Finebaum Signs With ESPN, SEC Network Audience For NBA Conf. Semis Down ESPN Layoffs Reportedly In "Low Hundreds" ESPN Has First Mass Layoffs In Years "30 For 30" To Feature Pistons' Bad Boys Spurs-Grizzlies Game 1 Draws 3.9 Overnight ESPN Hosted Brainstorming Event ESPN, USTA Finalize 11-Year Deal For U.S. Open Pepper Returns To TV With ESPN ESPN's Skipper Welcomes Competition
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Paul Finebaum Inks Radio, TV Deal With ESPN Featuring SEC Network Simulcast
Published May 22, 2013ESPN," according to Rachel Bachman of the WALL STREET... ...igned "a five-year contract," but "neither he nor ESPN would give financial details. ...i-tiered platform will include a radio program on ESPN networks, 100 televised appearances annually on ESPN and a TV simulcast of his radio show on the ESPN-owned SEC Network launching in August 2014.” ESPN Senior VP/Programming Justin Connolly said that F...
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ABC, TNT, ESPN See Audience Decline For Coverage Of NBA Conference Semifinal Round
Published May 22, 2013NBA conference semifinal games on ABC, TNT and ESPN saw ratings and viewership decline compared to t... ESPN saw its second-round average rating drop 16%, wit... 17. ABC and ESPN’s combined second-round figures still rank tied f... ESPN is down 11% in rating and 10% in viewership. ESPN’s drop is on the heels of the net’s highest-rate...
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ESPN Layoffs Reportedly "In The Low Hundreds," Including Over 100 At Bristol HQs
Published May 22, 2013Layoffs confirmed yesterday by ESPN will include "more than 100" at its Bristol, Conn... " However, yesterday's layoffs "will not push ESPN out of Gov. In N.Y., Miller & Sandomir note ESPN is expected to "cancel 'Unite,' a late-night prog... ram on ESPNU that started last year" (N.Y. TIMES, 5/22). In Bristol, Steve Collins reports some ESPN employees called it "Black Tuesday.
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ESPN Has First Mass Layoffs In Four Years, Though Specific Number Is Unknown
Published May 21, 2013ESPN confirmed that it will be laying off an undetermi... ESPN said in a statement, "We are implementing changes... " An ESPN source said that the figure is "a little high, bu... " ESPN "has 7,000 employees.
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Whatcha Gonna Do? ESPN "30 For 30" Doc To Feature Pistons' Bad Boys Years
Published May 21, 2013ESPN Films VP & Exec Producer Connor Schell this week... ...NBA regular season and the NBA Finals as part of ESPN's '30 for 30' series," according to Richard Deits... ...h wrote given the "previous collaboration between ESPN Films and NBA Entertainment ... Bad Boys is likel...
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Spurs-Grizzlies Game 1 Draws 3.9 Overnight Rating; Pacers' Clincher Gets 4.1 Mark
Published May 20, 2013...avericks-Thunder series in ’11, the last time ABC/ESPN broadcast the Western Conference Finals. ...and a 19.1 local rating in Memphis, making it ABC/ESPN's highest-rated Conference Final game in that mar... ESPN drew a 4.1 metered market rating for the Pacers’... ESPN HIRES CARLESIMO FOR PLAYOFFS: In N.Y., Bob Raissman reported ESPN will soon bring former Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo...
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ESPN Hosted Brainstorming Event Last Month For Its Digital Ad Business
Published May 17, 2013ESPN for two days last month in N.Y. held a “hackathon... ...ve but critically minded panel of six judges from ESPN and ABC’s sales exec ranks. ...vertising unit built around highlight footage for ESPN’s popular online Game-Cast service, which lets fa... ” The ESPN Alerts team “took second place.” ESPN “expects to make hackathons a central part of the...
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ESPN, USTA Sign 11-Year Deal Worth More Than $770M To Put U.S. Open Solely On Cable
Published May 16, 2013 by John OurandESPN and the USTA signed an 11-year deal worth more th... The move fits within ESPN's strategy of bringing championship events to cab... In recent years, ESPN has picked up rights to the BCS Championship, Bri... ESPN also produces the NBA Finals and Indianapolis 500... ...in the middle of a three-year deal where CBS and ESPN pay around $20M each for their respective package... ESPN sublicenses a smaller package to Tennis Channel.
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Dottie Pepper Returns To TV With ESPN; U.S. Open Set As First Assignment
Published May 16, 2013ESPN yesterday announced that Dottie Pepper has joined... ...l appear on "SportsCenter" segments and write for ESPN. ...her work with the PGA of America and junior golf (ESPN). Pepper said that there was "mutual interest when ESPN called, but it came with a caveat.
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Skipper Says Competition From Other 24-Hour Sports Channels Makes ESPN Better
Published May 15, 2013ESPN President John Skipper yesterday noted several br... ...o this 24-hour sports channel thing,” but he said ESPN execs "like competition," according to Mike Reyno... " Reynolds reported ESPN at its upfront presentation yesterday announced t... ...aking news, articles, video clips and tweets from ESPN talent" (MULTICHANNEL. AD AGE's Jeanine Poggi noted ESPN yesterday used its upfront to "suggest, essential...
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ESPN Will Post More Sports-Related Video On Twitter As Part Of Expanded Deal With Site
Published May 14, 2013ESPN and Twitter today at the network's upfront presen... ESPN plans to "show video-highlight clips on Twitter o... ...included sports' fans Twitter posts appearing on ESPN telecasts and a recent experiment with college fo... " ESPN Exec VP/Multimedia Sales Eric Johnson said, "We w... ant to be able to push ESPN's … content wherever sports fans are." ESPN said that the video highlights "were seen more th...
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ESPN Close To A Deal With The USTA To Move The U.S. Open Exclusively To Cable
Published May 13, 2013 by John OurandESPN is close to a deal to obtain all rights to the N.... But several sources have said that ESPN and the USTA have agreed on a framework that woul... d have ESPN pay an average of more than $60M per year for exc... ESPN, which already holds the cable rights through '14... ...figure is partially offset by a sub-license deal ESPN has with Tennis Channel. ...ing window ended last month, opening the door for ESPN.
