The sports media landscape continues to evolve as popular personalities move to different networks and platforms. For example, Shannon Sharpe parting ways with Skip Bayless in 2023 marked a major transitional moment.
Marketing executive/former record executive Steve Stoute sat down with Shannon Sharpe for the Pro Football Hall of Famer’s Club Shay Shay podcast. Stoute brought up Sharpe’s former Undisputed co-host.
“I watched your ex-host, Skip. I don’t even understand why all these other Black athletes even go on the show now,” Steve Stoute told Shannon Sharpe. He continued, “I don’t even understand what they’re doing.”
Stoute also said, “To me, it’s so clear that he needs Black talent, athletes, rappers. He’s doing everything to prop himself up. And I know he’s getting paid over there and everybody else is getting pennies on the dollar. And I’m like, ‘Why would you do that!?'”
After Shannon Sharpe departed Undisputed, the Fox Sports 1 program hired former NFL stars Richard Sherman, Keyshawn Johnson and Michael Irvin as replacements in 2023. Hip-Hop superstar Lil Wayne also joined the talk show that same year.
“He clearly isn’t the guy,” Steve Stoute claimed about FS1’s Skip Bayless. “He needs you. Why don’t everybody leave the show and let’s watch him do it for a minute. That show would be dead, immediately.”