Erin Andrews Joins Fox Sports

[DToTheJ]

After eight years at ESPN - the lowlight of it being that creepy peephole video scandal - Erin Andrews has signed a deal with Fox Sports. She'll host a new Saturday night college football pregame show, and have roles in NFL and MLB coverage.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/486645-Official_Erin_Andrews_Joins_Fox_Sports.php

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

No matter where she landed, Erin Andrews was going to get a huge pay increase.

I dare say she's now the highest-salaried woman in sports television.

In fact, I would even go as far to say that there may be no more than a dozen on-air men in the field who make more than she'll be making at Fox.

 

[TheRob]

She'll debut at the All-Star Game July 10th, as a dugout reporter.

 

[stationless listener]

1. ESPN should have known that when they help to hype up one of their employees, especially in the sports field, that they help to give her value beyond what they think she's worth to them. That's not to say she would do well at Fox or whether Fox made the right decision in hiring her but all that butt-kissing (even when they eventually scaled down her duties towards the end of her contract) she got at ESPN was just leverage for her to extend her career beyond the usual sell-by date for the ubiquitous eye-candy "sports personalities" the Big Media like to trot out to appeal to the immature male sports fans. Good work, Erin. Just don't cry too much or it would be transparent to even Stevie Wonder.

2. Will she do a Gus Johnson and do freelance work, like he has done for the San Jose Earthquakes?

3. When is Gary Thorne leaving? NBCU could use him in a major way. Besides, there is a chance that NBC could get some baseball back, depending on how the TV negotiations go.