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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.
Robert Griffin III at Netflix's "Receiver" premiere held at the Tudum Theater on July 9, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. ... Griffin was seen as a candidate to be let go after his stock had ...
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 ...
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ESPN Inc. is an American multinational sports media conglomerate majority-owned by the Walt Disney Company, with Hearst Communications as an equity stakeholder. [1]Founded by Bill Rasmussen in 1979, it owns and operates local and global cable and satellite television variants of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN+ and other related ventures and is currently headed by executive James Pitaro.
ESPN currently charges the highest retransmission consent fee of any major cable television network in the United States. In 2011, the main channel alone carried a monthly rate of $4.69 per subscriber (nearly five times the price of the next-costliest channel, TNT), with ESPN's other English language channels costing an additional $1.13 per subscriber; these prices rise on a nearly constant basis.
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.
Long known as the 'Worldwide Leader in Sports,' ESPN is grappling with cord-cutting, rising rights fees and skepticism from Wall Street.