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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
ESPN's campus put on red alert by intruder as employees are told to say inside
The ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut were briefly placed on lockdown on Thursday after an unwanted visitor stopped by for a visit to the sprawling broadcasting campus. Plenty of changes have been happening at the company in recent weeks. Earlier this week, the 'First Take' studio in New York City briefly lost power. Last week, 'Around the Horn' ended its 23-year run on the airwaves. Two weeks ago, the last edition of SportsCenter in Los Angeles was broadcast. But perhaps the biggest surprise for the company in May 2025 was a visit from a black bear on Thursday. ESPN betting expert Joe Fortenbaugh was on the air for his radio show 'Joe and Q' and reported live about the warning system in place to let employees know to stay indoors. 'This yellow emergency light has been flashing all over the campus for the last 15 minutes or so,' Fortenbaugh said. 'There's no sound that comes with it. So when you don't accompany the sound with a flashing emergency light, no one knows what the hell's going on... so everyone in radio, naturally we're all low IQ people walking around: "What does the yellow light mean? How come there isn't a sound? What's going on?" WHAT IS GOING ON IN BRISTOL?! A bear is on the loose at @ESPN 🫢 And he's on the hunt for @RandyScottESPN & @garystriewski 👀 — ESPN Radio (@ESPNRadio) May 29, 2025 'We finally got to the bottom of it: there's a bear on the campus here of ESPN. It's the bear alert. So everyone on campus stay inside. There's a black bear on the campus at the current moment.' One of the show's producers remarked that the bear was spotted a few buildings away from their studio. However, the point was made that there are sliding glass doors to get to ESPN's cafeteria near the center of the 123 acre site. has reached out to ESPN for more information on this incident. ESPN has been headquartered in Bristol, less than 20 miles west of the state capitol of Hartford, since the company was founded in 1979. The network has multiple studios across the country and around the world, but a majority of their operations are based around the 1.2million square-foot, 18-building complex in central Connecticut.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus
An ESPN radio show shared some absolutely frightening information with its listeners on Thursday: a bear was located on the grounds of the network's Bristol campus. During ESPN Radio's Joe & Q program with Joe Fortenbaugh and Q Myers, Fortenbaugh talked about how a "yellow emergency light" flashing at the network campus eventually sparked the revelation that none other than a bear was present on the facilities. 'There's a bear on the campus here of ESPN,' Fortenbaugh said on the program. 'It is the bear alert. So, everyone on campus stay inside. There's a black bear on the campus at the current moment.' Perhaps that bear was trying to find who to complain to about Around the Horn going off the air? We don't know what happened with this bear exactly, but hopefully he just got some souvenirs, took a selfie with Tony Kornheiser and went back to the forest. This article originally appeared on For The Win: A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus
An ESPN radio show shared some absolutely frightening information with its listeners on Thursday: a bear was located on the grounds of the network's Bristol campus. During ESPN Radio's Joe & Q program with Joe Fortenbaugh and Q Myers, Fortenbaugh talked about how a "yellow emergency light" flashing at the network campus eventually sparked the revelation that none other than a bear was present on the facilities. 'There's a bear on the campus here of ESPN,' Fortenbaugh said on the program. 'It is the bear alert. So, everyone on campus stay inside. There's a black bear on the campus at the current moment.' Perhaps that bear was trying to find who to complain to about Around the Horn going off the air? WHAT IS GOING ON IN BRISTOL?! A bear is on the loose at @ESPN 🫢And he's on the hunt for @RandyScottESPN & @garystriewski 👀 — ESPN Radio (@ESPNRadio) May 29, 2025 We don't know what happened with this bear exactly, but hopefully he just got some souvenirs, took a selfie with Tony Kornheiser and went back to the forest. This article originally appeared on For The Win: A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus
USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus
A bear was apparently spotted on ESPN's Bristol campus An ESPN radio show shared some absolutely frightening information with its listeners on Thursday: a bear was located on the grounds of the network's Bristol campus. During ESPN Radio's Joe & Q program with Joe Fortenbaugh and Q Myers, Fortenbaugh talked about how a "yellow emergency light" flashing at the network campus eventually sparked the revelation that none other than a bear was present on the facilities. 'There's a bear on the campus here of ESPN,' Fortenbaugh said on the program. 'It is the bear alert. So, everyone on campus stay inside. There's a black bear on the campus at the current moment.' Perhaps that bear was trying to find who to complain to about Around the Horn going off the air? We don't know what happened with this bear exactly, but hopefully he just got some souvenirs, took a selfie with Tony Kornheiser and went back to the forest.
New York Times
12-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Rich Eisen to return to ESPN as part of network's new direct-to-consumer service: Sources
More than two decades after leaving ESPN, Rich Eisen is returning to the network as part of its forthcoming direct-to-consumer offering, sources briefed on the move said Monday. Eisen will take 'The Rich Eisen Show' from Roku to ESPN in the fall. There is a strong possibility that the program, which runs from noon to 3 p.m. ET, could also land on ESPN Radio, where it would be viewed as an anchor for the network, but those details are not yet ironed out. Similarly to 'The Pat McAfee Show,' Eisen's program will be licensed by ESPN, meaning he is expected to maintain ownership and editorial control. The terms of the deal are not yet known. Advertisement Eisen, 55, left ESPN for NFL Network in 2003 to become the face of the league-owned entity. He will remain the featured host on NFL Network's 'GameDay' and its draft coverage. He also calls select regular-season games for the network. ESPN declined to comment. ESPN is set to launch a direct-to-consumer offering in the fall, which will allow customers to forgo cable to subscribe. The addition of Eisen's show is its latest effort to ramp up content on the platform, but Eisen is not the only personality ESPN has tried to recruit for it. The Athletic previously reported ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro met with Colin Cowherd about a deal, but Cowherd decided to stay at Fox Sports and run his podcast business, The Volume. With ESPN in advanced talks for NFL Media, the partnership between Eisen and the network could grow. ESPN and the league have been in talks for years about NFL Media's assets. As ESPN's direct-to-consumer service nears launch, sources have indicated a deal, which has been in the red zone before, has its best chance of being completed. The addition of Eisen is considered additive to 'The Pat McAfee Show,' which is also scheduled from noon to 3 p.m. ET daily, with placement on ESPN's top channel for its first two hours. When ESPN licensed McAfee's program on a five-year deal for more than $85 million, a big part of its thinking was its reimagined app and the direct-to-consumer product. Like McAfee, Eisen figures to have prominent placement on the app. Eisen's program will also be featured on ESPN+, the network's current, niche streaming-only option, and Disney+. Eisen will not be on any of ESPN's linear networks, which include ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNews. On ESPN Radio, the network has 'Joe and Q,' featuring Joe Fortenbaugh and Qiant 'Q' Myers, from noon to 3 p.m. ET. Eisen has built a business around having a network base and licensing his talk show program, which began in 2014, to suitors. The show aired on NBC Sports Network and Peacock before moving to Roku in 2022. It is currently distributed by Westwood One across the country on radio and also airs on SiriusXM.
