Bias seen in silencing 'MNF' sideline reporters

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  "Referring to herself, Kolber, Tafoya and Fox sideline reporter Pam Oliver, she says "no one accused the four of us for being on television for our looks or figures""

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KREMER UNLOADS ON ESPN
Published 2/13/2008 by Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk.com
Former ESPN reporter Andrea Kremer, who now works the sidelines for NBC’s Sunday night package, has some choice words for her former employer in the wake of the decision to relieve Michele Tafoya and Suzy Kolber of their sideline-reporting duties. Said Kremer to Michael Hiestand of USA Today :  “They were doing the role that ESPN asked them to do — more feature-ish stuff — and they were fired for it?  If you don’t like them in that role, change their role.  Don’t humiliate them like that.  The way [ESPN] handled it was terrible, just disrespectful. . . .  They treated two ...

Andrea Kremer Blasts ESPN for Changing Roles of Suzy Kolber, Michele Tafoya
Published 2/13/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: NFL Media Watch, ESPNAndrea Kremer, who works as the sideline reporter during NBC Sunday Night Football games, isn't happy with the way ESPN treated Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya, whose roles on Monday Night Football will apparently be downsized in 2008. Kremer tells USA Today: "They were doing the role that ESPN asked them to do - more feature-ish stuff - and they were fired for it? If you don't like them in that role, change their role. Don't humiliate them like that. The way (ESPN) handled it was ...

NBC hammers ESPN on sideline reporter moves
Published 2/13/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
Wow, check out this Grade A network TV trash talk, courtesy of NBC's Andrea Kremer and its always outspoken Fred Gaudelli. It appears some of the people who bring you your Sunday night NFL games are unimpressed with some of the people who bring you your Monday night NFL games. And we are all the better for getting to read (and write) this stuff. My take? I have nothing against Michele Tafoya and Suzy Kolber, but I certainly support ESPN's apparent plans to pare down the number of people talking on MNF. (My favorite part of this story is ...

Andrea Kremer on MNF Shakeup: “The way (ESPN) handled it was terrible, just disrespectful”
Published 2/13/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Former ESPN standout Andrea Kremer - last seen giving her best grin-and-glare to Tom Brady - offered the harshest critique of her old employer since TJ Simers in a revealing interview with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand. (Aside: We’ve hammered Hiestand in the past for being soft in his media column, but he really came to play today. He even mentioned the whole Clemens-ESPN the Weekend mess we talked about Monday … and there’s a Le Anne Schreiber reference.) Kremer, who has a pretty cool background - ...

Flipping through Wednesday's USA TODAY
Published 2/13/2008 by Erick Smith at Sports Scope
... after a 6-14-1 start. USA TODAY's Mike Hiestand looks at the controversy of ESPN limiting the role of sideline reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya. The first deposition in Lloyd Lake's case against Reggie Bush ...

Andrea Kremer Is Not Happy About The Sideline Reporter "Firings" At ESPN
Published 2/13/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... that. These women don't have to prove themselves anymore."No matter how you feel about Joe Theismann, Suzy Kolber, and Michele Tafoya they way they learned about their firings/"reduced roles" was pretty crappy. There's really no other way to describe it but unprofessional and I think Kremer is pretty dead on with her assessment of ESPN. It's unfortunate when anyone gets fired but it has to be even more unfortunate when you find out through the media. Bias seen in silencing 'MNF' sideline reporters (USA Today)

Andrea Kremer Blasts ESPN For MNF Demotions
Published 2/13/2008 by Signal to Noise at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... for finding this USA TODAY piece by its sports media columnist, Michael Heistrand , in which NBC’s Sunday Night Football sideline reporter Andrea Kremer and producer Fred Gaudelli take shots at ESPN for cutting back the roles of sideline reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya on Monday Night Football next year. It’s worth noting that both Kremer and Gaudelli worked for ESPN before heading to NBC, but they take the Four-Letter to task — Kremer saying that the network’s demotion of Kolber and Tafoya sets back women, with Gaudelli adding that it’s more proof of ESPN ...

Daily Links: And I’d Do it Again!!
Published 2/14/2008 by Bassett at thejetsblog.com
... no regrets about destroying Spygate tapes. Belichick was taping since 2000, but claims he misinterpreted … classic. Patriots WR Kelley Washington will be hitting the market. Is former Carolina G Mike Wahle set on Seattle? Marty Booker wants to return to Chicago. DET DT Shaun Rogers landed on KC Joyner’s list of most overrated players in 2007 (ESPN Insider). Cougar Eyes Kremer talks about how ESPN is ruining “MNF”.

Big names.
Published 2/22/2008 by Paulsen at Sports Media Watch
... ." Clemens was supposed to host ESPN the Weekend, with NFL player Donovan McNabb . Andrea Kremer : The one-time ESPN reporter, now working for NBC Sunday Night Football , blasted her former employer after Monday Night Football sideline reporters Michele Tafoya and Suzy Kolber were demoted. In an interview with USA Today , Kremer chided ESPN for " ...