ESPN Radio Reshuffle: ‘Golic & Wingo’ Out, Mike Greenberg Makes Return

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

Karen shot to infamy when she posted a video of her confronting Bunnings staff over wearing a face mask. Following the video, she posted on Facebook that she had been denied service because she was not wearing a mask.

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

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAfter flirting with fight fans in a series of teases and workout videos, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is set to make his highly anticipated return to the ring.

Riyadh Khalaf could hardly sleep before appearing on 'Celebrity MasterChef'. The YouTuber has admitted to being overcome by nerves before going on the BBC show, meaning he was only able to get two hours of sleep prior to taking on his first challenge.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNotorious boxer Mike Tyson, at 54 years of age, is stepping back into the ring after more than 15 years, with an exhibition bout set for September.The eight-round match, pitting Tyson against 51-year-old boxing champ Roy Jones Jr., will take place on Sept. 12, 2020, starting at 9 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf NBC and Lorne Michaels have their way, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this fall could move from being produced from cast members’ homes to being made the old-fashioned way – “from New York.”Michaels and his team are making plans to bring the show back to NBC’s Manhattan studios for the venerable late-night program’s 46th season, according to two people familiar with the matter – the latest of TV’s wee-hours programs to try and navigate a new normal in the midst

Universal Music Group is making voting easier for its U.S. employees by making Election Day 2020, Nov. 3, a paid company holiday. The company announced the news to staffers in an internal memo Friday (July 17) and obtained by Billboard.  “After all, the right to vote is the very foundation of democracy -- perhaps of freedom itself,” read

the ongoing pandemic ultimately canceled.

James Roday Rodriguez! For the first 21 years of his career, the Psych star went by his first name and a made-up last name.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC for seven years offered advertisers a novel proposition: Pay us money to put your products in our show and let the  series’ writers make fun of them.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorHulu is thinking big by trying to get some of the smallest video advertisers to start buying commercials.The Disney-controlled streaming-video hub has long worked with Madison Avenue giants like Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble, but on Wednesday unveiled a concerted effort to get marketers with less heft to start considering Hulu as a choice as well.Advertisers willing to spend at least $500 will be able to utilize a new self-service product, Hulu Ad Manager, that

Eli Countryman editorJames Roday Rodriguez went by “James Roday” for over 20 years, electing to forego the use of his last name professionally.But he said the process of reconnecting with his Mexican American heritage prompted him to add his last name to all future credits, starting with Wednesday’s premiere of “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home” on Peacock.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon moved to take NBC’s “Tonight Show” from “at home” to “at large” by bringing the venerable program back to NBC’s New York studios after weeks of broadcasting the show from his house.“Normalcy, any type of normalcy feels great,” Fallon told viewers during Monday’s “Tonight” broadcast, dressed in casual clothes, with cameramen wearing facial masks and members of the show’s in-house Roots band scattered around the studio for proper social distancing.

Trina McGee and Danielle Fishel, co-stars on the sitcom "Boy Meets World," have taken positive steps forward in their relationship after McGee recently called their former work environment hostile.

Jason Derulo is the undisputed celebrity king of Tik Tok. Clearly, he boasts a huge 22 million followers so many people are enjoying his clips while some feel that they’re corny; however, a recent interview is making the haters rethink their opinion.

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.