| | The Daily Insider
Afternoon News & Headlines
Thursday, August 7, 2003
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| • | Foot Locker Today Reports Q2 ’03 Sales Up 3.4% Over Year Ago Period |
| • | Ratings For Live Editions Of “SportsCenter” In Q3 Up 18% Over Q3 ‘02 |
| • | A’s Today Announce Five-Year Extension To Agreement With Tickets.com |
| • | Wizards To Move Training Camp From Wilmington, NC, To Charleston, SC |
| • | Eagles Cheerleaders To Host Party, Fashion Show Tonight To Launch Calendar |
| • | Buzzer Beaters/Tonight’s Events/Channel Surfing/In Other News/The Daily Stat |
FOOT LOCKER TODAY REPORTS Q2 ’03 SALES OF MORE THAN $1.1B
FootLocker, in anticipation of its Q2 ’03 earnings announcement August 21, todayreported sales for the 13-week period ended August 2 of $1.122B, a 3.4%increase over $1.085B in the year ago period. Comparable store sales for the same period decreased 4.4%. For the 26-week period ended on the samedate, sales of $2.249B also represented a 3.4% increase from $2.175B in theyear ago period. However, comparablestore sales decreased only 3.5% (Foot Locker).
ESPN’S “SPORTSCENTER” EXPERIENCING SUSTAINED GROWTH
ESPN today reports that Q3 Nielsen ratings (June30-August 3) for live broadcasts of “SportsCenter” were up 18% over the yearago period. Overall, including liveeditions and re-airs, the program was up 19% during the quarter. In the previous quarter, the program was up8% for live telecasts, and up 7% overall. The previous 12 months ended August 3 saw a 17% ratings increase for liveeditions of “SportsCenter,” and a 13% jump among all presentations (ESPN).
A’S TO USE TICKETS.COM THROUGH ’09 FOLLOWING EXTENSION
The A’s today announced afive year-extension of their partnership with Tickets.com through the ’09season, opting to renew the agreement one year before their contractexpired. Under the agreement, the A’swill add the Tickets.com Access Control functionality, which produces uniquelyidentifiable bar codes on each ticket (A’s).
BUZZER BEATERS
The Wizards today announced that the team will hold training campin Charleston, SC, at the College of Charleston, marking the team’s firsttraining camp in SC. The Wizards hostedtraining camp in Wilmington, NC, the past three seasons (Wizards).
YES Network today announced that Yankees games in Julyaveraged a 3.1 Nielsen rating (YES Network).
SpikeTV today announced that the opening game of the current SlamBall season onMonday night earned a 2.4/ (604,000 HHs) Nielsen cable rating in the male 18-34demographic (Spike TV).
TheECHL today announced that it has signed a three-year agreement with J. PattonSports Marketing to be the exclusive provider of hologram tags and stickers forECHL and team merchandise. The tags andstickers serve as product authentication (ECHL).
TheHurricanes yesterday unveiled the official logo for the ’04 NHL Entry Draft,which will be held June 25-26, 2004 at the RBC Center (Hurricanes).
Ceridiantoday announced an agreement with Minnesota Sports & Entertainment toprovide human resource services to the organization via its Web-enabled suiteof solutions, including payroll and tax filing (Ceridian).
U.S.ski areas tallied a record 57.6 million skier/snowboarder visits during the’02-03 season, besting the ’01-02 total of 57.3 million visits (National SkiAreas Association).
TONIGHT’SEVENTS
TheChicago chapter of the National Sports Marketing Network will host a paneldiscussion, “The Business of Golf,” from 6:00-9:00pm CT at the W HotelLakeshore. Golfweek magazine SeniorWriter Jeff Rude will moderate a panel that includes LaSalle BankVP/Sports Marketing Scott Cassin, Western Golf Association TournamentDir John Kaczkowski, Chicago District Golf Association Exec Dir RobertMarkionni and 361 Chicago VP & Management Dir Nick Paul.
