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ESPNomics & Mark Thompson’s Previews

News and notes from the last bastions of the cable bundle: ESPN and CNN.

Mark Thompson has already started his new CNN job incognito, meeting with members of the quadrumvirate interim leadership team and top talent almost immediately upon news of his appointment.
Mark Thompson has already started his new CNN job incognito, meeting with members of the quadrumvirate interim leadership team and top talent almost immediately upon news of his appointment. Photo: James Manning/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
September 13, 2023

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I arrived in New York this week at a palpably electric moment. My plane touched down in a rainstorm just hours before Aaron Rodgers and The Jets were set to take the field across the Hudson river in the Meadowlands, and on ESPN’s revered national stage, Monday Night Football. The Jets season opener against the Bills was the most highly anticipated game of the early NFL season: Rodgers’ decision to don the Gotham green had become a national A1 storyline, fueled in no small part by a relentless and unforgiving New York media market, a particularly well-executed season of HBO’s Hard Knocks, and our dual national obsessions: football and redemption.