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The College Football Playoff semifinals on ESPN on New Year’s Day that sent Alabama and Ohio State to the national championship drew an average of 19 million total viewers between them, ESPN said Tuesday, in line with last year’s numbers. Across all ESPN platforms, the CFP Semifinals reached 40.8 million viewers…

To paraphrase President Nixon: ESPN won’t have Dan Le Batard to kick around anymore. The veteran host signed off for good today after doing his TV show Highly Questionable since September 2011. It came a month after the call-’em-like-he-sees-’em host, who also had fronted an eponymous ESPN Radio show, and the company p…

ESPN has expanded its first “MegaCast” of Sunday’s NFL Wild Card playoff game to include streaming service ESPN+ and five Disney networks: ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, Freeform and ESPN Deportes. The Baltimore Ravens-Tennessee Titans matchup will also include a halftime performance by DJ Khaled airing exclusively on Freeform…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some very good TV series that aired in 2020. There is no other way to say it: 2020 has been a horrible year full of great television. As you can see in the video above, the first part of Deadline's Top 10 New TV Shows of the year has a different tone from the past. Going…

Kirk Herbstreit revealed via Twitter on Tuesday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. As a result, the ESPN analyst will be working from home on New Year's Day, taking part in the network’s College GameDay and the its telecast of Sugar Bowl between No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Ohio State. This is the second time…

ESPN has reached a 10-year deal with the Southeastern Conference, a major college football power and a linchpin of its linear ratings and streaming ambitions. The Disney sports division has a decades-old relationship with the conference. Games will continue to air on ESPN and its portfolio of networks, but will also…

Peyton Manning football docuseries Peyton's Places is getting a third season at ESPN+ as the Disney-owned company looks to expand the franchise. The show, which is in the middle of its second season on the digital service, will return for a third run, according to Manning, who spoke during Disney's investor event…

One of the programs that launched Disney+ was a Lady and the Tramp reboot, and The Walt Disney Studio original movies have been a key element of the streaming platform’ original programming strategy. Now Disney is building a similar pipeline between its other two movie studios, 20th Century and Searchlight, and…

The purge at ESPN continues, as longtime show host Dan Le Batard will leave the network in January. The announcement of his departure said Le Batard “will be leaving ESPN early next year to pursue a new opportunity.” His ESPN radio show, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, will end Jan. 4. His hosting of the TV show H…

Sportscaster and author Paul Finebaum has signed with ICM Partners in all areas. Known as the 'Voice of the SEC' and the leading sports authority in the South, Finebaum joined ESPN in August 2013 as host of his own show. The four-hour daily program is heard on ESPN Radio Monday – Friday from 3 – 7 p.m. ET and…

ESPN has begun a marketing campaign with the tagline “one app, one tap” as a way to plug its centralized digital destination. The blitz, which features TV spots and digital pieces with emerging rapper Chika, kicked off Sunday night during the American Music Awards telecast on ABC. Disney-owned ESPN is touting its app…

EXCLUSIVE: Libby Geist, one of the architects of ESPN's growing documentary business and exec producer of The Last Dance and O.J: Made In America, is leaving the Disney-owned sports network. Deadline understands that Geist, who is Vice President and Executive Producer, ESPN Films and Original Content, will work…