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At this point, it feels like either ESPN heavyweights Pat McAfee (The Pat McAfee Show) and Stephen A Smith (ESPN's First Take) have a growing beef with one another or some executive folks over at ESPN want there to be a growing beef between McAfee and Smith Earlier today, The New York Post's Ryan Glasspiegel[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Babylon 5, ABC's The Rookie, TBS' AEW Dynamite, ESPN, Lucasfilm's The Mandalorian & Grogu, Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, TNA/Scott D'Amore, Disney+'s Moana 2, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Peacock's Community: The Movie, Max's Peacemaker, Paramount+'s Landman, ITV's Payback, Smallville/Michael Rosenbaum, Max's Tokyo Vice & more! Images/Screencaps: Netflix, WBTV, ESPN, Max, Netflix, ABC, Lucasfilm BCTV[...]

Discovery were teaming up for a joint streaming sports venture – but along with that, we also learned when ESPN would break off its own official stand-alone streaming service and a very familiar name joining College GameDay. Image: Disney; ESPN; YouTube Screencap Disney, FOX & Warner Bros Discovery Go Sports: Set to launch this fall, the new[...]

But if you're one of those NFL fans who forgot that pro football is more about money-making entertainment than the actual sport itself, then you're going to have to not only take issue with me but also with Pat McAfee and ESPN's The Pat McAfee Show Earlier today, McAfee had Kelce on to discuss the[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? ESPN/NFL, NBC's Night Court, Lucifer/Tom Ellis, AEW/WWE, MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Green Day/Trump, NBC's "Law & Order" Universe, HBO's House of the Dragon, CBS' Young Sheldon Spinoff, Jesse Watters/Taylor Swift, Netflix's The Witcher, Prime Video's Wytches, Adult Swim's Eric Andre Live Near Broadway, Netflix's Stranger[...]

Though a potential deal would still need some time to be finalized, and both parties involved have declined to comment, reports are that the NFL and Disney-owned ESPN could be getting a lot more "warm & fuzzy" with one another in the near future The New York Post's Andrew Marchand reports that the NFL &[...]

A day after Pat McAfee shared that Aaron Rodgers was done with the show for the season - guess who showed up on his show earlier today?

Following that, McAfee himself got into it on-air with certain ESPN executives who he claimed were attempting to "sabotage" his show – naming executive Norby Williamson specifically in his rant Now, ESPN's First Take & The Stephen A Smith Show host & author Stephen A Smith is offering his thoughts on the matter. Though he spends[...]

From the fallout from NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers regarding ABC's late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to his own on-air war with some ESPN brass, The Pat McAfee Show didn't exactly start off 2024 on the greatest of notes. Earlier today, Pat McAfee announced that Rodgers was done for the season – no post-season appearances, though earlier rumblings were[...]

It turns out that the end of Aaron Rodgers' NFL season as a weekly guest on The Pat McAfee was this week – with the NY Jets QB going out in a huff of Jimmy Kimmel excuses, more wacky COVID conspiracy, some shade thrown at an ESPN executive, and a lot of "But wait! I'm[...]

On today's The Pat McAfee Show, Aaron Rodgers responded to Jimmy Kimmel's late-night comments, saying that he's "all for moving forward."

Jimmy Kimmel offered a brutal response to Aaron Rodgers' Jeffrey Epstein comments, adding that he doesn't expect Rodgers to apologize.

Those will include Fantasia performing the National Anthem, and at the Allstate Championship Tailgate, which is a free event in the parking lots, Walker Hayes and Alli Walker will perform live, with ESPN live broadcasts and performances by the two teams marching bands throughout the day. Credit ESPN/NCAA How To Watch The College Football Playoff National Championship Game Basically, you[...]

So here's what happened, On his Friday show, The Pat McAfee Show host Pat McAfee accused an ESPN executive who's been with the company for forty years of "attempting to sabotage" his show The focus of McAfee's rant? Norby Williamson, ESPN Executive Editor and Head of Event & Studio Production, who McAfee claimed had been fast[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Max's Waller, Disney+'s Echo, Prime Video's Batman: Caped Crusader, Star Trek/Patrick Stewart, Netflix's Cobra Kai, WWE/AEW, CBS's Ghosts, ESPN/Pat McAfee, ABC's The Rookie, The Boys/Jonathan Majors, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, FX's Welcome to Wrexham, Crunchyroll's Attack on Titan, BBC's Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: Max, CBS, ABC, Netflix, Disney+, Paramount, ESPN, The Pat McAfee Show, Prime Video BCTV Daily[...]

