TMC
08-07-2017, 07:39 PM
http://awfulannouncing.com/fox/charissa-thompson-leaves-extra-fox-espn.html
There’s been plenty of speculation about Charissa Thompson potentially leaving Fox to return to ESPN, starting in January when Michael McCarthy of The Sporting News wrote that the Worldwide Leader was considering her to take over from Chris Berman as the host of Sunday NFL Countdown. Thompson somewhat denied it in February, saying she was happy with her current jobs (hosting early pregame show Fox NFL Kickoff and serving as a weekday host for syndicated entertainment news program Extra), and the Sunday NFL Countdown role eventually went to Sam Ponder, but that hasn’t stopped the Thompson-to-ESPN discussion. McCarthy wrote in late July that new ESPN EVP (content) Connor Schell wants Thompson for Mike Greenberg’s forthcoming morning show, and one of the biggest obstacles in the way (her work on Extra, which is based in Los Angeles near Fox’s operations, a long way from ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol) has now fallen, with Thompson posting on Instagram Monday (https://www.instagram.com/p/BXf01lylmVe) that she’s leaving Extra:
There’s been plenty of speculation about Charissa Thompson potentially leaving Fox to return to ESPN, starting in January when Michael McCarthy of The Sporting News wrote that the Worldwide Leader was considering her to take over from Chris Berman as the host of Sunday NFL Countdown. Thompson somewhat denied it in February, saying she was happy with her current jobs (hosting early pregame show Fox NFL Kickoff and serving as a weekday host for syndicated entertainment news program Extra), and the Sunday NFL Countdown role eventually went to Sam Ponder, but that hasn’t stopped the Thompson-to-ESPN discussion. McCarthy wrote in late July that new ESPN EVP (content) Connor Schell wants Thompson for Mike Greenberg’s forthcoming morning show, and one of the biggest obstacles in the way (her work on Extra, which is based in Los Angeles near Fox’s operations, a long way from ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol) has now fallen, with Thompson posting on Instagram Monday (https://www.instagram.com/p/BXf01lylmVe) that she’s leaving Extra: