PHILLY SPORTS RADIO LEGEND BIG DADDY GRAHAM PASSES AT 68
By Annie Ross Philly sports talk legend and comedian Big Daddy Graham passed away last night at 68. Sportsradio 94WIP’s…
ESPN LAUNCHED 42 YEARS AGO TODAY, CHANGING SPORTS FOREVER!
By Harvey Hoffman On Sept. 7, 1979, 42 years ago today, Lee Leonard introduced ESPN to sports fans as the…
ESPN FINALLY ZIPS RACHEL NICHOLS: DOES ANYONE REALLY CARE?!
By Melody Miller ESPN is canceling Rachel Nichols’ show, “The Jump,” and pulling her off NBA programming, almost two months…
OLYMPICS: WORST RATINGS SINCE 1988, COMCAST STILL MADE A PROFIT!
By Mary Cunningham Nothing succeeds like excess. Especially in the parallel universe of Olympics business models. The Tokyo Olympics attracted…
COMCAST’S OLYMPICS DISASTER: RATINGS DOWN 42% FROM RIO IN ’16!
By Mary Cunningham The Olympics are a ratings disaster for Comcast-owned NBC Universal. Advertisers paid $1.25 million for a 30-second…
OLYMPIC STREAMING RATINGS THROUGH ROOF, OVERALL IN THE TOILET!
By Marc Taylor NBCUniversal reports a 72% increase in streaming audiences for the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, compared to…
WTF — PAYING CHEAPIE COMCAST FOR PEACOCK TO WATCH USA HOOPS!
By Harry Allison As painful as it was for the USA to lose to France yesterday for its first Olympic…
MARIA TAYLOR HEADS TO NBC AFTER RACHEL NICHOLS PISSED ON HER!
By Harvey Hoffman NBA and NFL analyst/host Maria Taylor is officially leaving ESPN. According to an ESPN statement, Taylor and the…
PHILLY’S JAMES DRAKE, A SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE AGES
By Theodore N. Beitchman A friend of mine is now 89 and fading in his Society Hill home. I worked…
WOW: EX-INKY HACK PHIL SHERIDAN PROUD TO CANCEL HOME DELIVERY!
By Harvey Hoffman ESPN hired away the Inky’s Phil Sheridan to be its Eagles beat reporter back in 2013. Then…