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ESPN has fired football analyst Robert Griffin III and host Samantha Ponder, a person familiar with the situation told CNN on Thursday. Both moves were business decisions, the source said.
The two had limited roles at ESPN: RG3 was recently taken off "Monday Night Countdown" in favor of Jason Kelce, while Ponder's only role at the network was hosted the weekly NFL preview show.
At ESPN, Griffin was part of the network's "Monday Night Countdown" show that aired ahead of "Monday Night Football," and he also served as an analyst for college football games.
The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen, then 43 year old eye doctor and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan. [1] Bill, who had an affinity with sports for much of his life, was fired from his position as the communications manager for the New England Whalers in 1978. [1]
ESPN has fired football analyst Robert Griffin III and host Samantha Ponder, according to a report from The Athletic. Griffin, a former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner at Baylor, was ...
In 1995, ESPN2 debuted a sports news ticker, dubbed by Production Assistant Onnie Bose as the "BottomLine Update." It is a persistent ticker which stayed at the bottom of the screen at all times during most programming, unlike ESPN, who only showed their own at the :18 (formerly :28) and :58 of each hour (accompanied by an audio cue, which has since been adapted as the alert tone for ESPN's ...
Long known as the 'Worldwide Leader in Sports,' ESPN is grappling with cord-cutting, rising rights fees and skepticism from Wall Street.