Recent news involving sports media personalities, including Lisa Salters‘ absence from ESPN college football coverage, Rich Eisen swapping NFL Network studio shows and Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco getting a new TV show.
- Lisa Salters: The ESPN reporter will not cover any college football games for the network during the 2010-11 season. Salters previously served as the sideline reporter for Saturday Night Football on ABC and worked January’s BCS National Championship Game. (EPSN)
- Rich Eisen: The NFL Network anchor will host NFL Gameday Morning this season, replacing Spero Dedes. With his new role, Eisen will no longer host the network’s NFL Gameday Final wrap-up show, although he will remain on the mid-afternoon NFL Gameday Scoreboard. (USA Today)
- Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco: The Bengals teammates and VH1 reality stars will be the subjects of The T.Ocho Show, a weekly talk show set to debut on Versus this fall. The half-hour show will feature Owens and Ochocinco discussing “the hottest news in and around the NFL, sports in general and pop culture,” with an unnamed host “[refereeing] the on-screen mayhem.” (Versus)
