Saturday’s preseason game against the Green Bay Packers was not the first in which the San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick remained seated during the performance of “The Star Spangled Banner.”…
Disney is a conglomerate known for throwing big bucks at content powerhouses like Marvel and Lucasfilm, so its $1 billion investment in Major League Baseball's BAMTech video unit last week was…
John Saunders, the veteran ESPN broadcaster of more than 30 years, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. He was 61. Saunders’ wife called 911 after finding the ESPN…
Disney is paying $1 billion for a 33% stake in Major League Baseball’s BAMTech streaming-media unit, and with the investment ESPN is planning to launch a new “multi-sport” subscription streaming…
Journalist Hannah Storm is no stranger to the Olympics — Rio marks her fifth time on the frontline. But this year brings a host of different concerns, including heightened safety measures and a…
ESPN has appointed five executives to lead its programming and production team. The executives tapped Monday by ESPN president John Skipper are Stephanie Druley, senior vice president, event and…
Erin Andrews will drop her coverage of Major League Baseball games and focus exclusively on National Football League events, under a new contract she has struck with Fox Sports. A spokesman for the…
Seth Meyers will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image; the Television Academy has announced the Founding Sponsors of its New Destination Campaign; and more in Tuesday’s TV News Roundup…
Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger said he’s “very enthusiastic” about Hulu’s plans to launch a bundle of live TV networks in 2017 — in part because such online services give the Mouse House leverage…
Disney and Verizon have reached a settlement in the lawsuit related to channel bundling that Disney filed against the telco giant last year. Last April, Disney claimed that Verizon’s effort to…
Sean McDonough will be the new play-by-play announcer on “Monday Night Football,” ESPN announced Monday. McDonough takes over Mike Tirico, who is leaving ESPN for NBC Sports. Aside from McDonough’s…
