sportsbusinessjournal.com - 11/3/2009
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By JOHN OURAND Staff writer Jed Drake was milling around before an industry dinner in New York City late last month when he spied NBC Universal’s Dick Ebersol across the room. Drake, ESPN’s senior vice president and executive producer, made a quick dash for Ebersol, remarking on the ...
usatoday.com - 11/6/2009
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usatoday.com —
Comcast, the USA's largest cable TV operator, made
a surprise (and unsuccessful) takeover bid for ESPN parent...
Disney in 2004 in hopes of creating the world's biggest media company. If it can get NBCU, the General Electric division that includes NBC ...
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Could Comcast/NBC rival ESPN?
hardballtimes.com - 11/3/2009
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hardballtimes.com —
When I started writing ShysterBall in the spring
of 2007, the idea was to give me a...
place to be where I could escape the stress and unpleasantness of my legal career, if only for the briefest of moments. As time went on, it began to consume more and more of my waking hours and, in all honesty, ...
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Programming Note
unprofessionalfoul.com - 10/29/2009
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unprofessionalfoul.com —
South Africa, no its not is it. How
do you prepare for a World Cup on your...
home turf if you are South Afirca? You go to Brazil and Germany of course. Bafana Bafana have decided to hold 4 training camps abroad next April before the start of the World Cup in June. They will train for FOUR ...
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South Africa Say “No Thanks” To Home Advantage
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... The Sports Business Journal's John Ourand talks with the ESPN official who's responsible for heading up the network's efforts to televise next year's World Cup from South Africa. ...
ESPN Reveals Details On World Cup Coverage
TheOriginalWinger.com —
... “It’s not unlike when the Olympics goes to a place like China, and you want to fully capture everything that is part and parcel of that culture”.“Jed Drake was milling around before an industry dinner in New York City late last month when he spied NBC Universal’s Dick Ebersol across the room. Drake, ESPN’s senior vice president and executive producer, made a quick dash for Ebersol, remarking on the way, “I have to commiserate with him.” Drake could sympathize with Ebersol because he is basing much of ESPN’s coverage of next year’s FIFA World Cup on Ebersol’s wildly successful ...
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