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PM Roundup: Filing From the Bathroom
Published 3/4/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... TV news guy in New York “bends over backward” to help ESPN with Cornell hoops footage … you know how this story ends. (WBNG) ...

Brendan O'Reilly Is Not Happy With Sports Center's Producers
Published 3/4/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... A reader sent me this link and it took me a few seconds to figure out what it was, but this is a post from Brendan O'Reilly (left) who is part of a two-man Sports team on WBNG-TV in Binghamton, New York. Brendan had a copy of Cornell winning the Ivy League and apparently ESPN was relentless in it's pursuit of the clip for Sports Center. Brendan isn't exactly happy with ESPN the day after..... ...

Turn on the sarcasm font
Published 3/4/2008 by Jeff Zillgitt at Sports Scope
... . ESPN wanted video of Cornell's big win. They wanted it badly. And they went to O'Reilly, who in turn wrote a letter to ESPN in his blog :"Thanks so much for calling my cellphone repeatedly on Saturday. Not sure how you got that number, but it sure was super to chat. Say hi to Neil Everett for me. He's awesome. ... Second, after I send you the video roughly 15 minutes after we get the tape back from Ithaca, feel free to call again and ask me to resend it because 'the video quality isn't the best.' No sweat. It's not like I mentioned we're a staff of 2 putting together a 30 ...

World increasingly desperate for Cornell hoops video
Published 3/4/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... alerted the world to a blog post in Binghamton that seems to take issue with ESPN's aggressiveness in seeking Cornell video, of all things, Saturday night. ...

Binghamton WBNG's Brendan O'Reilly Thinks ESPN Sucks
Published 3/5/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... Brendan O'Reilly took to his blog and wrote Bristol a nice little thank you letter. It's a little long, but I'm going to post in its entirety because it's that special. ...

The View From Sports Broadcasting’s Pinnacle
Published 3/5/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... on Saturday. Not sure how you got that number, but it sure was super to chat. Say hi to Neil Everett for me. He’s awesome. Any-who, just wanted to clear up a few things. Yes, we are happy to share the video from Cornell clinching their Ivy League title. Hope you don’t mind if we go ahead and worry about our show first though. I know everyone loves the Sportscenter, with the zany commercials and all, but we’re going to go ahead and edit our stuff first. We’re selfish that way. It goes on in a predictable direction yawn . Having worked in small markets ourself for many years, ...

Binghamton sportscaster pens ESPN a nice blog letter
Published 3/5/2008 by PostmanR at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... comes this nice letter penned to the WWL from Brendan O’Reilly, a sportscaster in Binghamton, NY for WBNG. It seems ESPN kept calling his cell phone Saturday. And he was busy. ...

When ESPN Says "Leap," You Say "How High A Cliff?" [Cornell Red Raiders]
Published 3/5/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... We had an old friend who worked at a local television station in Illinois, and he always said the worst part of his job was when something important enough happened locally that the national network affiliate took notice. They would be demanding and gruff and generally unreasonable, acting like the local station was full of hayseeds and slack-jaws. So it didn't surprise us when a Binghamton station had a similar problem with ESPN. ...

Dear ESPN...
Published 3/7/2008 at PuckUpdate
... Just a quick item. It's not even an item, really. Do you know that upstate New York sports anchor who took ESPN to task for bugging him for video? ...

Start the Bidding!
Published 3/7/2008 by Norlander at College Hoops Journal
... We’ll be carving a few more names into the Tournament tree over the next two days. So here’s where SportsCenter will be berating local affiliates for floor-storm footage. (We can only prey that Kenny George’s presence is matched up with some dwarf in the first round. How glorious that would be.) ...