by Joe Lucia | May 19, 2020 | Sports Media
Earlier this month, the report that football fans across the country were waiting for came down – ESPN would be moving on from its much-maligned Monday Night Football booth of Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland. That report also indicated that ESPN would look to...
by Joe Lucia | Apr 20, 2020 | Sports Media
It’s been more than five weeks since we have been able to watch a live sports game in America. Over those five weeks, we’ve seen sports media companies take shows off the air, furlough employees, lay off workers, and change their strategies. But as the shutdown of...
by Joe Lucia | Mar 17, 2020 | Sports Media
It’s been nearly a week since the NBA shut their season down, with MLB, MLS, and NHL following suit. Three of those four sports were playing regular season games (with the MLS season still in its early days), and MLB was approaching the end of Spring Training and the...
by Joe Lucia | Feb 24, 2020 | Sports Media
The start of the 2020 season marks the 15th anniversary of the Nationals’ move to Washington DC from Montreal. It also marks the 15th anniversary of a launch that has been fraught with many more issues than the return of pro baseball to the nation’s capital – the...
by Joe Lucia | Jan 23, 2020 | Sports Media
Companies like Spotify, Apple, and Stitcher (among others) are in a strange position regarding podcasts. These companies bring podcasts, created by other companies, to listeners, and receive little credit. If your podcast provider of choice shuts down, you’re not...
by Joe Lucia | Dec 11, 2019 | Sports Media
On sports networks, the main draw is (duh) the live games. That’s the appointment viewing, and that’s the reason we all tune in. But there are only so many live games on a schedule, and so many hours in the day, so networks need to fill their schedules in other ways....
