{"id":781662,"date":"2026-07-24T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:03:19","slug":"ex-espn-star-trey-wingo-shades-nfl-live-viewership-after-claim-that-fired-ryan-clark-built-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781662\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-ESPN star Trey Wingo shades ‘NFL Live’ viewership after claim that fired Ryan Clark ‘built’ it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trey Wingo came with receipts as everyone picks up the pieces of the fallout from ESPN\u2019s bloodbath of layoffs this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former ESPN anchor, who was not retained in November 2020 after roughly 23 years<\/a> with the company, commented on fellow ex-ESPNer Emmanuel Acho\u2019s claim that the recently fired Ryan Clark \u201cbuilt NFL Live into the juggernaut that it is today,\u201d although Acho did credit others too.<\/p>\n

Wingo posted a graphic showing a decline in \u201cNFL Live\u201d viewership over the past decade-plus.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet your apology be as loud as your disrespect,\u201c Wingo responded to Acho, citing a remark the former NFL linebacker and ex-ESPN host made the day before. \u201cI think somebody said that once.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acho posted his controversial tweet Monday,<\/a> the same day Clark found out during \u201cNFL Live\u201d that the company would be firing him in its mass layoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan Clark built NFL Live into the juggernaut it is today (along with [Laura] Rutledge, Mina [Kimes], and [Marcus] Spears),\u201d Acho said in an X post. \u201cHe didn\u2019t *ideate* NFL Live, there\u2019s a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wingo certainly has inside knowledge when it comes to \u201cNFL Live.\u201d<\/p>\n

He joined ESPN in the late 1990s, and one of his signature responsibilities included hosting \u201cNFL Live,\u201d with Wingo helping build the show\u2019s viewership after it became a daily show in 2003.<\/p>\n

\"TreyTrey Wingo during his time with ESPN in 2019. AP<\/p>\n

Wingo pointed out that \u201cNFL Live\u201d viewership peaked in 2013 with 688,000 viewers and has not reached those heights since, having instead been on a steady decline.<\/p>\n

Still, Wingo felt the need to defend his long-standing work on \u201cNFL Live,\u201d which included working alongside Adam Schefter, Mark Schlereth, Tedy Bruschi, Herm Edwards and Trent Dilfer.<\/p>\n

Wingo\u2019s line about the apologizing being as loud as the disrespect references Acho\u2019s<\/a> comments where he insulted and later publicly apologized to Deebo Samuel for remarks about the Commanders receiver that the latter objected to.<\/p>\n

\"ESPNRyan Clark was included in the ESPN layoffs. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cNFL Live\u201d enjoyed its ratings heyday from 2011-17, and Wingo left the show in 2017 for a failed ESPN radio opportunity with Mike Golic called \u201cGolic and Wingo.\u201d<\/p>\n

The radio show was canceled in July 2020 after a two-plus-year run before Wingo wasn\u2019t renewed by the network, later moving on as the Chief Trends Officer of Caesars Sportsbook, among other jobs he\u2019s held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trey Wingo came with receipts as everyone picks up the pieces of the fallout from ESPN\u2019s bloodbath of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99,1625,3015],"class_list":["post-781662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781662","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=781662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}