Kenny Mayne is out at ESPN, the popular SportsCenter anchor announced Monday afternoon.
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“Salary cap casualty,” Mayne tweeted. In other words: If your name isn’t Stephen A. Smith or Scott Van Pelt, expect your salary to be negotiated down when it’s time.
As sports TV rights costs have gone up (and ratings have gone down), ESPN has been relentlessly cost-cutting everywhere else. The company cut 500 jobs in one round of layoffs just last year, the latest of several rounds the last few years as the network concentrates its spending on a few big-ticket names and items.
Mayne, a former college quarterback, had been at ESPN since 1994, becoming one of its best-known SportsCenter and NFL studio show hosts.