossal sophomore album Take Care. It’s a pretty congruous flex.

Bruce Willis has strange taste in bathroom decor.

without an ESPN Radio show, but he’s not out of 2020 ESPN gigs yet — assuming COVID-19 cooperates. (Which, you know, would be a first.)On Monday’s “Golic & Wingo” show, Golic, who is under contract with ESPN for the remainder of the year, said that he approached management and asked to return to calling college football games for the company’s cable channel.

Also Read: Mike Golic Says ESPN Radio Exit 'Was Management's Choice'Featuring the likes of Ron Darling, Keith Hernandez, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter and Daryl Strawberry, the ’86 club stormed its way to 108 wins and the World Series, and then authored one of the most memorable comebacks in baseball history against the Boston Red Sox, punctuated by Mookie Wilson’s grounder that went through Bill Buckner’s legs.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN’s devotion to all things football is well known. But next week, it will cover a decidedly different version of that game.The Walt Disney-owned sports-media outlet intends to make exclusive reveals of the player ratings in Madden NFL 21, the latest title in EA Sports’ Madden NFL franchise.

Also Read: ESPN's Mike Greenberg on Landing His Dream Gig of Covering the Masters“Golic and Wingo” was canceled on Tuesday, though the show will run through the rest of July.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN said it would cancel its flagship morning radio program, “Golic & WIngo,” while bringing Mike Greenberg, half of the team that helped the Disney sports-media giant carve a bigger business in the audio world, back to the medium as part of a reworking of its national lineup.Greenberg, who spent 17 years with co-host Mike Golic on the morning radio program “Mike & Mike,” will keep his duties on the ESPN mid-morning TV program, “Get Up,” which he has helped

Also Read: Wrong Again, President Trump: NASCAR Races Are Not Getting Their 'Lowest Ratings EVER'This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held indoors with plexiglass partitions between the “athletes” and their gross work stations. Travel restrictions narrowed the field of competitors to only five men and five women.

From The Oasthouse – The Alan Partridge Podcast will feature 18 episodes, given Partridge fans a greater insight on the character never seen before, in what has been described as “fascinating conversations and richly sound-designed audio vignettes.”In character, Alan Partridge released a statement on what to expect from the Audible-exclusive podcast.“Like most people, I assumed those who hosted podcasts were pale, tech-obsessed social lepers who live with their mums and couldn’t get a platform

Colin Kaepernick is linking up with Disney for a brand new docuseries.