ESPN has released a statement in response to comments made by Pat McAfee during the Friday edition of the Pat McAfee Show, where he accused an ESPN executive who's been with the company for forty years of "attempting to sabotage" his show The focus of McAfee's rant? Norby Williamson, ESPN Executive Editor and Head of Event[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Amazon's Wytches, The CW's Superman & Lois, Pat McAfee/ESPN, Peacock's Battlestar Galactica, BBC's Doctor Who, MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race, CBS's NCIS: Origins, TNT's AEW Rampage, HBO's Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, HBO's The White Lotus, FOX's WWE SmackDown, Hulu's The Orville, Netflix's Arcane, James Gunn/Harley Quinn, Max's Lanterns, Max's Arkham, Max's Peacemaker, DC Studios'[...]

Speaking of popping bottles, that's exactly what was going on last year when Pat McAfee signed a multi-year deal with "The Mouse" that brought his show to ESPN, ESPN+, and a lot of other platforms for some major media exposure – and he got to keep his ESPN College GameDay gig A whole lot of[...]

The Disney-owned networks will simulcast the games on both platforms: the content-starved ABC on broadcast and ESPN on cable The simulcast is nothing new, as Disney has been doing the same on both networks with a select few games since the 2020 season Games added for the 2023 season include the Seattle Seahawks at New[...]

Earlier today, we learned that Disney and Charter had reportedly agreed to play nice with one another by cementing a new deal that would bring ESPN (and other Disney channels) back to Spectrum customers – just in time for ESPN's Monday Night Football The standoff between the mega cable provider and The Mouse got particularly ugly[...]

Was it the power of ESPN's Monday Night Football that compelled them? We may never know for sure, but the good news we have to pass along is that media giants Disney and Charter have reportedly agreed to play nice with one another – cementing that promise with a new deal What does that mean?[...]

Shannon Sharpe is joining THE debate show on ESPN First Take will star the NFL Hall of Famer on Mondays and Tuesdays to debate Stephen A Smith on all the previous weekend's football stories This is after Sharpe left the other big debate show he was a part of, FS1's Undisputed, where he argued with[...]

ESPN has been going through it as of late, and after letting go of Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, they have announced that Doc Rivers and longtime basketball coverage stalwart Doris Burke will join 19-year veteran Mike Breen on the play-by-play desk for the NBA Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, NBA playoffs, and the Christmas[...]

Just before July 1st hit, the news came down that approximately 20 ESPN on-air personalities were being cut as part of The Walt Disney Company's across-the-board series of layoffs & budget cuts as the company works towards $5.5B in overall cost savings The list of those who were let go included David Pollack, Jalen Rose, Jordan[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Twitter's Linda Yaccarino & Elon Musk, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman, Amazon's The Boys, Netflix's Sonic Prime, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, ESPN/Stephen A Smith, Nathan's Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest, Amazon's Sausage Party, Michael Imperioli, FX's Justified: City Primeval, WWE/Damian[...]

Heading into this past weekend, the news came down that approximately 20 ESPN on-air personalities were being cut as part of The Walt Disney Company's across-the-board series of layoffs & budget cuts as the company works towards $5.5B in overall cost savings David Pollack, Jalen Rose, Jordan Cornette, Suzy Kolber, Max Kellerman, Jeff Van Gundy,[...]

Late last week, the news broke that approximately 20 ESPN on-air personalities were being cut as part of The Walt Disney Company's across-the-board series of layoffs & budget cuts as The Mouse worked towards $5.5B in overall cost savings. David Pollack, Jalen Rose, Jordan Cornette, Suzy Kolber, Max Kellerman, Jeff Van Gundy, Keyshawn Johnson, Matt Hasselbeck,[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP, FX's Justified: City Primeval, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, AEW, The CW's Nancy Drew, Max's Dune: The Sisterhood, ESPN, Amazon's The Bondsman, Geraldo Rivera/FOX "News," Crunchyroll's Jujutsu Kaisen, CBS's Matlock, Amazon's Good Omens[...]

Since that time, waves of layoffs were announced – and earlier today, that wave impacted approximately 20 on-air personalities (at the time of this writing) at ESPN, with reports updating throughout the day (and more layoffs expected in the near future). NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 5, 2017: ESPN microphone ready for interview during US Open 2017[...]

At Disney's Upfronts presentation for advertisers, it was announced that McAfee had signed a new multi-year agreement with " The Mouse" that will see his multiplatform presence at ESPN expand in new ways Along with The Pat McAfee Show moving to ESPN in the fall, McAfee will also contribute to ESPN's digital and social platforms[...]