Too wild to be true? At ESPN, sometimes it's hard to tell

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Test yourself. Tuesday, ESPN was the only cable TV outlet joining the broadcast networks in this week's upfront gatherings, where networks unveil their new programming ideas to marketers in Manhattan, N.Y., and try to get them to buy ad time early. ESPN sold about $1.8 billion in ad time at last year's upfronts, reports the trade publication Ad Age , an amount comparable to Fox's broadcast ... [link]

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ESPN News and Notes
Published 5/16/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... * Fun with ESPN true or false! We often hit Hiestand hard here, but this may be his finest work yet. He takes a look at real or imagined ESPN shows, and this one’s our favorite:

Mike And Mike Are Getting The Shaft
Published 5/16/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... Too Wild To Be True? (USA Today)

ESPN Launching Year-Round Fantasy Sports Show
Published 5/16/2007 by derrick eckardt at RotoNation
... In our second of three ESPN-related articles of the day, ESPN intends to launch their first fantasy sports series. Not much is known about it other than it will premier in August, run year-round on ESPNews, and segments of the show will appear on other ESPN shows. ESPN announced this show, along with handful of others, yesterday during the television networks’ upfront gatherings where the networks unveil their fall lineup.

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