ESPN has canceled High Noon. Also: last month’s postponed Clippers-Lakers game has a new date; AT&T’s RSNs have attracted little interest.
High Noon canceled
ESPN has canceled its daily Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre talk show “High Noon” effective at the end of next month, Sports Business Daily reported Monday. The show will be replaced by Jalen and Jacoby, which currently airs on ESPN2.
Jones and Torre are both on expiring contracts. ESPN was vague and non-committal on the pair’s future, saying in a statement to SBD that it planned to discuss with the them “how to best utilize their talents across a variety of ESPN platforms.”
High Noon debuted less than two years ago, making it one of ESPN’s shortest-lived daytime shows in recent memory. The Washington Post first reported last year that the show’s future was in question. [SBD 2.24]
NBA announces new date for PPD Clippers-Lakers game
The NBA announced last week that the Clippers-Lakers game originally scheduled for January 28, which was postponed due to the deaths two days earlier of Laker great Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others in a helicopter crash, has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 9. The game will remain on TNT.
Clippers-Lakers will replace the night’s originally scheduled Warriors-Lakers game, which will move to Tuesday, April 7 and also remain on TNT. Warriors-Lakers will in turn bump that night’s originally-scheduled Clippers-Jazz game. [NBA]
Bids underwhelming for AT&T RSNs
Bids for the four AT&T-owned regional sports networks have come in at or below half of the expected price of $1 billion, the New York Post reported last week, “raising concerns” that the company might decide to hold onto the properties. News first broke that AT&T was interested in selling the RSNs last summer and the company reportedly received the bids late last year. [NYP 2.17]
