Black Man of the Day: Bomani Jones Update: Leaving ESPN!
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i hate to say it...
cause i been with Bo from day one
but Hitman just needs a REAL quick once a week at this point
a little bit of Mike goes a LONG way...
no hate though.
I miss Shannon
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More than a year and a half after it was first rumored and nearly a year to the date after it was officially announced, the upcoming ESPN show with Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre has a name and a start date.
ESPN announced Tuesday that the show will be called “High Noon (9 a.m. Pacific)” — yes, that’s the full name — and will debut Monday, June 4.
The show will air live from New York between 12 and 1 p.m. ET on ESPN.
High Noon (9 a.m. Pacific) has been a long time coming. We first heard that ESPN was weighing a Bomani-Pablo show back in October 2016, and after months of rumors, the network officially announced it in May 2017. It was originally supposed to debut in January, but construction delays at ESPN’s new New York studio pushed back the date. By the time the show actually starts, it will have been more than a year since it was first announced.
ESPN still hasn’t revealed much about High Noon, but based on interviews Torre and Jones have done, it sounds as if the show will feature longer-form discussion about subjects that interest the hosts. Appearing on The Tony Kornheiser Show last week, Torre said High Noon will be different from shows like PTI that bounce from topic to topic every few minutes.
“We are making a fundamental bet on the idea that there are a couple things that are underrated or at least useful in an age when attention spans have sort of been recognized as so short,” Torre said. “Television has been optimized, thanks to Erik [Rydholm], thanks to the internet, into a serving economy. It’s tight, it’s quick, we anticipate you’re going to tune out. And right now we’re betting that maybe we don’t have to do that. That there’s an audience in this world of great fragmentation for someone who may want what we have to ramble about for 22 minutes.”
“Now, all of that is to say, that sounds like a terrible strategy if that doesn’t work,” he said, “but if it does, we’ll be visionaries.”
“Now, all of that is to say, that sounds like a terrible strategy if that doesn’t work,” he said, “but if it does, we’ll be visionaries.”
Torre is right that the stakes are high. With ESPN’s morning show Get Up struggling in its early weeks (in terms of both ratings and reviews), the network could really use a win. In the 12 p.m. ET time slot, High Noon doesn’t have to appeal to everyone, but it does have to find a core audience that will tune in regularly enough to make all this build-up worth the trouble.
There’s reason for optimism though. Jones and Torre have an intriguing concept, an imminent start date and a name that makes viewers feel as though they’re getting away with something. That’s a pretty good start.
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Bomani Jones Signs Contract Extension With ESPN
Bomani Jones has signed a contract extension with ESPN, the network announced this morning. Jones hosts The Right Time, a growing podcast, and is a regular on m
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Bomani Jones Signs Contract Extension With ESPN
By Stephen Douglas | Jul 01 2020
Bomani Jones has signed a contract extension with ESPN, the network announced this morning. Jones hosts The Right Time, a growing podcast, and is a regular on many ESPN programs like SportsCenter, Get Up, Outside the Lines and Around the Horn, and Dan Le Batard's radio show among other things. He has been with ESPN since 2004.
High Noon, his show with Pablo Torre, was canceled earlier this year, but the ESPN still seems happy to work with Jones. He will remain one of ESPN's most progressive voices. Last week he battled future Fox News personality Will Cain on his comments about the Bubba Wallace noose story. A week earlier he went after Mike Gundy for a weak apology for wearing an OAN shirt.
Bomani Jones Signs Contract Extension With ESPN
Bomani Jones has signed a contract extension with ESPN, the network announced this morning. Jones hosts The Right Time, a growing podcast, and is a regular on m
Bomani Jones Signs Contract Extension With ESPN
By Stephen Douglas | Jul 01 2020
Bomani Jones has signed a contract extension with ESPN, the network announced this morning. Jones hosts The Right Time, a growing podcast, and is a regular on many ESPN programs like SportsCenter, Get Up, Outside the Lines and Around the Horn, and Dan Le Batard's radio show among other things. He has been with ESPN since 2004.
High Noon, his show with Pablo Torre, was canceled earlier this year, but the ESPN still seems happy to work with Jones. He will remain one of ESPN's most progressive voices. Last week he battled future Fox News personality Will Cain on his comments about the Bubba Wallace noose story. A week earlier he went after Mike Gundy for a weak apology for wearing an OAN shirt.
I'm not sure what ESPN was thinking putting Bomani with Pablo Torre. That show was destined to fail. Pablo is garbage and a girly man. Max Kellerman is getting a radio show again. I'd like to see him and Bomani together.
Bomani and Pablo are boys
I did not know Max was getting a show they should have paired him with Key
https://www.nj.com/giants/2020/07/e...reenberg-returns-keyshawn-johnson-debuts.html
6-10 a.m.: Keyshawn, Jay and Zubin
10 a.m. – Noon: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Noon – 2 p.m.: The Mike Greenberg Show
2 – 4 p.m.: The Max Kellerman Show
4 – 7 p.m.: Chiney and Golic Jr.
7 – 9 p.m.: Spain and Fitz
9 p.m. – 1 a.m.: Freddie and Fitzsimmons
Keyshawn is moving to the east coast to do radio and NFL live. He would be a good partner for Max. Maybe Max will get Bomani to co-host.
Dan Le Batard’s New Media Startup Will Reportedly Target Jemele Hill And Bomani Jones
ROBBY KALLANDTWITTERSENIOR SPORTS WRITER
JANUARY 12, 2021
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Dan Le Batard has ventured off on his own after two decades at ESPN, as the longtime columnist, radio host, and TV personality parted ways with the four-letter on January 4 with an emotional goodbye on Highly Questionable.
In the week-plus since, Le Batard’s radio show has been doing a “pirate” broadcast now that it is independent and while there was ample speculation about where the wildly popular show would land, the answer we got over the weekend was that Le Batard and former ESPN chief John Skipper would be teaming up to launch a new media company. While we don’t know specifics on a launch date for the new outlet or even a name, we do have some details on who they will be targeting to bring on board.
According to Front Office Sports, they are going after a number of Le Batard’s former ESPN colleagues, including Jemele Hill (who confirmed discussions in the story), Bomani Jones, Kate Fagan, and Erik Rydholm — the producer and creator of Highly Questionable, PTI, and much of ESPN’s afternoon block.
In any case, the Le Batard and Skipper company clearly has a vision for the type of personality they want to bring on board and see themselves as capable of landing some very big fish — which also indicates they will have ample funding behind them.
ROBBY KALLANDTWITTERSENIOR SPORTS WRITER
JANUARY 12, 2021
Dan Le Batard’s Media Startup Will Target Jemele Hill And Bomani Jones
Dan Le Batard reportedly has his eye on some of his favorite former ESPN colleagues to bring onto his new media startup.
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Dan Le Batard has ventured off on his own after two decades at ESPN, as the longtime columnist, radio host, and TV personality parted ways with the four-letter on January 4 with an emotional goodbye on Highly Questionable.
In the week-plus since, Le Batard’s radio show has been doing a “pirate” broadcast now that it is independent and while there was ample speculation about where the wildly popular show would land, the answer we got over the weekend was that Le Batard and former ESPN chief John Skipper would be teaming up to launch a new media company. While we don’t know specifics on a launch date for the new outlet or even a name, we do have some details on who they will be targeting to bring on board.
According to Front Office Sports, they are going after a number of Le Batard’s former ESPN colleagues, including Jemele Hill (who confirmed discussions in the story), Bomani Jones, Kate Fagan, and Erik Rydholm — the producer and creator of Highly Questionable, PTI, and much of ESPN’s afternoon block.
Hill has a number of projects she is working on, like her Vice show Stick To Sports with Cari Champion as well as a Spotify podcast, so it seems the biggest hurdle is figuring out exactly what her role would be and how involved she is. Jones is still under contract with ESPN, having taken over Highly Questionable in Le Batard’s absence among other responsibilities, so swiping him away would be quite the task.
In any case, the Le Batard and Skipper company clearly has a vision for the type of personality they want to bring on board and see themselves as capable of landing some very big fish — which also indicates they will have ample funding behind them.
