thebiglead.com - 1/30/2009
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January’s been a fun month for interviews: We chatted with the NFL commish, Roger Goodell , ESPN Sportscenter anchor Scott Van Pelt , and last week, one of the men who will announcer the Super Bowl on Sunday, NBC’s Al Michaels . Today’s guest: ESPN ombudsman Le Anne ...
espn.go.com - 2/2/2009
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A. Smith Stephen A. Smith looks at Andrew Bynum's injury and other NBA news ALL TIME FAVORITES Life Of Reilly: Yanks, Cowboys Watch Now» ...
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deadspin.com - 1/28/2009
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deadspin.com —
This afternoon ESPN President George Bodenheimer addressed his
troops via video on ESPN's corporate intranet to let...
everyone know there's a hiring freeze, no more raises, and downsizing and discontinuation are imminent. AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM ...
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George Bodenheimer Reminds Bristol Of The Wintry ...
on205th.com - 2/2/2009
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ESPN the Magazine had at least a couple
of babes at their NEXT Big Weekend 2009 Super...
Bowl Party as Alyssa Milano and Lindsay Lohan (who of course has tremendous ties to professional football... not) were in attendance. Oh how much it pains me to ...
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ESPN had a nice Super Bowl party
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ESPN ombudswoman looks forward to watching less TV
Sports stories from Newsday —
... An exit interview of ESPN ombudswoman Le Anne Schreiber - WatchDog reader and unofficial Voice of Reason for sports TV - by our friends at The Big Lead. ...
Super Bowl-themed Megalinks
Fang's Bites —
... Now to a non-Super Bowl link, the Big Lead which has been coming through with the big name interviews, has another one with outgoing ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Scheiber. ...
ESPN Ombudsman Departs Without NASCAR Comments
The Daly Planet —
... like – getting rid of booth guests in MNF, handling breaking news in digestible chunks though live SportsCenter segments instead of through those gaseous SportsCenter Specials I complained about so much – but I would be foolish to draw a direct cause and effect link from my columns to those changes. I think I helped make the case for some changes that viewers wanted and that certain people within ESPN were already supporting. I may have added to the momentum. I hope I did. Click here to read the entire article and thanks to Jason and David of The Big ...
For Those Who Blog We Salute You - 1/30
SOX & Dawgs —
... Varitek signs with Sox, who immediately strip him of captaincy [Wicked Good Sports]
Facebook hates Bud Selig [Home Run Derby]
The New Mrs. Brian Roberts — Diana Chiafair [Oriole Post]
World Series Not A Birthright For Red Sox Fans [Rays Index]
What to call Citi Field? [The 'Ropolitans]
Your Super Bowl XLIII Viewing Guide [Awful Announcing]
An Interview with ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber [The Big Lead]
Now That We’ve Clearly Established Who We’re Rooting For… ...
Just Call Her The Ombudsmarm : Le Anne Schreiber’s Exit Interview With TBL
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... “It is time to move on, and time for a new set of eyes and ears to keep tabs on ESPN.” So states departing ESPN ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber, who granted The Big Lead an illuminating chat regarding her one year tenure as the Worldwide Leader’s in-house watchdog (h/t : Jason Cohen). ...
Actively Consuming ESPN Would Probably Help The ESPN Ombudsman [Media Meltdowns]
Deadspin —
... The dot-com I have not been a big consumer of, although I have used it to seek out information. SI.com: ESPN the Magazine? Ohlmeyer: I would classify it as I read the articles occasionally SI.com: ESPN Radio? Ohlmeyer: We have it here in Los Angeles and it was one of the things I check out when I get in the car driving. It is one of three or four choices that I have set on the buttons. Compare that, in turn, with the way Schreiber described her consumption habits. Q: What is the process for deciding what to ...
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MNF up from last year.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 12/24/2008 — ESPN concluded its third season of Monday Night Football on a high note.
The Bears' overtime victory over the Packers on Monday drew an 8.4 U.S. rating (9.8 cable rating) and 13.8 million viewers on ESPN, up 65% and 57% from a 5.1 with 8.8 million ...
Comcast/Versus To Challenge ESPN Empire NOW?
sportsbybrooks.com 1/7/2009 — SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY had some very interesting sports cable TV rating numbers today - for 2008:
SBD:
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Bowl Game Audiences Grow Eight Percent on ESPN and ESPN2
bizoffootball.com 1/9/2009 — ESPN and ESPN2 combined to televise 23 college football bowl games and averaged 2,810,000 homes (based on a 2.5 U.S. rating), an increase of eight percent over last season. In 2007-08, the networks combined for an average of 2,596,000 homes for 21 bowl games (based on a 2.3 U.S. rating). ...
ESPN Dipping Into the Sports Blog World - Kind of
thebiglead.com 1/22/2009 — You may have seen this post at True Hoop, which announced that ESPN had “partnered” up with a bunch of NBA blogs. Here’s a guess - based on other partnerships around the sports blogosphere - at how the relationship might work :
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ESPN looking for another inside critic
usatoday.com 1/19/2009 — The author and ex- New York Times sports editor has been bluntly honest in her reviews of ESPN's on-air anchors, analysts, reporters and executives. But Schreiber's two-year tenure expires this spring, said Norby Williamson, ESPN's executive vice ...
MLB.com and ESPN Partner for MLB.TV Premium, ESPN Insider
bizofbaseball.com 2/11/2009 — MLB.com and ESPN have partnered to bring fans MLB.TV Premium and ESPN Insider together as one package. MLB Advanced Media continues to stretch its partnerships and vertical growth. On the same day that they announced that MLB.com and the NHL had partnered to provided MLB.TV and the ...
ESPN and Setanta To Team Up To Beat Fox?
epltalk.com 2/5/2009 — The Guardian newspaper is reporting that ESPN and Setanta Sports are expected to team up to try to win the U.S. TV rights to the Premier League from Fox Soccer Channel for the 2010-2013 seasons.
The relationship between Setanta and ESPN is already ...
ESPN’S NEW MOTTO: “IF IT’S NOT OUR NEWS, IT’S NEWS TO US”
collegefootballtalk.com 1/21/2009 — When ESPN sniffs out a hot rumor or story, ESPN sets the blender of its various platforms to “liquefy,” whipping the thing into the biggest story that the sports world ever has seen.
And when ESPN has had no role in uncovering a hot rumor ...
The NHL and ESPN: ESPN Robbing America Of a Sport It Loves
bleacherreport.com 1/20/2009 — Wait...what? America loves hockey? No way!
If you are not a hockey fan, that was likely your initial reaction to this headline. In fact, even if you were a hockey fan you probably reacted in that way.
I'm here to tell you why America does, in ...
An Interview With ESPN President George Bodenheimer
collegehoopsjournal.com 12/2/2008 — A few months ago, I had the chance to sit down with George and discuss everything from his start in the business (as a guy in the mail room at ESPN) to his sons’ affinity for high school football. My original piece on him was a human interest ...
Fired Chiefs coach Edwards joins ESPN (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NFL News 1/29/2009
Herm Edwards is moving from the sideline to the studio. Fired as coach of the Kansas City Chiefs last Friday, Edwards joined ESPN as an analyst, the network announced Thursday. He will appear on several ESPN television and radio programs starting next ...
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