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Thanks Intech, because calling out the misogyny in sports is of national interest...
Source: Washington Post
ESPN on Monday announced that it is canceling its late-night sports show, “Barstool Van Talk,” less than a week after the program featuring Barstool Sports personalities Dan Katz, otherwise known as Barstool Big Cat, and PFT Commenter debuted.
“Effective immediately, I am cancelling ‘Barstool Van Talk’,” ESPN President John Skipper said in a statement. “While we had approval on the content of the show, I erred in assuming we could distance our efforts from the Barstool site and its content. Apart from this decision, we appreciate the efforts of Big Cat and PFT Commenter. They delivered the show they promised.”
The first and only episode of “Barstool Van Talk” aired Wednesday at 1 a.m. on ESPN2. It drew an overnight rating of .05 and 88,000 viewers. Sam Ponder, the host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown,” was among those who criticized Barstool Sports for its history of misogynistic blog posts after the site’s partnership with ESPN was announced. A day before “Barstool Van Talk” debuted, Ponder tweeted about such a post that Barstool Sports once wrote about her. In audio that has since been removed from Barstool’s site, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy also repeatedly referred to Ponder as a slut. ESPN issued a statement about those comments last week.
“The comments about Sam Ponder were offensive and inappropriate, and we understand her reaction,” Burke Magnus, the executive vice president for programming and scheduling, said in an email to The Washington Post. “She is a valued colleague and doing a great job for us. As stated previously, we do not control the content of Barstool Sports. We are doing a show with Big Cat and PFT, and we do have final say on the content of that show.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/10/23/espn-cancels-barstool-van-talk-after-one-episode/
ESPN on Monday announced that it is canceling its late-night sports show, “Barstool Van Talk,” less than a week after the program featuring Barstool Sports personalities Dan Katz, otherwise known as Barstool Big Cat, and PFT Commenter debuted.
“Effective immediately, I am cancelling ‘Barstool Van Talk’,” ESPN President John Skipper said in a statement. “While we had approval on the content of the show, I erred in assuming we could distance our efforts from the Barstool site and its content. Apart from this decision, we appreciate the efforts of Big Cat and PFT Commenter. They delivered the show they promised.”
The first and only episode of “Barstool Van Talk” aired Wednesday at 1 a.m. on ESPN2. It drew an overnight rating of .05 and 88,000 viewers. Sam Ponder, the host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown,” was among those who criticized Barstool Sports for its history of misogynistic blog posts after the site’s partnership with ESPN was announced. A day before “Barstool Van Talk” debuted, Ponder tweeted about such a post that Barstool Sports once wrote about her. In audio that has since been removed from Barstool’s site, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy also repeatedly referred to Ponder as a slut. ESPN issued a statement about those comments last week.
“The comments about Sam Ponder were offensive and inappropriate, and we understand her reaction,” Burke Magnus, the executive vice president for programming and scheduling, said in an email to The Washington Post. “She is a valued colleague and doing a great job for us. As stated previously, we do not control the content of Barstool Sports. We are doing a show with Big Cat and PFT, and we do have final say on the content of that show.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/10/23/espn-cancels-barstool-van-talk-after-one-episode/
Reference: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141896119
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Same with Harvey Weinstein, Screen Junkies, Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump, these misogynist pigs need to be called out! It's our patriotic duty! 
What was ESPN thinking?! Oy! 