ESPN analyst Shannon Sharpe has earned acclaim for her popular podcast.
The NFL Hall of Famer will present the nightcap along with Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson and Gilbert Arenas.
Sharp made a splash last summer when he moved from FS1 to ESPN.
He currently appears on First Take every Monday and Tuesday opposite co-analyst Stephen A. Smith.
The show will give Sharpe a daytime TV appearance, while Nightcap will be streamed nightly on YouTube to a growing fan base of more than 1 million subscribers.
“First Take'' has received critical acclaim since Sharp joined the group last September, switching over from Sharp Bayless' Undisputed.
Read more about Shannon Sharpe
On Sunday night, Sharp's Super Bowl recap show on Nightcap drew about 90,000 live viewers, according to Awful Announcing.
Those numbers are currently ahead of Undisputed, which is “struggling to reach more than 80,000 viewers” in its daytime time slot, the outlet said.
Following Sharpe's departure from ESPN, Bayless announced a new team.
Along with Bayless, Richard Sherman, Keyhorn Johnson and Michael Irving were added to the roster in a summer shake-up.
Most Read Articles in American Football
On Wednesday, February 7, the show averaged 64,000 viewers.
Awful Annunciation reports that this is the lowest number of viewers since Sharp's resignation.
Sharpe recently spoke out about his controversial move from FS1 after claiming he had “let go”.
“CBS let me go. I went on Undisputed and made it big,” Shannon said on an episode of Nightcap earlier this month.
“No argument, let me go, now look. [subscribers]. It got more subs than Undisputed.
“Look at the talent they got over there, and we got a new podcast – and we got more subscribers than anyone they got over there.”
Sharpe's new sparring partner, Stephen A., has also opened up about the controversial switch.
The feud between Shannon and Bayless seemed to come to a head in January 2023, when the two clashed over a tweet Skip posted after NFL star Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.
”[Shannon] Broadcasting was suspended that day. Then that day he came back on the air and was about to say something, but Skip wouldn't let him finish his monologue,” Stephen A. told former NFL star Cam Newton last week. Told.
“When I saw it, I called him and said, ‘It’s over.’ He was like, ‘What?’” I said, “I’m not coming back.”
“I haven't betrayed anyone's trust.
“know [Bayless]. Knowing him, I know it can't happen and you'll come back. That won't happen. you understand?
“And I want you to know when it happened, not whether I said, 'Okay.'
