For over a decade, 106 & Park was the heartbeat of Black youth culture. Art, music, pop culture. It had it all. The show ran from 2000 to 2014, creating daily appointment television that shaped trends and launched careers. So when BET decided to relaunch it as 106 & Sports with former Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, expectations were massive. It didn’t work. The news devastated one CBS Sports broadcaster.

“Had the best time working on this show, and I’m sad we won’t be continuing it 💔 for this NY girl, it was truly a dream come true to be part of this brand. I wish Cam well in all he does & I hope that everyone behind the scenes find new homes — they were truly the best! xo,” Ashley Nicole Moss, CBS Sports analyst and host, wrote on X.

The show looked perfect on paper. Announced during the 2025 BET Awards, 106 & Sports paired Cam Newton and Ashley Nicole Moss as co-hosts. Lakers forward LeBron Raymone James and business partner Maverick Carter executive-produced through SpringHill Company. 

The show was filmed at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta with a live audience. The series premiered on October 15, 2025, airing Wednesdays at 10 PM ET on BET. For Moss, a New York native who grew up watching the original, this was the dream. Then it crumbled.

The OG 106 & Park wasn’t just entertainment. It gave Black music culture space to thrive authentically. That legacy inspired the 2.0 version, which is why Atlanta made sense as a home base.

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“Filming in Atlanta made sense for this chapter,” BET’s Vice President of Unscripted Programming and Development Tiffany Lea Williams said. “The city’s HBCU roots and vibrant Black creative community added an authenticity and energy that helped define the launch.”

Here’s the thing: BET launched this show partly to reconnect with its HBCU roots after Viacom/Paramount’s acquisition diluted that identity. That ties to something similar happening right now. 

The channel just went through another corporate overhaul. After Skydance acquired parent company Paramount, longtime BET President and CEO Scott Mills departed. New BET President Louis Carr is now leaning toward redefining the network’s programming strategy, pivoting to projects like Tyler Perry’s “Sistas” and “The Coach Vick Experience,” featuring former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.

That brings us to how Newton and Moss’s show didn’t pass that criterion.

Here’s why the Cam Newton show couldn’t make it past eight episodes

The network announced in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it would not continue with the series.

​”Will not produce additional seasons of ‘106 & Sports.’ The previous season will continue to live across BET platforms,” the statement read.

The reasons behind the axing were straightforward but brutal. The show had poor ratings and lackluster social media engagement. The show was termed “terrible” by fans, according to NFL insider Dov Kleiman. The show’s late-night time slot also didn’t help draw the kind of viewership BET needed to justify a second season past those eight episodes.

Here’s another problem: the show was pre-taped. That resulted in viewers dropping off. Unlike the original, which thrived on live, interactive elements and real-time cultural moments, the 2.0 version relied heavily on prerecorded content. This meant conversations often revolved around evergreen topics, but not the kind of breaking-news urgency that drives engagement. 

To be fair, the show tried bringing back 2000s MTV vibes. But here’s the thing: even though today’s clothing styles have cycled back to the ’90s, the 2000s entertainment vibe is something audiences have largely moved on from. Will people be inclined to start watching such shows again? Well, here’s hoping (but I’m a millennial, so don’t take my word for it).

As for Newton, he’ll continue thriving in his media ventures like the 4th & 1 podcast and Funky Friday. Meanwhile, Moss is planning something “outside” of CBS, she confirmed on X, with details coming in a few months.