We’re not just in the TV business anymore … We’re going to the table as a sports media company.

Obviously we’re celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era but we’re also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It’s a bit of mixed...

Given the prolonged work stoppage and the league’s TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered.

This caps a series of comprehensive ‘new world’ agreements, clearly demonstrating that ESPN and Major League Baseball share the same vision – to serve fans through the highest quality content and cutting edge technology. Today,...

We are very well positioned to further grow NASCAR.

Everyone at ABC and ESPN mourns the loss of a great friend and colleague. Chris was a pioneer in sports television and was the pre-eminent play-by-play announcer to a generation of sports fans, … More...

This is a big day for our company. An expanded base in Los Angeles will help fuel our overall long-term growth.

Monday Night Football is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It’s a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an...

We do not have the exclusive national cable rights here.

This telethon, the NFL, our people, our media assets across Disney — are all coming together to rebuild for those who have lost so much. It’s great football, and more important, it’s helping people.

Monday Night Football’ is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It’s a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an...

We’ve acquired wide-ranging rights to fuel all of the multimedia business of ESPN that today number over a dozen and will continue to grow.

You look at the body of work that has been completed here over 36 years: the great games, the stars, the story lines, the part of Americana that ‘Monday Night Football’ is, it’s really a...

All the players get up for (MNF). All the teams watch. It’s a national showcase.

The future of our national pastime, the great national pastime, is clearly represented in these agreements.

We have tremendous confidence in the ability of the league and players association to deal effectively with this issue, and it appears they are.

Retaining ‘Monday Night Football’ simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. … We love football at ABC. It’s been a love affair for 36...

I’m only looking at it in the context of what it does for my company.

It shows you the weight this property has.

Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest of standards for everyone in sports broadcasting.

We haven’t firmed up precisely how and when we’re going to do that.

ABC Sports has a very strong legacy and sports fans understand it.

The biggest challenge is that the game is at the conclusion of a lot of football games on Sunday.

We’ve walked that balance between celebrating the past and celebrating the future, what we hope it to be.

While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

History shows that baseball has grown as TV and media coverage have grown. Our mission is to serve fans and do it in all our media.

But ESPN is the world leader, right?

It seems clear that OLN is certainly setting itself up as a competitor to ESPN. We welcome it. It will make us better.

Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and...

Changes in our management ranks presented an opportunity to redefine our structure, … Aggregating all our creative energies in one division; placing all sales and marketing in one area to sell our growing menu of...

We worked very hard to build and sustain our relationship with the league and would have liked to continue. However, given the prolonged work stoppage and the league’s TV ratings history, no financial model even...