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ESPN said Thursday that due to concerns over Covid and Covid-related restrictions that it will not send its news personnel to the Winter Olympics next month in Beijing. The news comes a day after rightsholder NBC said it will keep most of its announcing teams in the U.S. during the Games, which are set to run February 4-20.

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Senior ESPN Production Exec Norby Williamson Is Leaving After A Nearly 40-Year Run

ESPN EVP of Production Norby Williamson, who helped build SportsCenter into a signature franchise but recently had a public clash with Pat McAfee, is departing after nearly 40 years at the network.

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Norby Williamson Exits ESPN After Nearly Four Decades

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Norby Williamson, the ESPN veteran who has managed everything from NFL coverage to “SportsCenter,” is leaving the Disney sports-media giant abruptly just weeks after being called out on camera in a surprise and unprecedented outburst by daytime host Pat McAfee. The McAfee contretemps is not at the root of Williamson’s departure, according to a person familiar with the matter, but rather disagreements between the executive and the longer-term strategy being devised by Burke Magnus, who was handed oversight of content and news production in March of last year.

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Pat McAfee Says He’s Not “Trying To Get Fired” From ESPN & Doesn’t “Take Back Anything” After Claiming Executive Was Sabotaging Show

Pat McAfee is standing firm on his claims that an ESPN executive was “trying to sabotage” his show.

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ESPN Inks New Multi-Year Deal With ‘SportsCenter’s Kevin Negandhi

Kevin Negandhi will continue to be a presence on ESPN. The anchor and studio host has signed a new multi-year contract with the network in which he’ll continue to host weekday SportsCenter, as well as Special Olympics and ABC’s coverage of college football and the NBA draft.

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ESPN Exec Blasted By Pat McAfee On Air, Accused Of Leaking Negative Information

Less than a year after signing a reported $85 million deal spread over five years to join ESPN, host Pat McAfee is not happy with at least one network executive.,

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Max Kellerman’s New ESPN Show, ‘This Just In,’ to Debut September 14

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN said it would place sports host Max Kellerman in a new mid-afternoon program after taking him off the popular hot-talk show “First Take” last month, unveiling a daytime schedule it hopes will keep viewers interested for a longer period of time.Kellerman’s new program, “This Just In,” will debut September 14 at 2 p.m., and offer news, opinion and analysis of trending sports headlines as well as looking ahead at potential sports news from the evening ahead.

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ESPN Assigns Content Duties to Senior Executives After Schell Departure

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN is divvying up responsibilities for content in the wake of senior executive Connor Schell’s decision to leave the sports-media giant to start his own production company.Burke Magnus has long been the ESPN executive who makes sure the sports-media giant always has access to games from the big leagues.

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Senior ESPN Production Exec Norby Williamson Is Leaving After A Nearly 40-Year Run

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