ESPN Plans Week Filled With Madden NFL Ratings Coverage

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.

Drake has scored another major chart record in the U.S. after breaking a tie with Madonna for the most Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits.Popstar and Greece, the rapper’s new collaborations with DJ Khaled, debut at three and eight on the new countdown, giving Drake his 39th and 40th top 10s.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen it comes to sports broadcasts, NBCUniversal has a singular goal: The company wants to push even those advertisers who might not typically rush to football, hockey or Nascar to get into the game.The Comcast-owned company is about to make the rounds of media buyers and advertisers with a study of the attitudes of sports-deprived consumers in May – in the depths of the nation’s coronavirus shutdown – in the hopes of demonstrating how eager these people are to

Madonna and Missy Elliott are set to feature on a new Dua Lipa remix, out next month.The reworking of ‘Levitating’ comes from The Blessed Madonna (fka The Black Madonna) and will feature the DJ’s namesake in a scenario Dua calls a “dream come true”.The news comes after Lipa’s manager recently revealed her team were trying to arrange a collaboration with Madonna.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN has over the years run all kinds of content: hard-news hours, documentaries, even a quiz show. Now it’s going to try animation.The AT&T-owned cable-news outlet will on Tuesday launch a new promotional campaign for some of its biggest pieces of coverage of the 2020 election.

Dua Lipa has announced Levitating as the fifth single from her Number 1 album Future Nostalgia, and its new remix will feature Madonna and Missy Elliott.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s star is on the rise, but he’s staying true to his roots.

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

Candyman actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has revealed he was asked to change his name when he began his career in Hollywood.The US star, who is also due to appear in The Matrix 4 and Netflix‘s The Trial of the Chicago 7, spoke in a new interview about representing Muslim people and staying authentic.Abdul-Mateen II recalled to GQ Middle East that he was asked early on in his career to change his name to Yahya Mateen, or just Yahya on its own, though was adamant he would never consider the option.“My

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

 Cameron Diaz  is basking in motherhood. The There’s Something About Mary actress gushed over her daughter Raddix during a new interview with The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon.

Electronic Arts has announced that it will be removing all references to the Washington Redskins’ name and logo from the upcoming Madden NFL 21.The news follows the Redskins’ announcement last week that it would be changing its name and logo, which are deemed offensive to Native Americans.

health questionnaire and undergo a temperature check. If they passed, museum representatives provided them with a sticker to wear that read: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

Electronic Arts is making an update to its upcoming Madden NFL 21 game following the Washington, D.C. NFL team deciding earlier this week to change its name that has been denounced by Native American groups as an ethnic slur.