That Was Fast: ESPN Dumps Late-Night Barstool Sports Show After One Episode
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Less than a week after the late-night show premiered to underwhelming ratings and employees bristled about having to associate with a brand many viewed as a haven for meatheaded misogyny, ESPN has Scaramucci’ed “Barstool Van Sports.”
ESPN president John Skipper on Monday announced that he had yanked the show from the ESPN2 roster. “Effective immediately, I am cancelling ‘Barstool Van Talk,'” 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 [aka Dan Katz] and PFT Commenter. They delivered the show they promised.”
Katz and the pseudonymous PFT Commenter host the popular Barstool podcast “Pardon My Take.”
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