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• 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

• ESPN's "Monday Night Football" Clobbers "The Jay Leno Show" -- And Shows Just How Beat Up Network TV Is

  BNET - 2009-11-11

  In handily beating not only "The Jay Leno Show" but all broadcast networks on Monday night, ESPN's "Monday Night Football" shows just how difficult the broadcast game has become. by Catharine P. Taylor

  Tags: ESPN, Network, Games, TVs, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Catharine P. Taylor

• 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 Asks For Skin in the Game, Goes to Paid Model for Some Shows

  BNET - 2008-11-24

  How refreshing to read this morning in Mediapost that ESPN thinks online viewers should pay for some content. The sports media mega-brand is now asking consumers to pony up if they want to watch two of its sports-debate shows at ESPN.com -- "Pardon the Interruption" and "Around the Horn." (That's...

  Tags: Consumer, ESPN, Games, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing, Catharine P. Taylor

• ESPN, BCS Deal Includes Rights To Simulcast Bowl Games On ESPN360.com, ESPN Mobile TV

  Content Next - 2008-11-18

  For most of the sports-viewing world, the big news in the deal announced today between ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and the Bowl Championship Series is the price tag—an estimated $500 million—and the apparently inexorable move of major sports from free over-the-air broadcast to subscription-supported cable. But, as we suggested here...

  Tags: ESPN, Mobile TV, Video On Demand (VoD), Games, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, TVs, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Staci D. Kramer, Broadband, Companies, Disney, Entertainment, Sports, Mobile, The Walt Disney Co.

• Mizzou Quarterbacks Chase Daniel and Chase Patton on the Cover of ESPN The Magazine

  - 2008-10-10

  2008 NBA Fantasy Preview Offers up "Best Bets", "Bust Bets" and Much More Rick Reilly on Trying to Walk Away From the NFL: Ask John Lynch it's Not Easy NEW YORK -- "Why is it that some of the greatest college quarterbacks never make it to the pros?"...

  Tags: Backups, ESPN, football, Games, MARKETING, NBA, NFL

• Max Mara & ESPN Monday Night Football Reporters, Michele Tafoya & Suzy Kolber, Team up for NFL Season

  - 2008-09-22

  NEW YORK -- Max Mara and ESPN have teamed up to dress Monday Night Football MNF reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya for the National Football League NFL regular season for all Monday night games on ESPN. For 16 weeks straight, Suzy and Michele will be dressed head-to-toe in...

  Tags: ESPN, FINANCE, Games, NFL, team

• Hiestand on TV

  - 2008-09-03

  Inside the industry One hotspot this season in the Cold War between TV networks carrying the NFL: The highlights immediately following late Sunday afternoon games. ESPN announced Tuesday that Tom Jackson and John Saunders will join Chris Berman on the 7p.m. ET SportsCenter that will become...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, TVs

• ABC/ESPN matchmaker serves up early treats

  - 2008-08-29

  ABC/ESPN programmer Dave Brown checks people's schedules to see if he can bring them together for meetings -- like Saturday's Appalachian State-LSU football game on ESPN. "We were talking with LSU and they wanted a home game," he says. "Some things didn't work out. Appalachian State...

  Tags: ABC Inc., ESPN, Games