Hannah Storm heading to ESPN morning

The Era Of Hannah Storm's Sports Center Will Blow (In) Soon [Espn]

Posted 5/12/2008 on Deadspin

On Saturday, SI.com's Richard Deitsch revealed that ESPN was plopping long-time sports-and-news talking head Hannah Storm into the new morning slot for Sports Center. Tomorrow, ESPN will make the formal announcement at upfront presentations, the big-snazzy press conference done to get the advertisers all riled up. This is an interesting move by the WWL on a couple of fronts: first, it's ...

ESPN to add Hannah Storm, U.S. Open tennis

Posted 5/12/2008 on Watchdog

A couple of ESPN related developments from during my weekend in hiding. Before heading to Ann Arbor for his fellowship, Deitsch apparently still has some reporting to do. Here he informs us Hannah Storm will front a new morning edition of SportsCenter. This is expected to be announced at Tuesday morning's upfront presentation, taking away the surprise element. I guess I'll still go for ...

Hannah Storm To Head Revamped SportsCenter

Posted 5/11/2008 on SPORTSbyBROOKS

The latest comeback in sports now belongs to ESPN’s Hannah Storm . Storm, who has been with THE EARLY SHOW on CBS, will join ESPN as part of a morning edition of SPORTSCENTER, her first sports assignment since leaving NBC’s sports department in 2002. (more…) Share This

An End To Seven Hours Of The Same SportsCenter Re-Run

Posted 5/11/2008 on Signal to Noise

Most wheeling and dealing media fun has to do with the print or online writing end of things, which is why I don’t have a huge media section of posts despite knowing TV journalism. However, this is worth noting, and plenty of others already have, although Sports Media Watch was first to hit my RSS reader with it: SI’s Richard Deitsch writing that Hannah Storm will be going to ...

Hannah Storm, Coming To An ESPN Morning Show Near You

Posted 5/11/2008 on Awful Announcing

(posted by One More Dying Quail) Two thoughts immediately ran through my head after seeing this story about Hannah Storm (via The Big Lead 's Patrick Imig): 1) Why didn't ESPN have a morning SportsCenter already? You could probably argue that not enough happens overnight to create an entirely new show the next day, but local TV stations don't just rerun the 11 o'clock news the following ...

Report: Storm watch at ESPN

Posted 5/10/2008 on SPORTS COUCH POTATO

Hannah Storm is reportedly returning to a regular sports gig as co-anchor of a new morning edition of "SportsCenter" in the works at ESPN. According to SI.com , Storm's hiring will be announced Tuesday at the network's upfront presentation. An ESPN spokesman declined to comment to SI.com. The first full-time sportscaster at CNN, Storm — daughter of former pro basketball executive ...

Your New “SportsCenter” Morning Host

Posted 5/10/2008 on Can't Stop The Bleeding

The following is taken from Sports Illustrated ’s Richard Deitsch. I don’t know if Albert Belle was available for comment, but I suspect he’s a “Good Morning America” kinda guy, anyway. In a reshaping of the network’s signature show, Hannah Storm is joining ESPN as the co-anchor of a new SportsCenter morning edition, SI.com has learned. The formal ...

Hannah Storm to Anchor ESPN SportsCenter

Posted 5/10/2008 on FanHouse

Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated reports that ESPN has hired Hannah Storm as a new SportsCenter anchor, signaling that the Worldwide Leader is revamping the image of the show that has defined the network for nearly three decades. According to Deitsch, Storm will anchor a morning version of SportsCenter , and ESPN will bolster its morning broadcasts with original content, rather than ...

SportsCenter to go live from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 11

Posted 5/13/2008 on Watchdog

I am overcome with guilt about not blogging today. Sorry. I was at the ESPN Upfront early this morning, after which I had a nice chat with Hannah Storm. The biggest news to come out of the event is the new, live morning and early afternoon SportsCenters that will debut Aug. 11. There will be nine separate, one-hour shows from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., with co-anchors working three-hour ...

Hannah Storm: Hot Reporter

Posted 5/13/2008 on RightFielders Women in Sports

Meet Hannah Storm, former Early Show co-host and now ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor. See photos, video and a biography of Hannah below. Hannah Storm ESPN announced this morning that Hannah Storm will be part of a newly revamped SportsCenter lineup that will debut in August. She will anchor the 9:00 AM to noon slot and other [...]

Interlude: Lovely

Posted 5/12/2008 on on 205th magazine: Stuff Guys Like. [Pop Culture For Men]

NFL: T.O. will make sitcom debut alongside Flavor Flav TRACK: Texas girl wins track team championship by herself CBB: O.J. Mayo denies claims he took gifts at USC CBB: Two Kentucky players decide to transfer MLB: San Diego hurler Maddux notches 350th career win INDYCAR: Dixon takes Indy 500 pole; Ganassi teammate Wheldon takes 2nd NHL: Europeans in NHL on decline, survey says TV: Hannah Storm to

SportsCenter to air live in the mornings starting August 11

Posted 5/14/2008 on SportFiends

Starting on August 11th ESPN will be airing live SportsCenter episodes in the morning from 6 a.m. until 3 p.m. I really like this move . You have the opportunity to get any new updates in the morning and it is a nice change of pace from watching the same SportsCenter from the night before over and over again. Award-winning newscaster, Hannah Storm will be joining the sportcenter team. ...

Upcoming S2N Experiment: Notes On The New Morning SportsCenter

Posted 5/14/2008 on Signal to Noise

Yes, this announcement is for something more than a few months away, but I figure it would make for an interesting exercise and blog post down the road, so I’m gonna put it out there now. We’re all good and familiar with the recent announcement about Hannah Storm coming to Bristol to host a real live morning SportsCenter; Awful Announcing has the notes from yesterday that ...

John Skipper wants you to watch ESPN in the a.m.

Posted 5/14/2008 on Watchdog

In the post below, I type impressive quantities of words from Hannah Storm. In this post, I do the same with her new boss, John Skipper, ESPN's grand poobah of content and one of the people with the most power over the sports stuff you see on TV. Skipper is from North Carolina (and sounds like it), but he once lived in Huntington briefly. No, he was not a Newsday paper boy. Click ...

Hannah Storm's daughters like their NCAA brackets

Posted 5/14/2008 on Watchdog

Hannah Storm looks in this picture as if she is silently pleading to the camera, "Please, get me out of here and back to sports." Now she is. ESPN has hired her to host three of the nine new hours of live SportsCenters that will be seen from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Aug. 11. I'm too lazy to write a coherent story on this subject, as Deistch did today. So I'm just going to throw ...

The Morning Skate for Monday, May 12th

Posted 5/12/2008 on Four Habs Fans

Bullet points for what you missed while dreaming of the return of Hannah Storm to the sports world ... Ho hum , Pens win ; Despite my elation yesterday , Fuckbeiro only gets a fine . Now I'm depressed. Is it October yet?

Case of the Mondays

Posted 5/12/2008 on Friends of the Program

We use the same joke as the fat middle-aged data entry clerk in your office when you ask her how her day is going (even though you really don’t care) to bring you our favorite links from the weekend. You will soon be waking up the Hannah Storm . Sasquatch former Jazz center Mark Eaton captured on film killing wild game. Lay off the sauce Laker fans What that you say? OJ Mayo may ...

Hannah Storm joins ESPN's 'SportsCenter'

Published 5/13/2008 on Other - BostonHerald.com

NEW YORK - ESPN will add Hannah Storm to its "SportsCenter" lineup in August when it will supplant nine hours of taped programming in favor of live sports news. Storm,...