Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon have signed new contracts with ESPN that may hold them as hosts of “Pardon the Interruption” not less than by the present’s twenty fifth anniversary subsequent fall, the community introduced Tuesday.
The earlier contracts for each males had expired in August. The brand new ones are described in an ESPN information launch as “multiyear.”
The previous Washington Submit sports activities writers have hosted “PTI” because it debuted Oct. 22, 2001. The fast-paced sports activities debate present has received the Sports activities Emmy Award for every day studio present thrice (2009, 2016 and 2019) and is ESPN’s most-viewed every day studio program.
“Tony and Mike have made PTI right into a singular success story and each bit as related at this time because it has ever been,” Burke Magnus, ESPN’s president of content material, stated in a information launch. “Their data and opinions are as sensible and powerful as ever, they usually stay every day appointment viewing for sports activities followers.”
Kornheiser and Wilbon will proceed their every day section for the three p.m. Pacific version of SportsCenter and Wilbon may also stay part of ESPN’s NBA protection.
The information got here months after “Across the Horn,” one other long-running sports activities debate present on ESPN, aired its last episode. That present ran from November 2002 till this previous Might and was paired with “PTI” on weekday afternoons, with “Horn” at 2 p.m. Pacific and “Interruption” at 2:30 p.m.
ESPN additionally introduced an extension with Rydholm Tasks Inc. to proceed producing “PTI.” Govt producer Erik Rydholm and coordinating producer Matt Kelliher have been with the present for the reason that starting.
Rydholm was additionally the manager producer of “Across the Horn” in addition to the previous ESPN exhibits “Extremely Questionable” and “The Dan Le Batard Present With Stugotz.”
