{"id":246248,"date":"2025-12-22T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/246248\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:16:13","slug":"talaya-gaines-jumps-to-espn-for-talent-relations-vp-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/246248\/","title":{"rendered":"Talaya Gaines Jumps to ESPN for Talent Relations VP Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/talaya-gaines\/\" id=\"auto-tag_talaya-gaines\" data-tag=\"talaya-gaines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talaya Gaines<\/a>, a veteran TV sports executive, has been named vice president of talent relations and development at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/espn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_espn\" data-tag=\"espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>, marking a return to the Disney sports-media giant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGaines had most recently worked as vice president of content strategy and original programming for MSG Networks. She worked a previous 14-year stint at ESPN as managing producer of ESPN+ and original content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGaines starts her new role on January 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe will focus on the management, development and recruitment of talent, and will report to Freddy Rol\u00f3n, who oversees ESPN\u2019s global sports and talent office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe expansion of our Talent Office is a significant investment in ESPN\u2019s talent community,\u201d said\u00a0Rol\u00f3n. \u201cWe have the deepest roster in sports media, and the addition of Talaya to our team will super-serve this exceptional group while strategically positioning them to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tESPN also said Rosetta Ellis-Pilie has been named vice president of talent negotiations and policy, a new role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talaya Gaines, a veteran TV sports executive, has been named vice president of talent relations and development at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,13499,19,17,128837,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-246248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-talaya-gaines","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}