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ESPN revealed its upcoming UFL schedule on Thursday, and the announcement included several surprises about the network’s other live sports properties. Since February of last year, when ESPN decided to opt out of its Sunday Night Baseball deal with MLB, there has been abundant speculation about how the network might choose to fill those marquee Sunday Read more... The post UFL replaces ESPN’s old ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ slot over Women’s Elite Eight appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Outlook couldn’t keep up

Since the network’s launch in 1979, ESPN has not seen an audience larger than what it captured on Sunday, at least when adding in the tens of millions of viewers watching on ABC. ESPN and ABC averaged 38 million viewers for its Sunday afternoon telecast of the Houston Texans-New England Patriots game in the Divisional Read more... The post ESPN touts largest audience ever for Texans-Patriots, Rams-Bears sets Divisional Round record for NBC appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Scott Van Pelt doesn’t know if he’s taking the 5 p.m. timeslot on ESPN. He doesn’t have a rundown. He doesn’t have a run of show. He doesn’t know who’d be part of it. But he knows ESPN wants to talk about it, and he knows they came close to making it happen with Ryen Read more... The post Scott Van Pelt reveals how close he came to reuniting with Ryen Russillo appeared first on Awful Announcing.

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