The Rich Eisen Show will be going back to Eisen’s old home, ESPN, according to a report from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic.
The show will likely be part of ESPN’s lineup for its new DTC app, which will be called ESPN. The app is set to launch in the fall and will offer all of the content currently available across the ESPN ecosystem.
However, Marchand says there’s a chance it could land on ESPN Radio.
Eisen will take “The Rich Eisen Show” from Roku to ESPN in the fall. There is a strong possibility that the program, which runs from noon to 3 p.m. ET, could also land on ESPN Radio, where it would be viewed as an anchor for the network, but those details are not yet ironed out. Similarly to “The Pat McAfee Show,” Eisen’s program will be licensed by ESPN, meaning he is expected to maintain ownership and editorial control. The terms of the deal are not yet known.
Eisen was originally on ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor in 1996, but left for NFL Network when it launched in 2003. The Rich Eisen Show aired on DirecTV’s Audience Network in 2014, moved to YouTube when the network shut down, aired on NBC Sports Network and Peacock, then moved to The Roku Channel in 2022. Meanwhile, the audio version of the show went to SiriusXM, then to SiriusXM’s Infinity Sports Network.
The Athletic reports that with the new deal, Eisen will still be a host on NFL Network GameDay, along with calling regular season games and doing draft coverage on the network.