Sports tends to be a unique audience that is only interested in sports (esp men). Someone watching a Family Guy rerun probably will watch anything. That’s why cable providers pay $5 per month per home for ESPN and 70 cents for USA, though USA is the most watched cable network.

How’s the weather in Miami?

Sorry, but people actually watch ICC (and every other version of these friendlies) on TV? Wow, nothing more exciting than watching Gareth Bale and Ronaldo trot around for the first 45 minutes of a game on an undersized pitch in 90+ degree heat with insane Midwestern afternoon humidity! I SO want to spend my Saturday…

Who are your friends and acquaintances? I can only think of one person who is like this, and he is the one friend that doesn’t like sports

I know almost nobody like this.

Premium sports rights fees will continue to grow, but the sports that don’t bring a proven, dedicated audience are going to find the speculators unwilling to dive in as deep as they used to. So that means, everyone who isn’t the NFL and March Madness had better start finding other revenue sources (ironically, exactly…

Calling Fox’s offer—which came after the ICC shopped their rights around—“well below market value” makes little sense, given that it was literally, by definition, market value.

Lucky for him, if he was gonna get fired this was the best possible thing to get fired for because it’ll likely get him another job elsewhere just on the “Prince sportscaster got fired” notoriety.

How do *you* know he wouldn’t have done it to a male host?

They should replace Strahan with a younger woman. Kelly might just explode on camera.

Non-disclose agreement. Google the term, and think about how it applies to your clueless question.

A friend in my company asked me about the possible departure of our CEO. I went to a coworker about it in confidence. Literally said, “this is just between you and me, okay?” Twenty minutes later, I was getting phone calls from my boss asking me what I knew and how I knew it.

That speech when she came back really was soooooo much eyeroll. Not just the content, but the standing ovation, the whole thing. “Oh, Kelly, you’re soooooo brave, we LOVE YOU!!!!!” Gimme a break. I get being upset, but take the high road, cash your check, be a professional and MOVE ON. And PS, if this is the first…

No, it’s not sexism. It is playful, cohost behaviour that he probably thought she would find it funny, considering she has been on the opposite end of the deal before and made the exact same (light-hearted) gesture

Exactly! She’s the one being an asshole here. He’s avoided throwing anyone under the bus or fanning the flames or anything. This also wasn’t HIS IDEA. He didn’t go to the head of ABC and say “Hey, I should really switch over to GMA to help w/ ratings of 18-54 year old men. . .”. They came to him and offered him a new…

This isn’t so much about when she heard, but that he’s doing it. She didn’t like when he went to GMA part-time, proven by her statement, “I told you two years ago this would happen.” More than anything she’s pissed that he’s leaving, not when she heard about it. And if he was told not to say anything to anyone by the…

He didn’t disrespect her, though. He was not obligated to tell her. They are not friends off the air.

I feel like the only time there was ever any drama on this show was when she flipped out because Clay Aiken put a hand over her mouth and she acted like he backhanded her.

Actually, no, two totally separate buildings. GMA airs out of a studio in Times Square, while Live is in another ABC studio on the Upper West Side near Lincoln Center.

I hope they replace Strahan with Mike Tyson...that’s a morning show I’d watch the hell out of.