Archive for December, 2009
ESPN’s Weekend and Monday NFL Studio Features
ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Presented by IBM will preview the weekend’s NFL matchups Sunday at 11 a.m. featuring host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson. ESPN senior analyst Chris Mortensen and NFL insider Adam Schefter will provide headlines and league news. Sunday’s two-hour show will include reports from [...]
ESPN Regional Television and BIG EAST Conference Announce BIG EAST Network College Basketball Game of the Week Syndication Package
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – ESPN Regional Television, Inc., and the BIG EAST Conference have announced that their 2009-10 BIG EAST Network Game of the Week regionally syndicated basketball package will air in nearly 50 television markets covering 24 states. Once again, the BIG EAST Network Game of the Week has the most substantial coverage of any [...]
ESPN to Provide Extensive, Multiplatform Coverage of BCS Bowls
USC Head Coach Pete Carroll to Provide Analysis for SportsCenter & College GameDay ESPN’s college football bowl schedule — featuring 30 games across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Radio and ESPN360.com — will be highlighted by coverage of all five BCS Bowl games, including the Citi BCS National Championship Game (No. 2 Texas vs. No. 1 [...]
ESPN Regional Television Partners with Texas Bowl
ERT Acquires Ownership Interest; LSSE Will Continue to Manage Postseason Bowl Game HOUSTON – ESPN Regional Television, Inc., a subsidiary of ESPN, have announced that ERT will partner with the Texas Bowl, effective at the conclusion of the 2009 Texas Bowl. The Texas Bowl, which will continue to be played at Reliant Stadium, will feature [...]
Pete Carroll Joins ESPN as Studio Analyst for BCS National Championship
USC head coach Pete Carroll, who led the Trojans to seven consecutive Pac-10 titles and two National Championships, will join ESPN to provide analysis about the Citi BCS National Championship on the network’s SportsCenter and College GameDay Built by The Home Depot Jan. 6-7. Carroll will offer his insight on the pressure of playing in [...]
College GameDay at Rose Bowl Jan. 1: Urban Meyer on Coaching Status, Images of the Decade, Show Awards and Guest Picker Jake Olson
ESPN will air a special edition of College GameDay Built by The Home Depot from the Rose Bowl Friday, Jan. 1, at 9 a.m. ET. The two-hour program will be hosted by Chris Fowler with analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard. ABC and ESPN Radio will broadcast the Rose Bowl Game Presented by [...]
Enterprise Journalism Release – December 30, 2009
Coach Cal Cleans House at Kentucky – Former Wildcats Describe What Happened Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET, ESPN) When John Calipari became Kentucky basketball coach this summer, he inherited a roster put together by his predecessor, Billy Gillispie. But Calipari needed roster room for his own recruits, including sensational freshman John Wall, and [...]
ESPN’s Bowls Runneth Over
ESPN’s college football bowl schedule — 30 games across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Radio and ESPN360.com – continues with eight games on Fri., Jan. 1, and Sat., Jan. 2. The New Year begins at 11 a.m. ET with Northwestern vs. Auburn in the Outback Bowl on ESPN. At 5 p.m. on ABC, No. 8 Ohio State will [...]
ESPNU Headlines ESPN’s 2010 College Lacrosse Schedule with Increased Game Coverage; New Lacrosse Doubleheader in April
ESPNU will lead ESPN’s college lacrosse coverage with increased game coverage this season, including 40 men’s and women’s regular-season contests combined, in addition to one live ESPN2 and ESPN360.com game. The networks will televise 57 games overall, including 42 regular-season contests (up from 30) and 15 NCAA Tournament games across ESPNU, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN360.com. [...]
ESPN’s Highest-Rated and Most-Viewed Season of Monday Night Football
Most-Watched Series on Cable and 15 Biggest Cable Household Audiences of 2009; ESPN.com Averages 84.6 Million Page Views on Mon./Tues., Up 24% From 2008 Vikings-Bears MNF Finale Wins the Night, Nets 12.0 Rating and 17 Million Viewers The 40th season of Monday Night Football was the highest-rated and most-viewed season since ESPN assumed sports television’s [...]
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