by admin | Apr 12, 2024 | Representation, SEW
For the first time in its 42-year history, more people watched the women’s NCAA basketball final than the men’s. The total number of viewers for Sunday’s women’s national championship gamebetween South Carolina and Iowa was 18.9 million, peaking at 24.1 million in the...
by admin | Mar 18, 2024 | Representation, SEW
ESPN have announced that Krieger will return to work with the channel as a studio analyst ahead of the start of the new NWSL season at the weekend. The former USWNT defender is fresh from covering the W Gold Cup with CBS Sports, where she ended up becoming embroiled...
by admin | Jan 22, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Aly Raisman is joining ESPN! The three-time Olympic gold medalist is set to join the network as an analyst on its NCAA gymnastics broadcasts, PEOPLE has exclusively learned. ESPN will make an official announcement on Thursday afternoon. Raisman, 29, will make her...
by admin | Nov 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW
In the biggest broadcast deal ever for any women’s sports league, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) struck a record-breaking four-year TV rights deal with CBS Sports, ESPN, Prime Video and Scripps Sports. The partners will combine to nationally broadcast 118...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Brittney Griner’s return to the WNBA with the Phoenix Mercury will be the first of 25 regular-season broadcasts on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 this season, it was announced Wednesday. The networks will also air playoff games, and the WNBA All-Star Game will make its ABC...
by admin | Nov 3, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
ESPN has hired Becky Hammon as a studio analyst for its NBA coverage, the latest stop in an extraordinary career for the former player and current coach. Hammon serves as head coach of the WNBA’s Aces. She recently guided Las Vegas to its first league championship in...
by admin | Sep 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Thanks to Serena Williams, Frances Tiafoe, Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff, the 2022 U.S. Open on ESPN averaged 1.21 million viewers over the two weeks, up 50% from last year and the third-best for ESPN, the network announced. The audience was boosted during the first...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Last year, Michelle Beadle claimed that LeBron James wanted her fired from ESPN, dating back years. Beadle hosted SportsNation on the network with Colin Cowherd for three years from 2009 to ’12, and she returned as the host of NBA Live a few years later. While...
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The elevator ride to Chiney Ogwumike’s Century City penthouse began in silence and ended with the steady thump of Afrobeats. It was a random Tuesday afternoon, but Ogwumike was moving and talking faster than the music, whirling around a condominium that is a monument...
by admin | Mar 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
ESPN is launching Fantasy Women’s Basketball ahead of the 2022 WNBA season, Axios has learned. Why it matters: It’s the first season-long, full-scale fantasy game dedicated to a major women’s sports league. The game will be available in early April...
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