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SBD/Issue 162/Sports Media
Media Notes
Published May 16, 2007
L.A. OBSERVED is reporting that L.A. Times columnist J.A. Adande has applied for a buyout. Some buyout applicants “have already been informally assured they will be accepted, but officially the paper has a week to decide who can leave” (LAOBSERVED.com, 5/15)....As part of the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s recent reorganization, the paper has told several reporters “that they will need to apply for jobs elsewhere within the newspaper” (STAR TRIBUNE, 5/15). Sports business reporter Jay Weiner is taking the buyout and has begun to take on other opportunities in journalism (THE DAILY). College sports writer Jeff Shelman is also expected to be among the “casualties of reassignment” (CITYPAGES.com, 5/16).
ON THE AIR: Mark Cuban’s HDNet will produce 15 episodes of “Sports Action Team,” a 30-minute improv comedy series that follows “a hapless team of reporters who cover the national sports beat.” The series, produced by Chicago-based Tower Productions, debuted on some NBC affils last fall following “Sunday Night Football” (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 5/16)....Online video ad network Broadband Enterprises will unveil during an upfront presentation tomorrow five original Web series including “The Fantastic Two,” a mockumentary that “follows a pair of sports fan rivals who try to outwit each other while playing fantasy football” (MEDIAWEEK, 5/14 issue).
LAUNCH PARTY: COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST’s Jeff Bell notes the Columbus Sports Network (CSN) launched March 24 and has been included on the analog or digital lineups of Time Warner, Insight Communications and Wide Open West, “Central Ohio’s three largest cable TV providers.” The net is not paid subscriber fees, meaning advertising is the “primary revenue source.” The net airs the MLS Crew, AFL Destroyers, Triple-A Int’l League Clippers, Ohio State Univ. athletics and Central Ohio high school games; it is “not paying rights fees to any of the teams” (COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST, 5/11).
NOT ON SUNDAY: The Alabama High School Athletic Association voted unanimously to deny Hoover High School from playing Colerain (OH) High School on September 2 “citing a ban on Sunday games.” The game had been scheduled to air on ESPN2 as part of the Kirk Herbstreit Ohio vs. USA Challenge (AP, 5/15).
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ON THE AIR: Mark Cuban’s HDNet will produce 15 episodes of “Sports Action Team,” a 30-minute improv comedy series that follows “a hapless team of reporters who cover the national sports beat.” The series, produced by Chicago-based Tower Productions, debuted on some NBC affils last fall following “Sunday Night Football” (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 5/16)....Online video ad network Broadband Enterprises will unveil during an upfront presentation tomorrow five original Web series including “The Fantastic Two,” a mockumentary that “follows a pair of sports fan rivals who try to outwit each other while playing fantasy football” (MEDIAWEEK, 5/14 issue).
LAUNCH PARTY: COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST’s Jeff Bell notes the Columbus Sports Network (CSN) launched March 24 and has been included on the analog or digital lineups of Time Warner, Insight Communications and Wide Open West, “Central Ohio’s three largest cable TV providers.” The net is not paid subscriber fees, meaning advertising is the “primary revenue source.” The net airs the MLS Crew, AFL Destroyers, Triple-A Int’l League Clippers, Ohio State Univ. athletics and Central Ohio high school games; it is “not paying rights fees to any of the teams” (COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST, 5/11).
NOT ON SUNDAY: The Alabama High School Athletic Association voted unanimously to deny Hoover High School from playing Colerain (OH) High School on September 2 “citing a ban on Sunday games.” The game had been scheduled to air on ESPN2 as part of the Kirk Herbstreit Ohio vs. USA Challenge (AP, 5/15).
