ESPN is about to go through this again.<\/p>\n
According to The Athletic\u2019s Andrew Marchand<\/a>, ESPN and NFL Network are bracing for another wave of job cuts as part of a larger reduction across parent company Disney. Marchand\u2019s report says the cuts will hit a handful of on-camera personalities working out of Bristol along with a much bigger pool of NFL Network staffers who work both in front of and behind the camera.<\/p>\n Ryan Clark is the first name confirmed, with ESPN letting go of the former NFL defensive back<\/a> who built a career at the network that started with him working the telestrator on Scott Van Pelt\u2019s late-night SportsCenter and grew into a full-time hosting role on NFL Live, regular appearances on First Take and Get Up, and a seat on the Monday Night Countdown panel.<\/p>\n The layoffs continue a pattern that traces back to ESPN\u2019s absorption of NFL Network earlier this year. As part of that deal, the NFL took a 10 percent equity stake in ESPN, and while the arrangement gave ESPN full control of NFL Network and RedZone, it also merged an entire second workforce into Bristol\u2019s operation.<\/p>\n Front Office Sports reported in June<\/a> that ESPN was already bracing for more cuts on top of the roughly 30 off-camera employees let go that spring<\/a>, tying the coming layoffs partly to the NFL Network integration and to comments from incoming Disney CEO Josh D\u2019Amaro, who referenced \u201celiminating roles<\/a>\u201d in a note to staff around his promotion. Several NFL Network personalities \u2014 including Ian Rapoport<\/a> \u2014 have since signed new deals with ESPN and Disney even as this latest round of cuts hits others across the same platform.<\/p>\n How many additional names surface Tuesday, and how deep the cuts run at NFL Network specifically, isn\u2019t yet clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN is about to go through this again. According to The Athletic\u2019s Andrew Marchand, ESPN and NFL Network…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":949331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[116140,7299,5723,1318,244516,15876,1317,1315,1316,59920,33511,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-949330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-andrew-marchand","tag-disney","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-josh-damaro","tag-layoffs","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl-network","tag-ryan-clark","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116957286760651911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}