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Extensive Selection Sunday Coverage Tips off 89 Straight Hours of Analysis & Debate(Comments Off)

March 11, 2010

ESPN’s extensive multimedia coverage of Selection Sunday, March 14 — the day the 65-team field for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is announced – will serve as a tip off of ESPNU’s Tournament Countdown featuring 89 consecutive hours of college basketball discussion, analysis, previews, interviews and more leading up to the first round [...]

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ESPN Posts Most-Viewed Regular-Season Men’s College Basketball Season

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ESPN’s extensive men’s college basketball coverage – featuring 131 regular-season games – was the network’s most-viewed season ever and highest rated since 2005-06. ESPN averaged 1,049,000 households, 1,359,000 viewers and a 1.1 rating for increases of 4 percent (vs. 1,005,000), 8 percent (vs. 1,258,000) and 10 percent (vs. 1.0), respectively, over last [...]

Enterprise Journalism – March 11, 2010

Addicted to Sex
Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET, ESPN)

Tiger Woods has acknowledged he has undergone therapy, reportedly treatment for sexual addiction. Among those watching Woods’ televised statement in February was Mid-Continent University (Mayfield Ky.) basketball coach Winston Bennett. He played at Kentucky in the 1980s then in the NBA with the Cavaliers, and was [...]

ESPN Audio, USGA Agree on Broadcast Rights for 2010, 2011 U.S. Open Championships

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Far Hills, N.J., & Bristol, Conn. (March 11) – ESPN Audio and the United States Golf Association have announced an agreement granting ESPN Audio exclusive rights to present play-by-play coverage of the 2010 and 2011 U.S. Open Championships on its various media platforms. 
The deal provides ESPN Audio live hole-by-hole coverage [...]


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