Recent Posts Tagged With 'media'

• Versus bumped from DirecTV in contract stalemate

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 02:00 in media

  DirecTV followed through on its threat to drop Versus from its channel lineup after the midnight deadline to strike a new carriage deal came and went. A message on DirectTV Channel 603 read: "Versus is no longer available on this......

• Corso beating odds; Charles waging battle

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 02:00 in media

  A football season is always rife with comeback stories and one of the more notable for this year is the return of Lee Corso to ESPN's "College GameDay" crew a little more than three months after suffering a minor stroke.......

• ESPN fumbles in handling of Roethlisberger suit

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 02:32 in media

  We can't wait for new ESPN ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer to weigh in on the network's Ben Roethlisberger controversy. By choosing to initially look the other way on a civil lawsuit alleging the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback raped a woman last summer......

• ESPN360's Mays campaign showcased master marketer

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 02:00 in media

  The folks at ESPN have come up with quite a few clever marketing campaigns over the years, one of the best being the ESPN360.com spots featuring the late TV pitchman Billy Mays. Viewers of ESPN and other cable networks no......

• Uncomfortable Lange-uage mars Buck's first HBO show

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 17:05 in media

  One HBO show under his belt and Joe Buck's gotta be calling for the head of the talent booker who thought it was a good idea to have Howard Stern cohort Artie Lange as a guest. To call the premiere......

• ESPN's L.A. studio worthy of Hollywood premiere

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 02:15 in media

  It was somewhat fitting that ESPN threw the switch on its state-of-the-art Los Angeles studio on the first full day of the 2009 baseball season and the final night of March Madness. Monday's late-night "SportsCenter" was the first to emanate......

• Cost-cutting changing face of local sportscasts

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 03:50 in media

  Add two local sportscasting fixtures to the list of casualties resulting from the ongoing budget bloodletting at television stations across the country. Len Berman's 30-year run in the New York market will come to an end within the next 30......

• 'Potato' chips: Sunday Ticket

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 02:50 in media

  News and notes from sports media ... The crown jewel of satellite sports subscriptions is remaining at DirecTV. The NFL has extended its deal with the carrier for the NFL Sunday Ticket package through the 2014 season. New components of......

• Outgoing ombudsman leaves ESPN much to consider

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 02:55 in media

  Her two-year assignment as ESPN's ombudsman now complete, Le Anne Schreiber wrote a farewell column this week in which she recapped the sentiments of those who made their feelings known during her tenure. The result of her "search for the......

• 'Potato' chips

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 02:01 in media

  News and notes from sports media ... Dan Patrick's syndicated radio program is coming to TV on The 101 Network, DirecTV's original programming channel. "The Dan Patrick Show" will air from 9 a.m.-noon ET weekdays beginning this summer and will......

• Slash in sports ad spending sobering news for nets

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 03:08 in media

  The top 10 sports television advertisers could cut spending this year by upwards of 15%, dire news for networks already suffering from the battered economy, according to the Forbes report "Sponsors Splitting From TV Sports." In 2008, those 10 compani...

• Potato chips

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 02:01 in media

  News and notes from sports media ...TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley has pleaded guilty in a Scottsdale, Ariz., court to charges of driving drunk and will begin a five-day jail sentence on March 21. He must pay more than $2,000......

• Potato chips

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 02:01 in media

  News and notes from sports media ...CBS' Jim Nantz was named 2008 National Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association. It's the third time Nantz has won the award in the 50 years it's been voted......

• Andrews winner and still champion

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 02:01 in media

  Could this be the beginning of a dynasty? As her former ESPN colleague Dan Patrick might say, you can't stop Erin Andrews — you can only hope to contain her. For the second year in a row, the sultry sideline......

• Sexism in the booth

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 03:07 in media

  Kudos to Paul Farhi of the Washington Post for his recent article on the dearth of female play-by-play announcers in sports broadcasting. While women have mainly been relegated to sideline reporting duties, only a handful such as ESPN's Pam Ward,......

• HBO taps Buck to fill talk void

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 00:43 in media

  Fans of the Hollywood vine will remember there were rumblings a while back that Fox was looking at Joe Buck as possibly becoming host of a late-night talk show. While that never materialized, Buck will indeed get his own gabfest......

• Sexiest Sportscaster field cut to 5

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 02:01 in media

  It's award season season again. No, we're not talking about the Oscars or Golden Globes. It's ... drum roll, please ... Playboy's America's Sexiest Sportscaster 2009 competition.This year's nominees are ESPN's Erin Andrews and Bonnie Bernstein, CBSSp...