{"id":604289,"date":"2023-02-03T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/outside-the-lines-canceled-at-espn-after-33-years-news-brand-will-live-on-other-platforms\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:02:00","slug":"outside-the-lines-canceled-at-espn-after-33-years-news-brand-will-live-on-other-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/outside-the-lines-canceled-at-espn-after-33-years-news-brand-will-live-on-other-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Outside the Lines\u2019 Canceled at ESPN After 33 Years, News Brand Will Live on Other Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/espn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_espn\" data-tag=\"espn\">ESPN<\/a> has canceled the linear edition of its journalism-driven news program <em>Outside the Lines<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile the weekly TV series is sunsetting, the Saturday morning news program will continue on as a digital series (including on ESPN\u2019s YouTube channel), and with branded segments on ESPN\u2019s flagship studio show <em>SportsCenter<\/em> seven days per week. Jeremy Schaap, the anchor of <em>OTL<\/em> since 2020, will continue to lead the segments.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Sports Business Journal<\/em>\u2018s John Ourand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2023\/02\/03\/Media\/outside-the-lines-canceled-linear-show.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> the news. No jobs are expected to be lost with the change.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLaunched in 1990 as a monthly program, <em>OTL<\/em> eventually shifted to a daily format. In 2020 the program returned to a weekly cadence on Saturday mornings during the NFL offseason. Anchored by Bob Ley from its inception until his retirement in 2019, the program was known for its tough reporting on issues like the NFL\u2019s concussion crisis, and the USA gymnastics sex abuse scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith much sports programming focused on live events or scores and highlights, <em>OTL<\/em> carved out a niche (along with the HBO series <em>Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel<\/em>) as a home for investigations and interviews that touched on athletics. Now, instead of airing that weekly on Saturday mornings, it will find a home on the daily editions of ESPN\u2019s TV flagship, and on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tESPN has, for a number of years, been realigning its lineup to emphasize live sports and debate programming, as those programs remain the most-watched on its linear channels.<em> SBJ<\/em> notes that the weekend morning edition of <em>SportsCenter<\/em> has been drawing nearly twice as many viewers as <em>OTL<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\">\n<p>\t\tTHR Newsletters<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p>Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com\/signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<span><br \/>\n\t\tSubscribe\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span>Sign Up<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/espn-cancels-outside-the-lines-1235317008\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Alex Weprin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has canceled the linear edition of its journalism-driven news program Outside the Lines. While the weekly TV series is sunsetting, the Saturday morning news program will continue on as a digital series (including on ESPN\u2019s YouTube channel), and with branded segments on ESPN\u2019s flagship studio show SportsCenter seven days per week. Jeremy Schaap, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,1592,83],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-604289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-lines","9":"category-outside"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}