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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorKeyshawn Johnson, Jay Williams and Zubin Mehenti have a big radio debut on Monday, when they take over ESPN’s national morning slot. But their new jobs started in earnest on Wednesday.The trio met in their studio at ESPN’s New York production facility for the first time, ready to test out their rapport.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAs a kid obsessed with not just television, but also the business of television, I was enamored with “SCTV Network” from the first time I saw it. Not only was it wickedly sharp — even to an 8-year-old — but its depiction of a faux television network, and the eccentric characters who ran it — stuck with me.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corp. is joining the parade of big U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNick Khan, a behind-the-scenes power in the world of sports representation, is moving to professional-wrestling powerhouse WWE, where he will take on the role of president and chief revenue officer.Khan replaces George Barrios and Michelle Wilson, two longtime senior WWE executives who left Vince McMahon’s entrepreneurial professional-wrestling operation abruptly in a shake-up of management in January.More to come…

Before the world fell in love with the Song-Song couple who eventually got married in 2017 and divorced in 2019, Song Hye-kyo was in a serious relationship with Hyun Bin. The pair worked together in the 2008 K-drama Worlds Within where immediate sparks flew between the two and led to them dating for two years, from 2009 to 2011.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBasketball fans can’t sit courtside these days, but they might just get the ultimate view of NBA action when ESPN opens its coverage of the league’s season this evening.Fans who use the ESPN App will be able to access full games with a “rail-cam” view, which lets the streaming audience see the action through a camera lens placed on a mobile table.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf you missed the regular Opening Day from Major League Baseball due to the coronavirus pandemic, well, someone feels your pain.Comcast Corp. intends to refund the programming fees its subscribers paid for regional sports networks in the second quarter, the Philadelphia cable giant said Wednesday.

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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.

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

In December 2018, Mayor Robert Garcia snubbed a World AIDS Day event in Long Beach to appear in the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade. Garcia’s absence at the event was another example of him ignoring the city’s HIV problem and how it has impacted the gay community. Photo: Twitter.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Sports has laid off between 50 and 100 staffers, according to a person familiar with the matter, part of a bid to realign the Fox Corp. unit after it shed its regional-sports networks as part of the company’s massive asset sale to Walt Disney Co.

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

Hilary Duff has been spending some of her time while quarantined amid the coronavirus pandemic honing her culinary skills and, by the looks of it, she’s getting pretty darn good — just ask her husband, Matthew Koma.On Tuesday, July 21, the musician, 33, headed into the recording studio to get some work done, but he didn’t show up empty-handed.

AC/DC have shared a rare performance video of ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ from their 1981 ‘Back In Black’ tour – check it out below.The iconic rock group are currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of their seventh album ‘Back In Black’, which was released on July 25, 1980.To mark the milestone, the band have been posting previously unseen live clips to their official YouTube channel, with a video of ‘What Do You Do For Money Honey’ arriving on the platform last week.Continuing the series,

Gimlet Media is launching a podcast about climate change. How to Save a Planet is the latest project from the Spotify-owned studio's co-founder and managing director, Alex Blumberg.

according to pal, Keith Duffy, Shane and Sheena are now ‘very happy.’Here’s a look back at their love story.Shane struggled with dyslexia growing up, telling Ray D’Arcy that his diagnosis ‘pushed him into music’ and he wrote in his autobiography The Chancer that he felt ‘written off’ as a problem child in school but used his charm to get ahead.And that charm eventually secured him a place in Boyzone and worldwide fame.By 2000 his two-year marriage to Eternal’s Easther Bennett had crumbled and he