NFL Draft Media Review: ESPN
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| Sports Media Watch found this 4/29/2008 on awfulannouncing.blogspot.com [flag] |
You know it’s a bad omen for a review when I have no idea where to even start when picking apart a broadcast. ESPN’s Day One coverage of the Draft was probably only slightly behind the 100+ Band view broadcast of last year’s Orange Bowl, as the worst telecast I’ve ever seen. They missed picks, talked over picks and each other, had 40 people trying to chime in, got into fights with each ...
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NFL Draft overnights down 15%, lowest in five years.
Published 4/29/2008 by Paulsen at Sports Media Watch
... in the Draft. After all, this was not a marquee crop of college stars; there were few superstar, franchise-changing offensive players entering the league. Perhaps ESPN's decline be attributed to viewers being dissatisfied with its production. Several complaints have arisen regarding ESPN's coverage of the Draft; the network missed picks because of commercials, and some viewers tired of forced arguments between analysts. Awful Announcing summed up ESPN's performance thusly: " They missed picks, talked over picks and each other, had 40 people trying to chime in, got into fights ...
