Jimmy Pitaro

Disney is preparing to layoff 4,000 employees and it has been reported that many of those layoffs will be at its ESPN cable sports network.

ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro has announced that 300 positions within the company will be eliminated 200 will not be filled, as the network looks to cut costs in the face of continuous subscriber losses and the effects of the coronavirus.

It looks like another wave of layoffs is coming to ESPN, maybe to the tune of hundreds of lost jobs.

After years of losing subscribers, ESPN owner Disney is once again looking to lay off hundreds of employees at the cable sports network.

ESPN anchor Sage Steele believes that two of her black colleagues at ESPN conspired to keep her out of a recent social justice documentary, because they felt like she wouldn’t speak with an authentic black voice, the Wall Street Journal reports.

ESPN has reportedly suspended one of their reporters for a profane response to an email from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R, MO)

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R, MO) has invited ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro to Washington to discuss his association with the NBA, who is partnered with one of the most significant human rights abusers in the world, China.

Cable sports network ESPN has increased viewership by 18% since its decision to go back to sports, and leave politics behind.

ESPN host Dan Le Batard opted to skip Monday’s show after ESPN bosses called him on the carpet for breaking company policy on political talk.

ESPN reiterated its recent policy for hosts to avoid politics if at all possible, after ESPN radio host Dan Le Batard went on a deeply left-wing political rant criticizing President Donald Trump and his voters.

A recent L.A. Times story in which the president of ESPN admitted that the network had become too political, set-off a Twitter debate between two former high-profile ESPN personalities.

ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro conceded defeat Monday by finally admitting, “Without question our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover politics.”

ESPN was suddenly left with a vacancy when former Dallas Cowboy and Tennessee Volunteer Jason Witten, abruptly decided to leave the Monday Night Football booth and return to the playing field.

ESPN has finally settled a lawsuit filed by tennis commentator Doug Adler ,who was fired for saying that Venus Williams used “guerrilla” tactics on the tennis court. Moreover, the network didn’t rule out possibly re-hiring Adler to do tennis commentary in the future.

After years of denials, Disney CEO Bob Iger is finally on record admitting that ESPN went too far to the left by saturating their coverage with liberal politics. And ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro agrees with him.

Disney’s Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger admitted in a revealing interview released Thursday that ESPN became too political, an issue Hollywood’s most powerful man says the sports network’s president is trying to fix.

ESPN’s new president is asserting his power over the network after only five months on the job. Specifically, Jimmy Pitaro is warning employees to focus more on sports and leave the politics behind.

ESPN writer Jemele Hill has blasted the Philadelphia Police Department, and implied that racism played a role in the handling of the arrest of two black men in a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday.