Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Rachel Nichols basketball-journalism career has taken a new bounce. The longtime sports reporter is joining Showtime’s sports division, where she will work on the unit’s basketball content vertical as both a host and producer. “We are delighted to welcome Rachel Nichols to the Showtime Basketball family,” said Brian Dailey, senior vice president of sports programming and content for Showtime, in a prepared statement. “Rachel brings unmatched journalistic credibility, great familiarity with our roster and a work ethic that will take us to another level.” She has also carried some baggage.
Nichols left her previous employer, Walt Disney’s ESPN, after becoming embroiled in a controversy in which a video recording of her complaining about a colleague, Maria Taylor, being awarded a role Nichols had been guaranteed under contract, became public.
The revelation of the video spurred internal complaints and division within the sports-media giant. ESPN took Nichols off her daily basketball show, “The Jump,” and both she and Taylor ended up leaving the company.
Nichols has for the first time addressed the squabble and its causes. Speaking on “All The Smoke With Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, a Showtime Basketball video podcast, Nichols discussed the incident, noting that the recording was taken of her while she was in a Florida hotel room to work on site for ESPN’s NBA coverage, inadvertently leaving open a video line to ESPN’s Bristol, CT headquarters.
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