Four months after landing a mega-deal at HBO, Bill Simmons has launched a production company and tapped Eric Weinberger to serve as president. HBO announced Monday...
Say what you will about ESPN president John Skipper, but the guy knows how to come clean. Ever since ESPN announced the immediate shutdown of its...
In August, FX Networks CEO John Landgraf spoke at the Television Critics Association summer tour about the state of the television industry. Landgraf said “I long ago lost the...
For the first time since Grantland was shuttered last Friday, the site’s founder and former editor-in-chief, Bill Simmons, talked extensively about its folding in an episode...
There’s no sphere of television more depressingly homogenous than sports broadcasting, not only in demographics, but also in formatting. Ninety percent of the content on channels...
This week will tell the story about whether Big Media’s summer swoon in stock prices was a temporary blip or the beginning of a long-term secular...
ESPN has been roundly criticized for shutting down the sports and pop-culture website Grantland, which launched in 2011. The latest comes from sports journalist Robert Lipsyte,...
ESPN chose a Friday afternoon to pull the plug on Grantland, an esoteric offshoot site created for former ESPN personality Bill Simmons that mixed high-minded sports...
The network said the site was “suspended” effective immediately, and a senior ESPN source confirmed that there are no plans to bring it back. “After careful...
ESPN president John Skipper did a featured one-on-one interview to kick off the 17th annual NeuLion Sports Media & Technology Conference in New York Wednesday, and...