Sports Media

The Score has been on a roll in the ratings, but it’s fair to wonder how it will rate without Dan Bernstein, whose show was the station’s highest-rated in the last three quarterly books.
In the interview, Hudson objected to a question about how she and Belichick had met.
On Monday, Riordan posted on X that he’s no longer at The Score. The Sun-Times reported that his removal wasn’t related to a behavioral issue or anything he said on the air.
The CW will air nine games, with CBS and ESPN getting two games each.
His dismissal, which happened Monday, wasn’t related to a behavioral issue or anything he said on the air, the Sun-Times has learned.
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It’s a breakthrough for a league that’s only nationally televised preseason game ever was in 2019, and every preseason game this season will be available on TV or streaming.
Rahimi begins her second tour as a full-timer at the Audacy-owned station. She co-hosted the midday show with Bernstein from January 2021 to March 2022.
Sharpe said in a statement that he would return to ESPN at the start of the NFL preseason. The first preseason game is set for July 31.
Sharpe’s attorney called the lawsuit “a blatant and cynical attempt to shake down Mr. Sharpe for millions of dollars. It is filled with lies, distortions and misrepresentations — and it will not succeed.”
Chicago’s Very Own is looking to carry local sports again and believes there’s a path to airing the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks games that much of the area has missed, the Sun-Times has learned.
It’s baseball analysis at its best and a highlight of the show, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and will air its 1,000th episode in June. DeRosa calls his time with the Cubs “the best two years of my career.”
Corso, who turns 90 in August, debuted on ESPN’s college football pregame show in 1987. His first headgear pick — Ohio State’s Brutus Buckeye in Columbus, Ohio — happened on Oct. 5, 1996.
In pursuit of the precious dollar, teams are donning so many uniforms that some not only look silly, they’re unidentifiable.
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Millen spent two seasons playing for the Blackhawks.
At a Crain’s Chicago Business event Thursday, Reinsdorf said CHSN thought it had a deal with the cable provider in December but it fell apart. He said the issue with Comcast is at the corporate level.
While White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks ownership deserve plenty of criticism for launching a regional sports network at a time when the industry is contracting, it’s time to ask what in the world Comcast is doing.
The White Sox’ TV voice clarified to Friedman personally and on the air what he meant when he made a comment that prompted a team executive to chime in.
Bernstein wasn’t a Score original, but he might as well have been. Though the station hired him in 1995, three years after it launched, Bernstein first appeared on The Score in 1993 on Tom Shaer’s morning show.
The retirement of lead college football analyst Gary Danielson starts a slew of new assignments.
Rahimi co-hosted middays full-time with Bernstein for 15 months in 2021-22, and Harris co-hosted with him for six months.
“I’m sad for Dan and for the radio station,” said Dan McNeil, another sports-talk great whom The Score fired in 2020, also for an inappropriate social-media post. “They had no choice because the mighty X is America’s human-resources department.”
The Score vice president Mitch Rosen announced on the air Friday in a brief statement that Bernstein will not return to the station.
“The delivery is the No. 1 thing in our business,” said Harlan, who will call Illinois-Xavier for CBS on Friday night. “If your delivery is wrong, everything will go sideways.”
The Fever-Sky game June 7 at the United Center will air on CBS, making it the first WNBA regular-season game to air on broadcast TV in prime time in league history.
Midday show co-host Marshall Harris said on the air Monday that Bernstein has the week off. Leila Rahimi filled in. The Score has not returned a request for comment.
It makes him the highest-paid talent at the largest sports network in the world and the highest-paid non-former athlete in modern-day sports-media history.
Feinstein was a full-time reporter for The Washington Post from 1977 to 1991 and a commentator for outlets such as NPR, ESPN and the Golf Channel.
The network’s coverage of the conference’s men’s basketball tournament this week caps a season in which BTN set a record with 154 men’s basketball games.
The 2036 host has yet to be decided with interest shown by Olympic officials in countries including India, Qatar, Turkey, Hungary and Indonesia. The 2034 Winter Games will be in Salt Lake City.
Lead voice Jon “Boog” Sciambi has the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament, which begins the same day Cubs personnel leave for Tokyo. The Score will broadcast the two games against the Dodgers from Wrigley Field.