This right here is the way. Any organization that relies on highly skilled, essential staff being face to face collaborating to innovate and get complex stuff done will be thinking this way about new hires. The NFL, NBA, MLB, Microsoft, Citi, Ford, CBS, etc....
Bomani Jones will contribute to Bob Costas' HBO interview show "Back on the Record," which premieres Friday
Bob Costas' "Back on the Record" show is coming to HBO Friday. Bomani Jones will contribute to roundtables and provide commentaries.
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Bomani Jones will contribute to Bob Costas’ HBO interview show “Back on the Record,” which premieres Friday
HBOBy Andrew Bucholtz on 07/26/2021
Back in April, we wrote about Bob Costas hosting an upcoming interview show on HBO and HBO Max, called Back on the Record with Bob Costas (a tribute to his initial On The Record with Bob Costas, which aired on HBO from 2001-04 before being turned into Costas Now). That show’s premiere is now set for Friday, and HBO recently announced that Bomani Jones (known for his work with ESPN, including his current hosting of The Right Time with Bomani Jones and contributions to Outside The Lines, Highly Questionable, and more) will be part of that show, both with on-camera commentaries and with contribution to roundtable discussions. And Jones tweeted about that Monday:
Here’s more from that release:
It’s definitely notable to see Costas’ new show approaching air, and to hear that Jones will be a part of it. We’ll see how Back on the Record is received when it premieres Friday.
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UPDATE: Bomani Jones reportedly expected to leave ESPN when contract expires in March (joining HBO w/ new show; staying at ESPN)
I’ve felt that it was time for him to part ways with ESPN for years in order to allow himself more creativjournalistic freedom, and furthermore, they need him WAY more than he needs them at this point. That brand ain’t what it was and he can do all the stuff he does best from a media standpoint...
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Bomani Jones reportedly expected to leave ESPN when contract expires in March
According to the New York Post, Bomani Jones's time at ESPN could reach an end when his contract expires in March.
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Bomani Jones reportedly expected to leave ESPN when contract expires in March
By Ian Casselberry10/04/2021
Bomani Jones’s time at ESPN is reportedly moving toward its end.
Andrew Marchand of the New York Postreports in his weekly SportsClicker newsletter that Jones is not expected to renew his contract with the network when it expires in March. Though an official decision has not been made, ESPN whittling down the properties on which Jones appears makes that conclusion likely.
As Marchand points out, if ESPN wanted to stay in the Bomani Jones business, Highly Questionable would probably have remained on the air with him hosting the show. Instead, the show was canceled and revamped into a new program titled Debatablewhich premieres today (Oct. 4) at noon ET on the network’s digital channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the ESPN app).
Jones being part of the Debatable crew seemed like a natural move. Yet in ESPN’s promotional video for the new show, he’s notably absent among “your favorite talking heads” — including Mina Kimes, Elle Duncan, Mike Golic Jr., and Pablo Torre — that will participate.
According to Marchand, Jones will still appear as a panelist on Around the Horn and distribute his podcast, The Right Time with Bomani Jones, through ESPN. Unless he agrees to a new contract, however, those roles may only apply until his contract expires in March.
Jones once looked like a rising star at ESPN, especially after he and Torre got their own show, High Noon, in 2018. What the network’s long-term ambitions for the show and its hosts were aren’t known, but Tony Kornheiser once publicly said that he believed Jones and Torre would be the natural successors to him and Michael Wilbon for Pardon the Interruption.
Obviously, Kornheiser is not in charge of programming nor did his prediction boost ratings. Whether it was the air time — debuting at noon ET before being moved to 4 p.m. — the glut of debate-focused daytime programming, or an attempt to be more nuanced and insightful with their discussions rather than shouting hot takes at each other, High Noon didn’t engage viewers and was canceled less than two years later. Both Jones and Torre later agreed to new contracts with ESPN.
If Jones leaves ESPN, the question is where he might land next. He has a role as commentator and roundtable contributor with HBO’s Back on the Record with Bob Costas. But that’s a monthly program, airing three episodes since its debut in late July.
