{"id":753099,"date":"2026-07-09T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:59:10","slug":"report-espn-adam-schefter-are-closing-in-on-a-long-term-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753099\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: ESPN, Adam Schefter are closing in on a &#8220;long-term extension&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Schefter has spent nearly 17 years at ESPN. He\u2019ll be there even longer.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports reports that ESPN and Schefter are closing in on a \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/adam-schefter-long-term-espn-extension\/?utm_source=TWITTER&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=Editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">long-term extension<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terms weren\u2019t included. Schefter is reportedly making $9 million annually. (And to think some folks lost their minds at Dianna Russini making $800,000 per year.) <\/p>\n<p>The new deal, per Glasspiegel, will run \u201cseveral years into the \u201830s.\u201d Schefter, who is less than six months away from his 60s, had bristled at reports from earlier this year that ESPN was eyeing Ian Rapoport as a replacement for the 59-year-old Schefter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know a lot has been made about my age this week and how I\u2019m retiring, which by the way, no fucking chance about that if you don\u2019t mind my language,\u201d Schefter said in his podcast in April, via Glasspiegel.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s still possible that Rapoport will succeed Schefter, it apparently won\u2019t be happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s current broadcast relationship with the NFL only runs through the 2030 season. But since ESPN\u2019s business relationship has the NFL owning 10 percent of the company, it\u2019s a safe bet that, when the next round of billion-dollar musical chairs ends, Bristol\u2019s butt will be buried in a Barcalounger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Schefter has spent nearly 17 years at ESPN. He\u2019ll be there even longer. Ryan Glasspiegel of Front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-753099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}