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• ESPN's Bodenheimer Thinks Big For Local Sites; Actions? Not So Fast

  PaidContent - 2009-12-01

  ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is getting ready to launch two new local sites for a total of five across the country that could serve as the starting point for a 20-city network, ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer told Reuters at the news service’s Global Media Summit. But almost as soon...

  Tags: ESPN, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Networking, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Advertising, Local, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Disney, David Kaplan

• Fox Sports Net Quietly Rolls Out A Dozen Local Sites

  PaidContent - 2009-11-19

  While ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) have been grabbing headlines for their online local sports expansions, Fox Sports Net has been rolling out the soft launch of a dozen local sites over the past couple of weeks. So quietly that it took an alert reader to clue...

  Tags: ESPN, Team, Comcast Corp., Site, Team Management, Corporate Communications, Games, Management, Marketing, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Staci D. Kramer

• Comcast Expands Online Local Sports Teams To Compete With ESPN

  PaidContent - 2009-11-16

  While local media outlets slash sports staffs and travel, national players are coming after fans, ad dollars—and each other. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) already has launched local sports sites for Chicago, Boston and Dallas, with plans for New York and Los Angeles in early 2010. Now Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is...

  Tags: ESPN, Team, Comcast Corp., Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, Comcast, Disney, Staci D. Kramer

• Disney Interactive Still In Investment Phase (I.E. In The Red)

  PaidContent - 2009-11-12

  Higher subscription revenue from virtual kids world Club Penguin and lower marketing costs for Disney Online weren’t enough to offset increased costs and lower revenue at Disney Interactive Studios for Disney’s fiscal year or for the quarter. The underlying reason is fairly simple as outgoing CFO Tom Staggs explained...

  Tags: Revenue, ESPN, Disney Corp., Investment, Score Center App, Operational Accounting, Finance, Entertainment, Gaming, Movies, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Cable & Telecom, Money, Earnings, Companies, Disney, Staci D. Kramer

• ESPN Readies Local Dallas Site; Outsources Boston Ad Sales To Kraft Sports Group

  PaidContent - 2009-09-25

  ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is launching its third city sports news site in Dallas on Monday as it seeks to tries to solidify its presence in major markets. The Dallas site follows the launch of its first local venture, ESPNChicago last April. The Dallas site debut is timed to coincide...

  Tags: ESPN, Dallas, Outsource, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Disney, David Kaplan

• ESPN Mines For Gold In Torrent Of iPhone Downloads

  PaidContent - 2009-09-22

  In less than a year, ESPN iPhone apps have been downloaded more than 4.5 million times—more than 2.2 million of the free ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ScoreCenter alone since its June debut. Most of the downloads are for ad-supported versions but twice in the past couple of weeks the Disney...

  Tags: Apple iPhone, ESPN, App, John Zehr, ESPN Fantasy Football iPhone App, Just-launched ESPN Radio, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Gaming, Sports, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Mobile, Companies, Disney, MobileESPN, Staci D. Kramer

• ESPN Planning UK Online Sports Portal

  PaidContent - 2009-09-13

  What’s missing from ESPN’s UK soccer package? A website to go with the TV coverage. But the U.S. network has confirmed to us it is preparing a UK sports portal to accompany the broadcasts.We reported this month that the company was hiring senior online editorial staff to work at...

  Tags: ESPN, U.K., Gleeson, Portals, Video On Demand (VoD), Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, VOD, Companies, Disney, Patrick Smith

• USOpen.org By The Numbers: 5.3 Million Uniques, 6.4 Million Streams

  PaidContent - 2009-09-08

  Aided by the holes left in a new slate of cable and broadcast partners and a full platter of weekday action, USOpen.org became the go-to site for tennis fans in search of live feeds—and it shows in the first-week numbers. Unique visitors rose to 5,352,08, up 60 percent over...

  Tags: NYSE Euronext, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Cable, TVs, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Entertainment, Sports, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, CBS, Disney, ESPN, Staci D. Kramer

• ESPN Uses Webisodes, Game Competition To Promote 'Elite 11'

  PaidContent - 2009-08-03

  ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is hoping that a virtual gaming contest and online video series will help drum up interest among teen athletes for its Elite 11 high school quarterback competition. It's the first major cross-platform push (the Elite 11 will ultimately air on ESPNU) for the company's high school...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, Personal Technology, Advertising, Entertainment, Gaming, Companies, Disney, Tameka Kee, The Walt Disney Co.

• ESPN Web Overhaul About Done; 'Less Is More' Design Aimed At Advertisers

  Content Next - 2008-12-16

  ESPN.com's year-long revamp is finally ready today and set for its formal debut on January. Aside from emphasizing video and smarter search, as execs have said over the past few months in previews, execs at the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) sports unit tells the NYT that the site's over-arching...

  Tags: ESPN, Web, Advertiser, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Broadband, Companies, Disney, Entertainment, Sports, Media, Magazines, TV, Cable & Telecom, David Kaplan, The Walt Disney Co.