Marchand mentions Showtime as a possibility, which appears to be a good place to build a show around him. The Right Time could join All the Smoke and Morning Kombat in the premium cable channel’s podcast lineup, providing a wider-ranging show to go with the sports-specific programs on the roster. And on the regular network, Jones could possibly develop a show around commentary and documentary, as seen with weekly programs Desus & Mero and The Circus, and the many documentaries (sports and otherwise) Showtime currently produces.
Considering his past relationships with Dan Le Batard and John Skipper, Meadowlark Media could be a logical choice. And Jones was mentioned as someone the new media company would pursue when it launched. He could move The Right Time over there and appear across the “Le Batard and Friends” network. Spotify (either on his own or with The Ringer) could be a fit too.
Maybe Jones has already been looking ahead to his next stop. Earlier this year, he told the Washington Post‘s Ben Strauss that he wasn’t sure how personalities not named Stephen A. Smith fit at ESPN. So he apparently saw this outcome with the network, especially since ESPN hasn’t developed a showcase for Jones as it has with Torre and the ESPN Daily podcast.
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Bomani Jones’ ESPN run is all but over, but he’ll have options
However you want to break it down, Bomani Jones has been in the top class of ESPN-developed opinion-makers over the last two decades.
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Bomani Jones’ ESPN run is all but over, but he’ll have options
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Andrew Marchand
October 4, 2021 8:20am
News: Bomani Jones and ESPN are expected to part ways, Post Sports+ has learned. It is more a matter of when, not if.
Big Money: ESPN has been scaling back on salaries. Jones previously had a three-year contract that averaged more than $2 million per year, according to sources. In Jones’ next contract, which was agreed to after “High Noon,” his show with Pablo Torre, was canceled, ESPN cut Jones’ salary to a little more than $1 million per year on a two-year deal. That current contract expires in March.
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Bomani Jones reportedly expected to leave ESPN when contract expires in March
Bomani Jones’s time at ESPN is reportedly moving toward its end.
Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports in his weekly SportsClicker newsletter that Jones is not expected to renew his contract with the network when it expires in March. Though an official decision has not been made, ESPN whittling down the properties on which Jones appears makes that conclusion likely.
As Marchand points out, if ESPN wanted to stay in the Bomani Jones business, Highly Questionable would probably have remained on the air with him hosting the show. Instead, the show was canceled and revamped into a new program titled Debatable which premieres today (Oct. 4) at noon ET on the network’s digital channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the ESPN app).
Jones being part of the Debatable crew seemed like a natural move. Yet in ESPN’s promotional video for the new show, he’s notably absent among “your favorite talking heads” — including Mina Kimes, Elle Duncan, Mike Golic Jr., and Pablo Torre — that will participate.
According to Marchand, Jones will still appear as a panelist on Around the Horn and distribute his podcast, The Right Time with Bomani Jones, through ESPN. Unless he agrees to a new contract, however, those roles may only apply until his contract expires in March.
Jones once looked like a rising star at ESPN, especially after he and Torre got their own show, High Noon, in 2018. What the network’s long-term ambitions for the show and its hosts were aren’t known, but Tony Kornheiser once publicly said that he believed Jones and Torre would be the natural successors to him and Michael Wilbon for Pardon the Interruption.
Obviously, Kornheiser is not in charge of programming nor did his prediction boost ratings. Whether it was the air time — debuting at noon ET before being moved to 4 p.m. — the glut of debate-focused daytime programming, or an attempt to be more nuanced and insightful with their discussions rather than shouting hot takes at each other, High Noon didn’t engage viewers and was canceled less than two years later. Both Jones and Torre later agreed to new contracts with ESPN.
If Jones leaves ESPN, the question is where he might land next. He has a role as commentator and roundtable contributor with HBO’s Back on the Record with Bob Costas. But that’s a monthly program, airing three episodes since its debut in late July.
Marchand mentions Showtime as a possibility, which appears to be a good place to build a show around him. The Right Time could join All the Smoke and Morning Kombat in the premium cable channel’s podcast lineup, providing a wider-ranging show to go with the sports-specific programs on the roster. And on the regular network, Jones could possibly develop a show around commentary and documentary, as seen with weekly programs Desus & Mero and The Circus, and the many documentaries (sports and otherwise) Showtime currently produces.
