With sports gambling becoming increasingly legal and common across the country, ESPN is moving to serve the demand with Daily Wager, a new one-hour news and information show about sports betting.

Starting March 11, the show will air Monday through Friday on ESPNews at 6 PM ET and stream…

ESPN said the final episode of its long-running afternoon show SportsNation will air August 24, part of a revamp of the sports network’s afternoon lineup that includes adding a live edition of SportsCenter and shifting High Noon to a half-hour format. The full new schedule will debut September 11.

"SportsNation has…

At its first appearance at the decade-old Digital Content NewFronts in New York, ESPN announced a new daily edition of SportsCenter for its mobile app, as well as a series of shows developed through parent Disney’s sweeping new agreement with Twitter.

But at the same time, it noted that it didn’t need to trumpet any ra…

Michael Smith is headed to the ESPN SportsCenter sidelines. His last show will be tonight as he follows his former SC co-anchor and His and Hers podcast partner Jemele Hill out the door of the flagship highlights show.

Sports Illustrated first reported that Smith will leave the 6 PM ET gig, an unsurprising exit in the…

UPDATED with more details: Jemele Hill is departing as co-anchor of the 6 PM hour of ESPN’s SportsCenter, but she will remain with the Disney-owned network where she is currently under a multi-year deal, Deadline has learned.

Next month, Hill will join the staff of ESPN vertical The Undefeated as chief correspondent an…

A reimagining of ESPN’s popular SportsCenter is heading to Snapchat.

The new short form show, the platform’s first daily sports show, debuts today at 5 PM and will begin its regular schedule tomorrow with new shows available twice a day at 5 AM and 5 PM on weekdays, and once at 5 AM on weekends. SportsCenter on Snapcha…

ESPN’s calling an audible on SportsCenter, its flagship newscast that’s fighting to hang on to viewers who increasingly turn to mobile devices for the latest scores and video highlights.

Disney’s sports channel is focusing its TV schedule around personalities including Steve Levy, Kenny Mayne, John Anderson, John…

It’s been five months since First Take co-host Skip Bayless left ESPN, and now the Worldwide Leader is hoping to boost the show’s sagging vierwership by moving it from ESPN2 to the Mothership. The yell-fest hosted by Stephen A. Smith and Bayless’ replacement Max Kellerman and Molly Qerim will replace the stalwart…

UPDATED, 2:10 PM: Michael Smith and Jemele Hill, who have led ESPN 2’s weekday discussion program His & Hers for the past two years, have been tapped as co-anchor’s on the mothership’s 6 PM ET edition on SportsCenter. Both have signed new multiyear deal with the sports giant. They’ll continue on His & Hers until…

After back-to-back days of losing top on-air talent, ESPN has a new anchor for its signature program. Elle Duncan, who is familiar to New England sports fans as an anchor-reporter for NESN in Boston, is joining the Worldwide Leader as a SportsCenter anchor.

Duncan has been an anchor, host and reporter for the regional …

One of the Worldwide Leader’s most popular and polarizing personalities is staying put. Stephen A. Smith, who joined ESPN in 2003 as an NBA analyst and reporter, has re-upped with the sports network in a multi-year deal.

A featured commentator on ESPN2’s daily debate program First Take, Smith will continue to appear…

A year to the day after his late-night ESPN2 show premiered comes news that Keith Olbermann is shifting to 5 PM ET. An ESPN exec said the move means he can host “key editions of SportsCenter surrounding major news or events throughout the year, while enabling us to secure a more consistent time slot to showcase his…