TheEagles Cheerleaders will unveil their ‘03-04 Lingerie Calendar at the team’sNovaCare Complex with a cocktail party at 6:30pm ET, followed by a lingeriefashion show at 7:30pm.
CHANNELSURFING
ESPN2will air “The Sports Reporters Primetime”at 7:00pm ET.
ESPNwill air preseason Giants-Patriotsat 8:00pm ET.
ESPN2will air WNBA Monarchs-Silver Starsat 8:00pm ET.
ESPN2will air early round coverage of the TennisMasters Canada at 11:00pm ET.
ESPNClassic’s “SportsCentury” will profile PeteMaravich at 8:00pm ET.
LakersF Karl Malone, former Bulls GM Jerry Krause, Jaguars DE Hugh Douglas, surfer Laird Hamilton and LL Cool J are scheduled to appear on FSN's “BDSSP.”
Motocrossrider Carey Hart will be on CBS’ “Late Show” with David Letterman at 11:35pm ET.
A&E’s“Biography” will profile Carolyn Jonesat 8:00pm ET.
E!’s“True Hollywood Story” will profile BenAffleck and Matt Damon at 8:00pm ET.
ABC willair its “50th AnniversaryBlooper Celebration” at 8:00pm ET.
VH1will air the 100 Sexiest Artists,with Nos. 60-41 at 8:00pm ET and Nos. 40-21 at 9:00pm ET.
HEADLINERS
Hereare tonight’s headline guests on the following talk shows:
| “Late Show” | Brittany Murphy |
| “The Tonight Show” | Megan Mullally |
| “The Late Late Show” | Bob Saget |
| “Late Night” | LL Cool J |
| “Jimmy Kimmel Live” | Adam Rodriguez |
TODAY’S ARTICLES OF INTEREST
TheINDIANAPOLIS STAR’s Mark Montieth offers a Q&Awith Pacers Sports & Entertainment President Donnie Walsh, andwrites, “Walsh’s transition is unique. He’s under no pressure from ownership, he has no health problems and hehas no immediate plans to retire. Yethe’s voluntarily turning over control of the basketball operations to [Larry]Bird, putting him in charge of drafts, trades, free agency, scouting andcoaching hires, because he believes it’s a good long-term move for thefranchise” (INDIANAPOLIS STAR).
SeeThe Daily Insider’s Articles OfInterest for more sports business-related links.
TODAY’S TEASER…
SportsBusiness: Whichof the following MLB teams has experienced the largest increase in averageattendance in ‘03?
- Angels
- Expos
- Marlins
- Reds
IN OTHERNEWS…
TheAP reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s announcement that he will runfor Governor of CA “drew the second-highest rating of the year” for NBC’s “TheTonight Show,” earning a 6.9/17 Nielsen overnight rating. Only Katie Couric’s guest hostingappearance in May drew a larger overnight (AP,8/7).
THE DAILY STAT: BILLBOARD CHARTS
Thefollowing lists Billboard Magazine’s top-selling CDs for the week ending August3 (BILLBOARD.com, 8/7):
| RK | ALBUM | ARTIST | LABEL |
| 1) | Bad Boys II | Soundtrack | Bad Boy |
| 2) | Now 13 | Various Artists | Universal/EMI/Zomba/Sony |
| 3) | Dangerously In Love | Beyonce | Columbia |
| 4) | Fallen | Evanescence | Wind-up |
| 5) | Jackpot | Chingy | Disturbing Tha Peace |
| 6) | LSG2 | LSG | Elektra |
| 7) | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 50 Cent | Shady/Aftermath |
| 8) | Chapter II | Ashanti | Murder Inc./Def Jam |
| 9) | Moodring | Mya | A&M |
| 10) | Come Away With Me | Norah Jones | Blue Note |
…TODAY’S ANSWER
Marlins – The team’s average home attendance this season of14,734 represents a 46.8% increase over their ’02 season-ending average of 10,038.
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