Considering his past relationships with Dan Le Batard and John Skipper, Meadowlark Media could be a logical choice. And Jones was mentioned as someone the new media company would pursue when it launched. He could move The Right Time over there and appear across the “Le Batard and Friends” network. Spotify (either on his own or with The Ringer) could be a fit too.
Maybe Jones has already been looking ahead to his next stop. Earlier this year, he told the Washington Post‘s Ben Strauss that he wasn’t sure how personalities not named Stephen A. Smith fit at ESPN. So he apparently saw this outcome with the network, especially since ESPN hasn’t developed a showcase for Jones as it has with Torre and the ESPN Daily podcast.
ESPNBy Ian Casselberry on 10/04/2021
Bomani Jones’s time at ESPN is reportedly moving toward its end.
Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports in his weekly SportsClicker newsletter that Jones is not expected to renew his contract with the network when it expires in March. Though an official decision has not been made, ESPN whittling down the properties on which Jones appears makes that conclusion likely.
As Marchand points out, if ESPN wanted to stay in the Bomani Jones business, Highly Questionable would probably have remained on the air with him hosting the show. Instead, the show was canceled and revamped into a new program titled Debatable which premieres today (Oct. 4) at noon ET on the network’s digital channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the ESPN app).
Jones being part of the Debatable crew seemed like a natural move. Yet in ESPN’s promotional video for the new show, he’s notably absent among “your favorite talking heads” — including Mina Kimes, Elle Duncan, Mike Golic Jr., and Pablo Torre — that will participate.
According to Marchand, Jones will still appear as a panelist on Around the Horn and distribute his podcast, The Right Time with Bomani Jones, through ESPN. Unless he agrees to a new contract, however, those roles may only apply until his contract expires in March.
Jones once looked like a rising star at ESPN, especially after he and Torre got their own show, High Noon, in 2018. What the network’s long-term ambitions for the show and its hosts were aren’t known, but Tony Kornheiser once publicly said that he believed Jones and Torre would be the natural successors to him and Michael Wilbon for Pardon the Interruption.
Obviously, Kornheiser is not in charge of programming nor did his prediction boost ratings. Whether it was the air time — debuting at noon ET before being moved to 4 p.m. — the glut of debate-focused daytime programming, or an attempt to be more nuanced and insightful with their discussions rather than shouting hot takes at each other, High Noon didn’t engage viewers and was canceled less than two years later. Both Jones and Torre later agreed to new contracts with ESPN.
If Jones leaves ESPN, the question is where he might land next. He has a role as commentator and roundtable contributor with HBO’s Back on the Record with Bob Costas. But that’s a monthly program, airing three episodes since its debut in late July.
Marchand mentions Showtime as a possibility, which appears to be a good place to build a show around him. The Right Time could join All the Smoke and Morning Kombat in the premium cable channel’s podcast lineup, providing a wider-ranging show to go with the sports-specific programs on the roster. And on the regular network, Jones could possibly develop a show around commentary and documentary, as seen with weekly programs Desus & Mero and The Circus, and the many documentaries (sports and otherwise) Showtime currently produces.
Considering his past relationships with Dan Le Batard and John Skipper, Meadowlark Media could be a logical choice. And Jones was mentioned as someone the new media company would pursue when it launched. He could move The Right Time over there and appear across the “Le Batard and Friends” network. Spotify (either on his own or with The Ringer) could be a fit too.
Maybe Jones has already been looking ahead to his next stop. Earlier this year, he told the Washington Post‘s Ben Strauss that he wasn’t sure how personalities not named Stephen A. Smith fit at ESPN. So he apparently saw this outcome with the network, especially since ESPN hasn’t developed a showcase for Jones as it has with Torre and the ESPN Daily podcast.
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He getting simultaneously checks from HBO and ESPN/DISNEY
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ESPN’s Bomani Jones to Launch Weekly Late-Night Sports Series on HBO
Bomani Jones, the popular ESPN host, will start production on a new, weekly late-night series at HBO next year.
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