ESPN will premiere a new daily show built around Peter Schrager beginning Sept. 10, sources briefed on the move told The Athletic.<\/p>\n
The sources, speaking under anonymity to discuss something not yet announced, said the one-hour daily program will be called \u201cBig Day with Peter Schrager\u201d and run at 2 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
It is a high-profile move for Schrager and ESPN as he joins Mike Greenberg, Stephen A. Smith, Pat McAfee, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon and Scott Van Pelt with daily programs centered on their personalities on the network. \u201cBig Day with Peter Schrager\u201d replaces \u201cSportsCenter\u201d in the time slot.<\/p>\n
During the college football season, Schrager\u2019s program will be on four days a week. On Fridays, a new college football program, \u201cBussin\u2019 with Pate,\u201d featuring Josh Pate, Taylor Lewan and Will Compton, will be on during the hour. After college football season ends, \u201cBig Day\u201d will be five days a week.<\/p>\n
ESPN declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Schrager, 44, will be joined by two or three panelists each day, mixing in ex-players, reporters and potentially some celebrity sports fans, the sources said. Schrager has mostly made his name talking football \u2014 notably at NFL Network, where he was a main component during the rise of \u201cGood Morning Football.\u201d His new show is expected to be heavy on the NFL but will also cover other sports.<\/p>\n
Some of the personalities expected to be featured on \u201cBig Day\u201d are Steve Smith, Jason McCourty, Adam Schefter, Ian Rapoport, Mike Garafolo, and others from ESPN and its sister platform, NFL Network. The program could have regular crews around Schrager based on the day.<\/p>\n
The move represents one of the biggest swings yet for ESPN president of content Burke Magnus and his top studio lieutenant, Mike Foss. Magnus and Foss have leaned in heavily on McAfee with his daily program, his featured role on \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d and, this season, \u201cMonday Night Countdown.\u201d They have also invested in Lewan, Compton and Pate.<\/p>\n
Schrager was an on-air personality whom Magnus targeted to bring into the ESPN fold. After signing him last year, Schrager has been featured on ESPN\u2019s daily talk shows, \u201cNFL Live,\u201d and has worked on the sidelines on the network\u2019s No. 2 NFL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN will premiere a new daily show built around Peter Schrager beginning Sept. 10, sources briefed on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99,1794],"class_list":["post-834227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834227","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=834227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}