Archive for December, 2009
2010 Under Armour All-America High School Football Game Conference Call Replay
On Monday, December 28, ESPN hosted a media conference call with Tom Luginbill, National Recruiting Director, ESPN Scouts Inc. During the call, Luginbill shared a few thoughts on several players participating in the 2010 Under Armour All-America High School Football Game, including the state of the University of Florida recruiting class; Alabama and Auburn’s verbal [...]
ESPN ThisWeek – December 28, 2009
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men’s College Basketball: Ten Top 25 Teams in Action, including Four Facing Off Women’s College Basketball: Four Games Tip Off the New Year ESPN THE WEEKEND New Ads & Consumer Web Site Launch for 2010 ESPN The Weekend _________________________________________________________________________________ COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men’s College Basketball: Ten Top 25 Teams in Action, including Four Facing [...]
Photos: SportsNation’s Karate Kid Themed, “All Valley Video Championship”
The year-ending show, which will also Power Rank the top SportsNation moments of 2009, will re-air roughly a dozen times through Jan. 1 on ESPN2, and Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 10 p.m. on ESPN. SportsNation Dons a Dojo for Year-End Show Click here to download images from SportsNation’s Year-End Show
ESPN Radio Makes Personnel Announcements
ESPN Radio, to continue to create and distribute content and remain strong in the market place, has made a series of personnel announcements at the network and station levels. The announcement impacts the country’s largest sports radio network, and all related content created for digital platforms including live audio streaming on ESPNRadio.com, more than 100 [...]
ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes – Week 16
ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson previewed today’s NFL action. Some excerpts: On the apparent friction between Brett Favre and head coach Brad Childress this week in Minnesota … Carter: “Ultimately, it won’t have an effect on the Vikings team this season … I think [...]
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 [...]
Money, Money, Money, Money….Money!
Involved in every high-level negotiation for ESPN, Christine Driessen, is key in strategizing and negotiating multi-year, multiplatform rights agreements for some of the most prestigious sports programming in the world – The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), an unprecedented 15-year deal with the SEC and, most recently, the Barclay’s Premier League rights acquisition , the cornerstone [...]
Enterprise Journalism Release – December 23, 2009
EA Sports: It’s in the Game – Should it be? Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET, ESPN) While sports video games become more popular as they become more authentic, some college athletes allege EA Sports is profiting from the use of their images. Former Arizona State and Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller is the lead [...]
ESPN Regional Television Announces Field for 2010 Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic
ESPN Regional Television, Inc., (ERT) a subsidiary of ESPN, announced today seven of the eight teams in the field for the second annual Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, set for Dec. 22, 23 and 25, 2010, at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu. Tournament host school Hawai‘i will again be part of the field for [...]
Monday Night Football Wins the Night Among All Networks
Giants-Redskins Game Earns 8.4 Rating and 11.3 Million Viewers; MNF Wins the Night in Viewers for Fifth Time This Season Last night’s Monday Night Football game – the New York Giants’ 45-12 victory over the Washington Redskins – earned an 8.4 rating, representing an average of 8,366,000 households (11,343,000 viewers – P2+). MNF led [...]
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